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Vatican City, May 30, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- After weeks stuck indoors, the children of Vatican employees will be able to stretch their legs, and grow in their faith, at a sports camp hosted inside the Vatican this summer.
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Read MoreBy Patti Armstrong | “I don’t go gallivanting anymore,” John Rainy of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, told the Register. The 88-year-old widower, originally from Scotland, misses his freedom that disappeared…
Read MoreBy Matthew Archbold | I’m pretty sure boasting is not an activity many saints take part in but if they did, no other saint could strut around the pearly gates asking everyone if plays and stories about them written about them by…
Read MoreBy K.V. Turley | Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431.
She was canonized 100 years ago in 1920, and a year later the transcripts of her trial were published.
It was also at this time that one of the most promising young…
Read MoreBy Stephanie Mann | On May 30, 1431, after being found guilty of being a relapsed heretic and witch, Joan of Arc was burned alive at the stake in Rouen, France. She died repeating the name of Jesus. Her family worked for years…
Read MoreDiscussions on how Camp Vincent would operate as this year of pandemic turned into summer became a moot point once the province of Ontario took the decision out of operators’ hands.
Premier Doug Ford announced May 19 that overnight summer camps would …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Joan of Arc, Mark Twain, News, The Dispatch |
To a certain extent, Twain’s novel about the young, fifteenth-century French girl and Saint remains a puzzling act of devotion from a complicated man. […]
Read MoreBy Peter Jesserer Smith | MUMBAI, India — Fear gripped India’s largest city under lockdown. With nearly the same area of New York City, and with one and half times the population, Mumbai was…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, CIDSE, COMECE, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Europe, Minimum wage, News, Pope Francis |
Catholic groups across Europe have echoed Pope Francis’ call for a universal basic wage as part of recovery plans after the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreSaint Jeanne d’Arc, the maid of Orleans, is hailed as patroness of France, their saviour, as the story goes, in the fight for their nationhood, identity, and independence against the land-hungry English in the Hundred Years’ War. The royal house of Plantagenet, which ruled Britain, claimed the right also to rule all of France, then[…]
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Read MoreBy Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON — Leaders of the U.S. bishops’ conference responded to the killing of an African American man in Minneapolis this week by stressing that the fight to…
Read MoreBy K.V. Turley | British film director Norman Stone is a double Emmy and double BAFTA award-winning filmmaker with more than 40 years of filmmaking to his name. He is also a devout Christian and a devotee…
Read MoreBy Charles Lewis | Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, immigrants and refugees, News, Trump administration |
The Washington-based American Immigration Council said restrictions issued by the Trump administration during the coronavirus pandemic are being used to implement immigration limitations White House officials have sought for a long time.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Economic crisis, News, second |
Since the coronavirus pandemic was declared in March, not everybody’s job has been relocated to their dining room table.
Read MoreCanada’s seminaries have survived the spring onslaught of COVID-19, but they’re looking across the wide expanse of summer holidays and wondering what the future holds.
In terms of academics, the professors of Scripture, patristics and pastoral theolog…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, Covenant House, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Religious Sisters |
In a May 28 Facebook Live discussion, two Catholic leaders stressed how the current pandemic is far from over and how in the midst of so much suffering they also have witnessed incredible moments of grace.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | News, United States |
The love of Christ can overcome the sin of racism, the pastor of a historic Minnesota African-American parish said
The post Christ can overcome racism, Minnesota priest says at George Floyd prayer service appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, George Floyd, Minneapolis, News, police brutality, Racism, USCCB |
The U.S. Catholic bishops said May 29 they “are broken-hearted, sickened and outraged to watch another video of an African American man being killed before our very eyes.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2020 | Free Access, News, United States |
Leaders of the US bishops’ conference said the fight to eradicate racism is a pro-life issue
The post ‘Racism is not a thing of the past’ – US bishops respond to George Floyd killing appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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