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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, Federal court, News, Shooting |
Federal Judge Esther Salas said the July 19 death of her only child, Daniel, killed at their family home by a lawyer, could not be in vain and in an Aug. 3 video called for the protection of “my brothers and sisters on the bench.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, Death and dying, News, Philippines |
He was heralded in the Philippines as the country’s youngest COVID-19 survivor, a baby who’d become infected with and conquered the coronavirus during his first 16 days of life. He later died of Hirschsprung disease.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic Near East Welfare Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, CNEWA, Lebanon, News |
AMMAN, Jordan — Hospitals in the Lebanese capital are overwhelmed with those suffering injuries from a massive explosion in Beirut’s port, causing widespread damage the city and rocking the tiny Mediterranean nation already devastated by the coronavirus and its worst financial crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. “People won’t be
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Elderly, News, seniors |
In communities around the world, the social isolation that keeps elders safe from the coronavirus but precludes going to church is proving extremely difficult for many. In some remote areas, younger generations are helping their elders.
Read More“North Korea is widely considered the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian,” Aid to the Church in Need notes. There, Christians suffer “extra-judicial killings, forced labor, torture, persecution, starvation, rape, forc…
Read More“I renew my call that we reject any vaccine that is developed using aborted children,” Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler tweeted. “Even if it originated decades ago it still means a child’s life was ended before it was born & th…
Read MoreCourts have blocked enforcement of the May 2019 regulations, which the US bishops have praised.
Read MoreThe Pontifical Academy for Life’s recent document is entitled “Useful information on the Document of the Pontifical Academy for Life: Humana Communitas in the age of pandemic: untimely meditations on life’s rebirth.” (Phil Lawl…
Read MoreThree people were killed, and 215 injured, in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Read More“I did not witness the horrific scenes that unfolded immediately following the bombing myself,” said Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki, who was in his mother’s womb during the atomic bomb of August 9, 1945 (video). “…
Read MoreAfter Gov. Andy Beshear asked churches to take a “two-Sunday pause” from in-person worship, Kentucky’s bishops “decided not to ask parishes to suspend worship because of the very good job Catholic parishes have been doing with w…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Asia - Pacific, News |
CNA Staff, Aug 5, 2020 / 12:05 am (CNA).- In the latter half of 2019 and the first few months of 2020, Australia contended with massive, devastating bushfires that burned more than 45 millions of acres of land and directly killed 34 people, with an est…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, News, San Rafael, seminary |
A seminary located in the heart of Argentina’s famous Mendoza wine region was ordered closed by the local bishop following instructions from the Vatican after a revolt over COVID-19 safety measures.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News |
Over 1,500 priests have defended the bishops who signed a letter criticizing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after they came under attack from traditionalist clergy in the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Catholic Church, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Interviews, lead, News, quarantine, social distancing |
Tim Carney is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute with kids on Catholic schools in Maryland. He spoke about a recent attempt by a county official to keep Catholic schools closes against their wishes.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Archdiocese of Bombay, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, Coronavirus, covid, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, India, lead, News, Tribals |
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, says over 20 million people have been assisted by the Church in India during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Jesus’ feeding of the five thousand in Mt 4:13-21 gives us an insight into how He responds to human helplessness, those moments when we feel overwhelmed by our personal and societal circumstances. Firstly, by His humanity, Jesus indeed freely chose to experience and share in our helplessness. He “withdrew in a boat to a deserted […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Ben and I carried our new child, Auggie, into the house, but I was feeling dejected. It wasn’t postpartum depression, just a sense of foreboding. We’d heard that morning that the country was shutting down in unprecedented ways — Broadway going dark, all major sports leagues canceling their seasons, Disney World closing. I wasn’t sure […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Morning Prayer We can’t be surely, Lord, the only fiveIn all the world who call to you today.In Africa or Asia—Sheepshead Bay—There must be more who keep Your Name alive.There mu…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Ireland, Mary, News, Our Lady of Knock, Saints |
They swoop down, around, in and out. They seem to come from nowhere, though I know, rationally, that they live in our barn. They are, after all, barn swallows. I have never grown tired of seeing swallows performing their acrobatics. I first saw them in my younger years, growing up at a Christian summer camp. […]
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