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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Anglican Ordinariate, Art & Culture, C. S. Lewis, Featured, friendship, News, Sallust, Weekly Headlines |
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” —Matthew 6:22 I’m content, at the age of about twenty-five (the exact number escapes me), to stay exactly where I am. I’ve moved precisely once since my undergraduate days. Nothing’s more futile than […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Archdiocese of Omaha, Associated Press, Boys Town, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Nebraska, News, Obituary |
Former Boys Town director Father Val Peter, who led the iconic home for troubled youth for 20 years before retiring in 2005, died Tuesday at age 85 after battling cancer.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Belgium, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, colonialism, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, lead, News, Nuns, Racial justice, Religious Sisters |
During colonial times thousands of biracial children known as “métis” were taken away and raised in Belgian institutions as the colonial power promoted a strict separation of white and Black people and systematically tried to prevent interracial unions.
Read More“Unfortunately, we will probably have to relocate some statues to our beloved saint or risk their desecration,” the archbishop of Los Angeles said. “Fray Junípero is a saint for our times, the spiritual founder of Los Angeles, a …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Buddhism, Church in the US, entertainment, Hinduism, Interfaith, News, Religious imagery, sacrilege |
America’s nightclubs are largely closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that isn’t stopping an interfaith coalition from launching a campaign to stop what organizers call the “disrespectful” use of sacred Buddhist and Hindu statues as decor.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Bishop Donald J. Hying, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Madison, News, Protests, Racial justice, Racism, Religious imagery, Statues |
Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison June 24 denounced comments by a Black Lives Matter activist who said statues of Jesus Christ that depict him “with European features” need to come down “because they support white supremacy.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | excellence, News, Those Catholic Men |
Virtue, in its Greek root arete, means excellence. It is a perfection, especially a perfection of the human soul. It indicates a refinement of something that was previously of lesser quality. But now, through a process of overcoming difficulty through effort and struggle, the soul takes on a higher quality. It is elevated and excels […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, France, Lyon, News |
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who retired from the Archdiocese of Lyon, has left his see to serve as a convent chaplain and envoy for the pope.
Read MoreThe Pope’s July prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “that today’s families may be accompanied with love, respect, and guidance.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Bishop Timothy L. Doherty, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, catholic priests, Church in the US, Indiana, Indianapolis, Lafayette, News |
A bishop asked a suburban Indianapolis Catholic pastor Tuesday to clarify remarks in which he compared the Black Lives Matter movement and its organizers to “maggots and parasites.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
These past few months, I expect many folks have found themselves resorting to the page and the lamp more often; may that literary trend continue long after our public health circumstances change! Since plague time […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, vocation, vocation crisis |
We are in the midst of the Apostles Fast. Several years ago, when my sister was first learning about the Byzantine tradition—we didn’t grow up in this tradition, you see—she asked me what this fast is all about and, because I didn’t really know, I said, “Well, we’re Byzantine and Byzantines love to fast. You […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Abby Johnson, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Louisiana, News, Pro-life Democrats, the pro-life movement, U.S. Supreme Court, US Supreme Court |
Many of the country’s leading pro-life advocates said the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling striking down a Louisiana abortion law puts women’s health in danger, allows subpar care of women and gives abortion clinics a pass on “commonsense regulations” for “the sake of profit.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Thompson, Archbishop Paul Coakley, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Attorney General William Barr, capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Death penalty, Executions, Indiana, News, Trump administration, USCCB |
A Department of Justice announcement in mid-June that it would resume federal executions beginning at a federal prison within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis drew words of remorse and prayers from Catholic leaders for the crime victims of as well as for the inmates slated to die.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, China, Church in Asia, Genocide, News, Religious persecution, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Uighurs |
Politicians around the world have called for a United Nations probe into a Chinese government birth control campaign targeting largely Muslim minorities in the far western region of Xinjiang, even as Beijing said it treats all ethnicities equally under the law.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Becket, Becket Fund, Blaine Amendments, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, News, religious liberty, School choice, School vouchers, U.S. Supreme Court |
The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Abortion, Abortion law, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Louisiana, News, Pro-life Democrats, the pro-life movement, U.S. Supreme Court |
The Democratic state senator who wrote the Louisiana abortion law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court June 29 said the ruling almost took her breath away.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Asia, Churches, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, South Korea |
South Korea is considering including religious facilities on the same list with nightclubs, hostess bars and karaoke rooms as “high risk” venues for the spread of COVID-19 following a slew of transmissions tied to church gatherings.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | CNA Columns: Russell Shaw, News |
By Russell ShawNot long after coming to power in 1933, the German government headed by Adolf Hitler sought a formal agreement with the Holy See – a concordat setting terms of the church-state relationship. No sooner was the concordat …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Coronavirus, Featured, Health & Spirituality, News |
It was a weekend in the last Lenten season and the strict lockdown for Covid-19 had just begun. I could not get my mind off of a friend of our religious community who was lying at home dying from a second massive stroke in a few months. The doctors said there was nothing more they […]
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