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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News, Saints |
The celebration of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist – after all, it was his expeditious entrance into heaven – is sort of a bookend to the summer, for you may recall that June 24th, just after the end of spring, was the solemnity of his birth. Now, as summer draws to its close,[…]
The post The Baptist and Losing One’s Head appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Aug 29, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- A team spread across three continents is using cutting-edge technology to shed new light on the figure of St. John Henry Newman.
The project, overseen by the National Institute for Newman Studies (NINS) in Pi…
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist
Reading 1 1 COR 1:26-31
Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters.Not many of you were wise by human standards,not many were powerful,not many were of noble birt…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Andrea Bocelli, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, cinema, Fatima, little shepherds of Fatima, Mary in Fatima, Movies, News, Our Lady of Fatima |
Most movie patrons head for the exits once they see the closing credits start rolling. Those who do that after watching “Fatima,” though, will miss not one, but two songs performed by the famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, a Catholic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Marriage, Church in the Americas, Ecuador, Elderly, Marriage, News |
Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly marry Waldramina Quinteros one February day. Both families disapproved.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Archbishop Jose Gomez, Beaumont, Bishop David L. Toups, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Hurricane, Hurricane Laura, Louisiana, Natural disasters, News, Texas, USCCB |
After a hurricane made landfall with winds of 150 mph along the Texas-Louisiana border early on Aug. 27, bishops from the dioceses in its path found themselves the morning after assessing damages and checking in with others hours after destructive Hurricane Laura had passed.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Holy See diplomacy, Holy See Mission to the United Nations, News, Nuclear arms treaty, nuclear disarmament, nuclear war, Nuclear weapons, United Nations, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the absurdity of “pouring valuable resources into the maintenance of weapons of destruction while so many on this planet are struggling to survive,” a Vatican representative told a U.N. meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day Against Nuclear Tests.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, World Heritage |
For the past decade, art collector Nabil Debs has been working on turning his 19th century ancestral home in a historic neighborhood of Beirut to a hotel and art gallery. He planned to open it to the public in mid-August.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Drug cartels, Drug violence, Mafia, Mexico, Mexico bishops, News, organized crime |
No sooner had federal forces arrested José Antonio Yépez Ortiz — a crime boss known as “El Marro,” or the sledgehammer — than stories surfaced of his supposed generosity with the Catholic Church and devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in India, cinema, India, Jesuits, Movies, News, Obituary |
Jesuit Father Gaston Roberge, the French-Canadian founder of Chitrabani media training institute in Kolkata and a film and media scholar, died at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, Aug. 26. He was 85.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, US bishops, USCCB, USCCB fall assembly |
The U.S. bishops will conduct their annual fall general meeting virtually in November rather than meet in person as has been the bishops’ practice.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Features, News, Special Report |
MADISON, Wisconsin — The last-minute COVID-19 school-closing order by the Dane County health authority tramples on constitutionally protected freedom of religion and has caused “irreparable harm” to local Catholic schools that spent hundreds of thousan…
Read MoreItalian journalist Lucetta Scaraffia, the former editor of a monthly women’s insert for the Vatican newspaper, has published a new novel highlighting women’s role in the Catholic Church and which features a woman cardinal as one of the main protagonists.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Cemeteries, Coronavirus, covid, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, Death and dying, Funerals, Interviews, lead, News |
Robert Seelig leads Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services (CFCS) as CEO and founder. He created the vision for CFCS as “Church helping Church.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic Church, Church in the US, lead, News, Racism, University of Notre Dame |
American bishops must do more to uphold the legacy set by religious leaders during the civil rights movement, Archbishop Wilton Gregory said in a talk last week.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Mary & Jesus More Closely Related than We may have Thought – Steve Ray at Defenders of the Catholic Faith +1
Tattoos & St. Jane de Chantal – Fr. Z’s Blog +1
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | Featured, Gospel, Jesus Christ, News, Scripture, St. Peter, Sunday Scripture Reflections |
No sooner does Jesus praise Peter’s confession at Caesarea Philippi and dub him “the Rock” than he rebukes him as the devil or Satan. Peter had confessed Jesus to be the Messiah. But his idea of what it meant to be the Christ left no room for suffering…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | 2020, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Communist Manifesto, Mao’s China to Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, News, Paul Johnson’s in Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Paul Kengor, Robert Orlando, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan and the Dramatic End of the Cold War, Satan, Saul Alinksy, The Catholic Thing, The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death Deception and Infiltration, The Divine Plan: John Paul II, Vladimir Lenin |
Rob Orlando: In his new book, Paul Kengor plunges a stake into the heart of the devil and Karl Marx. But as we know, such vampires are not so easily killed.
The post “The Devil and Karl Marx”: a Review appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MoreThe Church, having celebrated the earthly birthday of St. John the Baptist on June 24, today honors the anniversary of his martyrdom. Besides our Lord and our Lady, St. John the Baptist is the only one whose birth and death are thus celebrated. Today’s…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 29, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
The Last Prophet’s Last Offering John the Baptist was born about six months before his cousin, Jesus Christ. We remember the Virgin Mary, who had just conceived the Word of God, hurrying to meet her cousin Elizabeth, who was in the sixth month of her miraculous pregnancy. Elizabeth was considered far too old to conceive […]
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