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Posted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Holy See diplomacy, migrants and refugees, News, Secretariat of State, Vatican diplomacy, Venezuela |
The Vatican’s leading diplomat has warned that Venezuelan migrants and refugees are facing a “humanitarian disaster” as lockdowns in host nations leave them without jobs and force some to return home in grueling conditions.
Read MoreWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 28, 2020 / 10:48 am (CNA).- Howard County, Maryland, has reversed a policy that banned consumption of any food or drink during religious services, effectively preventing the licit celebration of Mass.
A county spok…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Bankruptcy, Bishop Edward Scharfenberger, Bishop Richard Malone, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Buffalo, News |
Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Buffalo, has launched a broad-based initiative focused on reenvisioning the mission of the Catholic Church of western New York “and bringing about diocesan-wide renewal,” according to a May 22 diocesan news release.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Italy, La Repubblica, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican |
The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, publicly supporting a proposal to establish a national day in Italy to commemorate the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives to COVID-19, said formally remembering the dead is important.
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Vatican City, May 28, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The Vatican Apostolic Archive will reopen to researchers June 1 after closing for 12 weeks due to Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.
The archive was forced to close to scholars the second week of March, just days after the highly anticipated March 2 opening of the files on the pontificate of Venerable Pius XII.
According to a notice on the archive’s website, the records office will reopen to researchers for four weeks, after which they will again close for the summer break until after Aug. 30.
The archives will be open only during the morning until further notice and the number of researchers allowed in at a time will be limited to 15 as a safety measure.
The online notice said previous reservations to work in the archives are considered canceled and scholars will have to submit new requests for the four-week opening.
The Vatican Apostolic Archive, formerly called the “secret archive,” is an office which preserves documents and books of historical and cultural importance to the Church and to the world. Since 1881 the archive has been open to qualified researchers on request.
March 2, with Pope Francis’ decree, access was extended to include the archives of the pontificate of Venerable Pius XII, which spanned March 1939 to October 1958, and it is the first time scholars had been granted access to the approximately 16 million documents they contain.
The opening of the Pius XII archives was highly anticipated, and researchers hoped study of the files could bring to light new information about Venerable Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II, which have been hotly debated.
Some historians criticize the pope for not making a more explicit denunciation of Hitler and the Nazis. Others point to his role in drafting “Mit brennender Sorge,” the 1937 encyclical to the Church in Germany, and the limits imposed on him by the Lateran Treaty.
Shortly before its opening, the Vatican apostolic archive had received requests for access from more than 150 scholars from around the world. At the time, a maximum of 60 people were permitted to enter per day.
After August 30, the archive said it will allow 25 people to enter at one time.
Pius XII died in 1958. His cause for canonization was opened by Pope Paul VI in November 1965, during the final session of the Second Vatican Council. On December 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI declared him “venerable,” meaning the Church has determined that he led a life of heroic virtue.
As Italy begins to loosen its coronavirus lockdown restrictions, the Vatican has reopened certain areas to the public, including St. Peter’s Basilica, though Rome remains without tourists due to closed international borders.
While it is rumored that Italy will open its borders with the rest of Europe and the Schengen area countries starting June 3, nothing has yet been made official. It is still unknown when Italy will reopen to countries outside Europe.
Posted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
Today we find ourselves in the wind-down to the novena to the Holy Spirit, in preparation for the great feast of Pentecost. What I would like to do today is to say a few words […]
Read MoreBy Thomas Craughwell | You never know what you’ll find when you go hunting around old churches. In 1876, a restoration crew was at work in the Tower of London’s appropriately named Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula (St. Peter in…
Read MoreWhile some welcome the chance to ease their financial burden, others feel restrictions are being lifted too soon
Read MoreBy Father Jordan Schmidt, OP | Sunday, May 31, is Pentecost Sunday. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23.
When I was in the third…
Read MoreThis is the first in a five-part La Croix Africa series profiling African feminists
Read MoreWashington D.C., May 28, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- The House on Wednesday evening passed legislation to respond to the mass detention and other human rights violations against Uyghurs in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang.
“We cannot be…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Free Access, News, United Kingdom |
The island of Guernsey will permit what may be the first public Masses in the British Isles since the coronavirus lockdown from Monday
The post Island in English Channel permits public Masses as UK churches remain closed appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreJune 19 is the premiere of “Uncle Tom,” a documentary on which I am the executive producer. Through interviews with black conservatives, some well-known and some not, the film asks a simple question: Why are independent-thinking blacks, who believe in limited government and personal responsibility, denounced as “sellouts” and “coons” and “Uncle Toms” by fellow […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, May 28, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- The island of Guernsey will permit what may be the first public Masses in the British Isles since the coronavirus lockdown Monday.
While churches remain closed across the United Kingdom, autho…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Latest News Releases, News |
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an amicus brief that was filed yesterday: On May 27, the Catholic League, represented by the Pittsburgh law firm Jones Day, filed an amicus brief with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to support the Dioc…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, United Kingdom |
The Archbishop of Glasgow has suggested that churches in Scotland might be able to re-open for private prayer from the middle of June, and public Masses could resume in July
The post Churches in Scotland could re-open next month, archbishop suggests appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreBy Sabrina Arena Ferrisi | NEW YORK — Nothing is small in the city of New York. Everything that happens here seems to happen in the biggest way and in the largest size — including the coronavirus…
Read MoreBy Lauretta Brown | WASHINGTON — Churches across the nation are reopening according to their state’s guidelines and President Donald Trump on May 22 called on state governors to allow churches to…
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In the afternoon 180 years ago, on May 27, 1840, the Genoese violinist and composer, who surprised the world for his splendid technique and the great innovations brought to his instrument, died in Nice, then part of the kingdom of […]
The post Paganini, Master of the Violin: Apostate or Convalescent? appeared first on OnePeterFive.
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