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Posted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | News, World News |
The Church has provided food and shelter to thousands of evacuees in the southern Philippines after Islamists launched attacks at the end of Ramadan last week.
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Read MoreBy Catholic News Agency | VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has ordered the prominent Italian Catholic layman Enzo Bianchi to leave the monastery he founded in 1965.
The Holy See made the ruling in a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Australia, Australian Royal Commission, Catholic Church, child protection, Church in Oceania, clergy abuse, News, second |
Plans are moving forward for a new national system in Australia for handling clergy abuse complaints.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | News, Pope and Holy See |
A Workman’s Inexplicable Survival after a Fall
The post Pope Recognizes Miracle Attributed to the Intercession of Charles de Foucauld appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Easter, News, Orthodox Church, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church |
Stretching the church calendar, Orthodox Easter arrived over a month late in a Romanian city on the shores of the Black Sea.
Read MoreBy Jonah McKeown/CNA. | ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida — All of Florida’s death row inmates live in the Diocese of St. Augustine. Many are Catholic. At least twice a year St. Augustine’s Bishop Felipe…
Read MoreIn the poorer corners of the globe — in refugee camps, slums and Indigenous communities — the Church is emerging as a critical line of defence against COVID-19.
This is especially true where secretive, authoritarian governments, or impoverished ones, …
Read MoreBy Fr. Roger Landry | “I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love you and to honor you all the days of my life.”
On the day of their wedding, most couples make those vows…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Flooding, Kenya, Natural disasters, News, Uganda |
Flooding in East Africa has added another challenge to five nations already fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Oceania, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand, News, quarantine, social distancing |
Catholics in New Zealand are preparing to return to public celebrations of the liturgy on Friday, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that services could commence that day with up to 100 people in attendance.
Read MoreCNA Staff, May 28, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- The Vatican has ordered the prominent Italian Catholic layman Enzo Bianchi to leave the monastery he founded in 1965.
The Holy See made the ruling in a decree dated May 13, signed by Vatican Secretary of Stat…
Read MoreA quarter-century after South Africa rose from the ashes of apartheid as a democratic nation, racial divisions still dominate the public forum. One of the great challenges facing the country’s …
The post South Africa’s Church: Still divided, but many good news stories appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Charities and Volunteering, News |
Contributions Already Sent to Some Countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
The post Pope’s Emergency Fund Assisting Local Churches in Many Countries appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read MoreAlthough the Church has lived alongside disease and plagues for centuries, her social doctrine does not directly address such extraordinary conditions. Nonetheless, it is possible to discover fundamental principles which …
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Read More“You’re entitled to your opinions but I dislike your tone.” How often we heard that … by “we” I mean Anglo-Catholics in the decades when we were resisting innovations such …
The post Why former Anglicans make the best Catholic satirists appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, World News |
Restrictions on churches in New South Wales are set to be eased after a petition from the Archdiocese of Sydney condemned the “double standards” of existing regulations
The post Church restrictions to be eased in New South Wales after petition from archdiocese appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Books, Conversation, Joan Sheen Cunningham, John Burger, News, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen |
By John Burger Joan Sheen Cunningham is the niece of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, the pioneering television priest whose body was recently moved from New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the cathedral of Peoria, Illinois. As the Catholic world awaits Sh…
Read MoreBy Aci Prensa/CNA. | SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — A Costa Rican bishop has warned that although same-sex marriage has been legalized in the country, the Catholic Church will continue to proclaim the truth…
Read MoreBy Matt Hadro/CNA. | WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report on Tuesday says that more than 40% of deaths from the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States have occurred in nursing homes or…
Read More“There is, alongside the hypotheses of biological warfare, also the possibility of a bio-psychological warfare, when trying to instill fear in the population, to control it in a more radical way,” said Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of…
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