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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, economy, Father Augusto Zampini, lead, News, Pope Francis, sustainable development goals, Vatican |
Pope Francis believes that the human person is not immune to crises but always impacted by them. Being better or worse after each one, he’s often said, is “up to us.” With that in mind, the Vatican’s COVID-19 coronavirus crisis task force is identifying what needs to be changed.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | APSA, Archbishop Mario Giordana, Fabbrica di San Pietro, Father Juan Antonio Guerrero, Financial reform, lead, London, News, News Analysis, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican finances |
Despite the general stall related to the coronavirus over the last several months, it’s been drive time in terms of a financial reshuffle in the Vatican.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Dan Burke, Spiritual Warfare, & Childhood Trauma – Joseph Sciambra at Sons of St. Joseph +1
The Distinctly Catholic Doctrine – Joe Heschmeyer, J.D., at Catholic Answers Magazine…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Dignity of Life, Featured, News, race |
“Without this contemplative spirit, the liturgy will remain an occasion for hateful divisions and ideological confrontations instead of being the place of our unity and of our communion in the Lord.” Robert Cardinal Sarah, The Power of Silence, “Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
You may well be content to serve our Lord in illness, for when he calls people to suffer instead of working for Him, He is calling them to a higher state. During our earthly exile, it is most fitting that we should carry the cross with Christ, who loved it so dearly that He chose […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Laurie Klein. Jonah’s Whale Addresses […]
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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | In the News, News |
Answering a call made by those who took part in the October 2019 meeting of bishops on the Amazon region…
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The Church is like an ark in the passing waters of this world and in the floodwaters of times like…
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These acts of destruction are acts of pure and unmitigated hate, a blind and abstract hatred completely devoid of any…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | In the News, News |
Vatican police have seized documents and computers from the department tasked with maintaining St Peter’s Basilica. It is part of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | 2020, Benjamin Franklin, Columns, Constitution of the United States, Federalist Papers, Founding documents, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Jay Leno, News, Randall Smith, republican democracy, The Catholic Thing, “A Republic If You Can Keep It” |
Randall Smith: If you are looking to get America back on track, consider encouraging and even funding study of the Constitution and our Founding documents.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Let us believe our Lord Jesus Christ, who calls this rest His peace, a divine peace, which the world can neither give nor take away — a peace that we can never obtain by our own efforts because it is the gift of God and is His reward for the absolute and irrevocable gift of […]
Read MoreMiguel Jose Serra was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain. He took the name Junipero when he entered the Franciscan Order in 1730. Ordained in 1737, he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Padua for twelve years. At age 37, he went to …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
Miguel José Serra was born November 24, 1713 on the Spanish island of Majorca. At 17, he joined the Franciscans and took the name Junípero after St. Francis’ much-loved friend. He was ordained a priest in 1737 and became a well-known theologian and professor of philosophy when, at the age of 36, he decided to […]
“To say that the Church is not a business provides no justification for us to be inefficient much less for us to be corrupt.” Those were the words of Cardinal George Pell, the former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, in a video ad…
Read MoreThe Archdiocese of Agana, Guam, will cut off its financial support for former Archbishop Anthony Apuron, who was removed from office last year after the Vatican found him guilty on sex-abuse charges. Ordinarily a diocese is obligated by canon law to pr…
Read MoreOrthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has warned that the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque—a project favored by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan—would raise tensions between Christians and Muslims in Turkey.
Read MoreCardinal Joseph Zen says that he has “no confidence” the Chinese government will respect religious freedom under Hong Kong’s new security laws. The retired prelate’s stand contrasts with that of his successor, Cardinal John Tong…
Read MoreCardinal Philippe Barbarin, who resigned in March from his post as Archbishop of Lyon, says that he is “contented and happy” to take up a new assignment as a convent chaplain. Cardinal Barbarin was first convicted, then acquitted, of charge…
Read MoreMsgr. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Pope-emeritus Benedict, died on July 1, at the age of 96. The retired Pontiff had traveled to Regensburg, Germany, just two weeks ago, to visit his ailing brother for the last time.
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