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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Aid to the Church in Need, Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Church, Catholic Near East Welfare Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, CNEWA, Jesuit Refugee Service, Lebanon, Malteser International, News |
As Lebanon’s Catholic leaders appealed for help for their country, international and U.S. organizations appealed for donations for Beirut, capital of a country already suffering from a severe economic downturn.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | News, World News |
The Archbishop of Juba condemned ‘in the strongest terms possible’ the murder of three young girls
The post ‘These were innocent children,’ archbishop says of South Sudan murders appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Raleigh, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News |
Catholic churches, schools and other properties were spared serious damage by a mid-season tropical storm that raced up the East Coast, killing at least six people and leaving more than 3.7 million customers without power.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | News, United States |
“I recognize that this news is profoundly painful for our students and their families, teachers and principals,” Cardinal Tobin said
The post Citing COVID-19 economic toll, Newark closing five Catholic schools, merging three appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePope Francis announced he would begin a new series of general audience talks aimed at helping build “the future that we need.”
The post In light of pandemic, pope will begin new series on social doctrine appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, CEPROME, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, Father Daniel Portillo, lead, News, Pope Francis |
Pope Francis has written the prologue for a new book edited by Father Daniel Portillo, a Mexican priest and founder of the Interdisciplinary Center of Investigation and Formation for the Protection of Minors from Mexico’s Catholic University (CEPROME).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Archdiocese of Newark, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey, News |
Citing the toll COVID-19 is taking on school enrollments and finances, the Archdiocese of Newark’s Office of Schools announced Aug. 4 that five elementary schools will not reopen this fall and three elementary schools will consolidate with nearby school communities.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord [August 6, 2020] at the Church of the Holy Innocents, […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | 2020 election, Associated Press, Church in the US, Florida, News, Susan B Anthony List, the pro-life movement, Vice President Mike Pence |
Vice President Mike Pence visited Florida’s Tampa Bay area on Wednesday, firing up the Republican party’s conservative base while touring a pregnancy center, speaking at a church and making an appearance before a packed ballroom.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Arson, Associated Press, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega |
Managua’s Catholic archbishop celebrated Mass on Wednesday in front of a fire-scorched chapel at the capital’s cathedral and reiterated the church’s assertion that the fire was a “savage and terrorist” act and not an accident as reported by the National Police.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, Death and dying, Mississippi, Native Americans, News |
As confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocket in Mississippi, the state’s only federally recognized American Indian tribe has been devastated. COVID-19 has ripped through Choctaw families, many of whom live together in multigenerational homes.
Read MoreThe Southeast African nation of 27.9 million (map) is 30% Protestant, 24% Catholic, 17% Muslim, and 28% ethnic religionist. An Islamist insurgency began in 2017, and Pope Francis made an apostolic journey there in September 2019.
Read MoreBishop Franco Mulakkal of Jullundur had appealed to India’s highest court to dismiss a rape charge against him.
Read MoreAsked “if there was one message you wanted to say to our viewers,” President Trump responded: “Well, I think anybody having to do with, frankly, religion, but certainly the Catholic Church, you have to be with President Trump when it …
Read More“I find these attacks to be a disturbing trend, happening in multiple areas across the nation, including within my own congressional district,” said Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN), who is Catholic.
Read MoreFather Albert van der Woerd responded to an editorial that took aim at his parish’s opposition to a housing project for the homeless next to the parish school.
Read MoreRabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, coauthored a 2010 book with Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Giuseppe Mazzini, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Pius IX, Risorgimento, Rome, urban life |
People who today seem enemies may later become friends; disputes that now seem intractable may dissolve; and ideas that seem anathema may come to be not only acceptable but eminently “orthodox.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Church in the Middle East, Coronavirus, Corruption, Greek Melkite, lead, Lebanon, Middle East, News |
A Lebanese priest has pinned blame for a massive explosion in Lebanon on government corruption, saying the cumulative impact of the coronavirus, the country’s dire financial situation, and yesterday’s blast is enough to make the country collapse unless immediate action is taken.
Read More“The Child Victims Act has allowed more than 3,000 brave survivors to come forward to seek justice,” said State Sen. Brad Hoylman. “Yet it’s clear many New Yorkers who survived child sexual abuse haven’t come forward — esp…
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