Philippine democracy in peril, bishop warns (CBCP News)
“We have been through the dark, cruel days of tyranny,” said Bishop Patricio Buzon of Bacolod. “If we stand and speak up now, our children do not have to go through it.”
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“We have been through the dark, cruel days of tyranny,” said Bishop Patricio Buzon of Bacolod. “If we stand and speak up now, our children do not have to go through it.”
Read MoreBy a 53%-47% margin, Missouri voters approved Medicaid expansion.
Read More“Some elderly congregation members live alone and have no sources of income, but are also forced to give money,” said a local leader of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, the nation’s official Protestant body.
Read MoreAt least 135 died following explosions in Beirut on August 4.
Read MoreThe CEO of Catholic Charities USA spoke of a “50% to 70% increase in the number of clients,” a number of whom “are people from middle-class families who lost their jobs as the pandemic surged.”
Read More“We want to say clearly that mental ill-health is not a moral failure, the result of a lack of faith, or of weak will,” Archbishop Mark Coleridge said in the foreword to the statement. “Jesus himself was labelled mad (Mark 3:21; John…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Coronavirus, Faith & Spirituality, feast day, Featured, News, Transfiguration |
2020 has been a long, hard year for most of us. It is a running joke on social media that, at this point, nothing would be unexpected. Murder hornets? Of course. New flare-up of bubonic plague? Sure. We have all joked about the sheer overwhelm of this year, but the truth is — we want […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration. It is when Our Lord took St. Peter, St. James, and St. John up to the mountain to pray and He was transfigured before them; revealing a glimpse of His glory. These three Apostles—who would also be with Him in the Garden of Gethsemane on the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, charity, conversion, Daily Examen, Faith, Featured, Gospel, Hope, Humility, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News, practical faith, Prayer, Scripture, servant, St. Matthew, Sunday Scripture Reflections, surrender, Transfiguation |
The Transfiguration of Christ (Matthew 17:1-9) stands prominently as an encouragement along the walk from Baptism to Resurrection; a walk that must pass through the Cross. Place yourself in the position of the Apostles—they have journeyed with Jesus si…
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One of the ways we can do some of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, taught to us by Jesus in the Gospels (see Matthew 25: 31-45), is by letters, emails, and phone calls. Whether we are unable to see someone in person because of the distance, weather, or health problems, or in the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | 2020, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, News, Pope Francis, Stephen P. White, Waiting for the McCarrick Report |
Stephen P. White: Catholics wonder if the McCarrick report will be a snow job or a full and honest accounting. Its long delay may well suggest the latter.
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Resuming his weekly general audience after the July recess, Pope Francis says that the Christian virtues of faith, hope and…
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In the 1850s, Millet centers on the French peasantry, a surprisingly new subject given its abundance, and he doesn’t present…
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God is the true source of our honor. Before we were ever formed in our mother’s womb God thought about…
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The only Middle East country with a Christian head of state is now in an unprecedented state due to a…
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Read MoreIt is no necessary mark of a true religion that it is rational in the common sense of the word;…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Of all the virtue, the most necessary is trust in God, because without it He can do nothing, and with it He can do everything.”
—Fr. Jean Nicolas Grou, The Spiritual Life
Read MoreThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has said that a newly popular form of Baptism is invalid, and those people baptized with this formula must be baptized again. The CDF ruled in this Responsum that saying "we baptize you," r…
Read MoreThis feast became widespread in the West in the 11th century and was introduced into the Roman calendar in 1457 to commemorate the victory over Islam in Belgrade. Before that, the Transfiguration of the Lord was celebrated in the Syrian, Byzantine, and…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
Jesus Christ took three of His disciples, Peter, James, and John, up on a mountain, where Moses and Elijah appeared and Jesus was transfigured before them; His face and clothes becoming white and shining as light, and a voice came out of heaven saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; […]
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