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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | America Magazine, Art & Culture, Black Lives Matter, Featured, George Floyd, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Baron Friedrich von Hügel was born in Germany but spent most of his life in England, having married into the distinguished family of Herberts. He was a popular spiritual writer in the Anglo-Catholic sphere of the early 20th century. One of his works, The Life of Prayer, is a short treatise that questions the assumption, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Ecumenical relations, lead, News, Pope Francis, Prayer, Sts. Peter and Paul, Unity, Vatican |
Pope Francis marked Monday’s feast of Saints Peter and Paul stressing the importance of unity in the Church and allowing oneself to be challenged by God, urging Catholics to spend less time complaining about what they see going wrong, and more time in prayer.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Fr Stephen Schumacher, News, St. Louis, United States |
Fr Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city’s namesake
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Read MoreThere is no true love without the cross, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address on Sunday.
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Read MoreIn Yemen, “an already dire humanitarian situation could deteriorate,” according to a UNICEF report, and flooding has affected 187 villages in Ukraine.
Read MoreThe Pontiff made his appeal on the eve of the Brussels conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region.
Read MoreOn June 28, Pope Francis reflected on Matthew 10:37-42, the Gospel of the day (video).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Bishop Georg Bätzing, German Synodal Way, Germany, News, Vatican, World News |
Bishop Georg Bätzing says he feels ‘strengthened’ to ‘continue on the path we have taken’
The post Pope Francis ‘appreciates’ the ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishop after private audience appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Abortion, Associated Press, Birth control, China, News, Uighurs |
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.
Read MoreItalian financier Raffaele Mincione, who worked with the Vatican in a controversial London real-estate purchase, has filed suit against the Vatican Secretariat of State in the High Court of England and Wales. The grounds for the suit—which involv…
Read MoreThe US Supreme Court today struck down a Louisiana law that required abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the majority in the 5-4 decision, although he had voted to uphold a similar Texas law in an e…
Read More“Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.” The Reverend […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
Born in Vercelli, Italy in 1085, William was orphaned at an early age and raised by relatives. At the age of 14 or 15, he went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. After his return, he decided to become a hermit and so retreated to Monte Vergine, where his holiness of life and […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Melchizedek, News |
We Catholics believe that the Eucharist is truly a sacrifice. When we celebrate Mass, God makes Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross present to us once again, allowing us to participate in it and offer it up to him in union with Jesus. In contrast, the vast majority of Protestants believe that the bread and wine […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Archdiocese of St. Louis, Associated Press, Catholic Church, News, Racial justice, St. Louis, Statues |
Catholic officials say protesters calling for the removal of a statue of St. Louis’s namesake should consider all that the imperfect man did to help the poor and the sick.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church History, lead, News, Virginia |
No one knows how many skeletons are under St. Mary’s in Norfolk, or why the 162-year-old Catholic church was built right on top of a cemetery.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Wedding at Cana |
Woman, what have I to do with thee? This question—posed by Jesus to Mary after she asks for His intervention at the wedding at Cana in John 2:4—is often cited by Protestants attempted to refute Catholic devotion to Mary. The translation above—which dates back at least to the King James Bible—has even seeped into some […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in Africa, Interviews, lead, Missionaries, News, South Sudan, Sudan |
etr Jasek is a Czech national and aid worker who was imprisoned in Sudan for over a year. Jasek, who works for Voice of the Martyrs, had been sentenced to life in prison for allegedly spying and working for an NGO without a permit. He was released in 2017.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Anti-Christian persecution, anti-Christian violence, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Boko Haram, Catholic Church, Fulani, Genocide, In Defense of Christians, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops, Uncategorised |
Nigeria has had over 50,000 people killed since 2009 due to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has also displaced over 2 million people. In the country’s “Middle Belt” – where the Muslim North meets the Christian South – Muslim Fulani bands have killed thousands of Christians.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Alternative Mysteries To The Rosary? – Fr. John Hunwicke at Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment +1
Signs – Noel Ethan Tan at Ignitum Today +1
During Segregation The Dominican Sisters Begun…
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