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By Edward Pentin | The brother of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, the diocese of Regensburg has confirmed.
Benedict XVI visited his brother in Regensburg last month after…
Read MoreBy Robert Rauhut | Editor’s Note: On the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s historic 2008 visit to the United States, Register correspondent Robert Rauhut spoke with Benedict’s brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger,…
Read MoreBuddhism is the official religion of the Southeast Asian nation of 56.1 million (map); the nation is 76% Buddhist, 8% ethnic religionist, 8% Christian, and 4% Muslim. Pope Francis made an apostolic journey there in 2017.
Read MoreAl Qaeda and the Islamic State, and their affiliates, are active in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Chad.
Read MoreRetired Galveston-Houston Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza, 89, was president of the US bishops’ conference from 1998 to 2001. Retired Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Rizzotto, who also has contracted the virus, is 88.
Read MoreThe initiatives, according to the International Union of Superiors General, “form a world-wide initiative to join with those who are focusing on moving children from institutional-based care to family-based care.”
Read MoreVatican City, Jul 1, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis is praying for a group of lay people who appealed to him to crack down on clerical abuse in Poland, the Vatican said Tuesday.
More than 600 people took out a full-page advertisement in the Ital…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, Hong Kong, News, World News |
Zen said that he had “no confidence” in religious freedom protections in the new security law.
The post Cardinal Zen: ‘No confidence’ in HK religious freedom after new security law appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Amazon, Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon, News, Vatican, World News |
Following a recommendation by the Amazon synod, a new “ecclesial conference” for the Amazon region has been created
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Read MoreReading 1 Am 5:14-15, 21-24
Seek good and not evil,
that you may live;
Then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts,
be with you as you claim!
Hate evil and love good,
and let justice prevail at the gate;
Then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Cardinal George Pell, News, World News |
The Church’s spiritual mission is no excuse for bad management, the cardinal said
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, female deacons, News, Weekly Headlines, women priests |
In order for women to embrace our proper role in sanctifying the priesthood, we must be willing to abandon the adversarial position we often place ourselves in with men. Great damage has been done in the dynamic between men and women, thanks to radical forms of feminism that seek to pit men and women against […]
Father Franck Bango is the pastor of the first parish for Pygmies in the Congo Republic (map).
Read More“Both abortion and racism are part of the culture of death,” said Louis Brown, executive director of the health care nonprofit Christ Medicus. “The right to life beginning with the unborn is the preeminent social issue of our time bec…
Read More“At the same time, 334 deacons retired from active ministry and another 289 deacons died,” the USCCB said at it released its annual survey on the permanent diaconate. “As is the case with priests in the United States, there are not en…
Read MoreThe new Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon is an outgrowth of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, which was held last October and resulted in the Pope’s February apostolic exhortation, Querida Amazonia.
Read More“They are wolves in wolves clothing, masked thieves and bandits, seeking only to devour the life of the poor and profit from the fear of others,” Very Rev. Theodore Rothrock, VF, of the Diocese of Lafayette (Indiana) wrote in his weekly mes…
Read More“One decision hands the administration the keys to the death chamber by clearing the way to the resumption of federal executions,” said Bishop Mark Seitz, whom Pope Francis recently praised for his protest of George Floyd’s death. &l…
Read More“There is no institution like it which serves the poor and less fortunate,” said Father Maloba Wesonga of the Archdiocese of Nairobi.
Read MoreWashington D.C., Jul 1, 2020 / 03:01 am (CNA).- Monday’s ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo came as a major letdown for the pro-life movement in the U.S., dashing hopes that the Supreme Court would use the opportunity to strike at the found…
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