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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, News |
Last month I noted that modern people are impressed by the power of technology, industrial organization, and the managerial state. The resulting emphasis on man’s power over things has led people to view the social […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Castel Gandolfo is one of the most beautiful places in the Alban Hills, half an hour from Rome by car, magnificently situated above Lake Albano. For centuries, the summer residence of the popes has been located here, but since 1934, the Vatican Observatory has been, too: it was moved from Rome to Castel Gandolfo by […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
The Husband is called to be the Head and Leader of the family; if you like, he is called to be the Priest of the family. This means that he is called to a deep prayer life that he manifests in private prayer, but also in family prayer, still more, in finding a time and place to pray with the treasure of his life his wife!
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Featured, Holy Spirit, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, Scripture |
There is an old story out of France, from around the early 1900s. It seems a young man had begun his new job in a factory where the work was known to be quite physically demanding. The young man, believing himself to be the equal of any man in the fact…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In The Phantom of the Opera, Raoul comforts Christine, singing, “No more talk of darkness, forget these wide-eyed fears.” Our Heavenly Father, who is our “refuge and strength,” (Psalm 46:1) promises us even more than that when he says, “fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Commentary, News |
Pope Francis has published a new Motu Proprio on “transparency, control and competition, in the procedures of adjudication of public…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | In the News, News |
Moving to address both a short-term financial crunch caused by the coronavirus and a longer-term history of financial scandal, Pope Francis…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Commentary, News |
There is nothing unChristian about getting angry once in a while. Perhaps one might say it gets less Christian the…
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Read MoreIt is possible that our culture is not just revealing transgender individuals, it is creating them. If so, we can…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | In the News, News |
“The world sees conservatives and progressives; the Spirit sees children of God. A worldly gaze sees structures to be made…
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Hadley Arkes: A Supreme Court ruling that “transgender” is equivalent to male and female would be the sign of a morally empty jurisprudence.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“The Mass’s Liturgy of the Word resembles history’s larger economy of salvation: just as the Father conversed with the Chosen People through the prophets, so now does He continue the dialogue with His people in the Mass’s readings.”
— Christopher C…
Read MorePeter and Marcellinus are two Roman martyrs who suffered under the Diocletian persecution, about the year 303; the first was an exorcist, the second a priest. Their cultus was so important that after peace was restored to the Church, Constantine built …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
Taxation of the Jewish people by the Roman colonizer-state was a burning issue among the Jews of Jesus’ day. The Pharisees were bitterly opposed to taxation by Rome and they bring the subject up to Jesus. Jesus points out to the Pharisees that the coin bears the head of the Roman emperor, Tiberius Caesar. “Give […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
Saints Marcellinus and Peter were Roman Christians who suffered martyrdom for their faith at the beginning of the fourth century. Marcellinus was a priest in Rome and Peter was an exorcist. (At one point in the Church’s history, exorcists comprised a minor order in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, ranking below deacons and sub-deacons.) During the intense […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | News, Nota in Brevis |
This first day of June, is apparently is the anniversary of the invention of Scotch whiskey – Gaelic for aqua vitae – the water of life – which is what the Tironesian monk John Cor at Lindores Abbey outside of Fife first called the distilled malt liquor he had concocted in 1495. As the Latin[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 1, 2020 / 02:30 pm (CNA).- It is Groundhog Day for Vatican financial reform, again. On Monday, Pope Francis published sweeping new laws governing Vatican financial dealings, setting new standards for […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | News, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction |
The Action of the Holy Spirit Presence of God – O Holy Spirit, make me realize Your action in my soul; teach me to recognize it and correspond with it. MEDITATION Just as the Holy Spirit dwelt in the most holy soul of Christ in order to bring it to God, so He abides in our […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Ecumenism and Interreligious dialogue, News |
Appeals for An End to the Violence
The post George Floyd: World Council of Churches Condemns the Violence and Calls for Justice appeared first on ZENIT – English.
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