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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | Featured Highlights, News, Saints |
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri was a renaissance man, whose kind was a rarity back then, and even more so now in our age of ‘degrees’ in odd, esoteric subjects that would have puzzled anyone before, say, 1960. Alphonsus received a double doctorate in civil and canon law at the tender age of 16, and the gowns[…]
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Read MoreBy Jim Graves | For the first time since it was established a decade ago, the Napa Institute Summer Conference will be held online Friday and Saturday, Aug. 14-15. The original event had been planned as an…
Read MoreCNA Staff, Aug 1, 2020 / 05:30 am (CNA).- A feminist group said Friday that it may launch a legal challenge over new rules to increase female representation on public boards in Scotland, arguing that they redefine the term “woman” to includ…
Read MoreSports enthusiast and Indigenous language educator Dominic Beaudry doesn’t pass up an opportunity for a teachable moment on or off the field of play.
A huge Toronto Raptors’ fan, the teacher at St. James Catholic Elementary School in Lively, Ont., spa…
Read MoreVatican City, Aug 1, 2020 / 03:45 am (CNA).- Pope Francis appointed an official from the Vatican Secretariat of State as his new personal secretary Saturday.
The Holy See press office said Aug. 1 that the 41-year-old Fr. Fabio Salerno would succe…
Read MoreVatican City, Aug 1, 2020 / 03:45 am (CNA).- Pope Francis appointed an official from the Vatican Secretariat of State as his new personal secretary Saturday.
The Holy See press office said Aug. 1 that the 41-year-old Fr. Fabio Salerno would succe…
Read MoreReading 1 JER 26:11-16, 24
The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people,
“This man deserves death;
he has prophesied against this city,
as you have heard with your own ears.”
Jeremiah gave this answer to the pr…
Reading 1 Jer 26:11-16, 24
The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people,
“This man deserves death;
he has prophesied against this city,
as you have heard with your own ears.”
Jeremiah gave this answer to the princes and all the…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
Readings: • Isa 55:1-3 • Psa 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 • Rom 8:35, 37-39 • Matt 14:13-21 The story of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand is well known. It appears in all […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | Archdiocese of Milan, Canon Law, Church in Europe, courts, garbage, Italy, lead, mountains, Naples, News, Shrines |
Part of the charm of living in Italy is the way Catholicism is so utterly woven into the fabric of life here.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega |
ROSARIO, Argentina – Against the backdrop of deep tensions between Nicaragua’s bishops and the socialist government of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, three Catholic churches in the country have been attacked in the last three weeks, building upon a long-standing pattern of churches being targets.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | China, Church in Asia, human rights, Human trafficking, lead, News, Uighurs, Vatican-China, Women |
As Chinese central authorities tighten their grip on Hong Kong and as the world continues to hear news of the alleged repression of the country’s Uighur Muslim population, Pope Francis is the target of increasing pressure over his hesitancy to speak out.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | 2 Cor 1:8, 2020, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, John 11:5, Martha and Mary, Matthew 9:18-16; Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:40-56, News, Raising of Lazarus, rising of Jairus' daughter, St. Padre Pio, Talitha cumi!, The Catholic Thing |
Elizabeth A. Mitchell: The hour may be late and the betrayer at hand, but Hell will not prevail. The Church isn’t dead, she is only asleep. Talitha cumi!
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Read MoreSt. Alphonsus de Liguori was a great preacher of the Gospel to the poor. His charity and apostolic spirit led him to found the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer to carry on this work. He sent his Redemptorists, as our Lord did the Apostles, into t…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2020 | News, Today's Saint |
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) was a rising young lawyer in Naples, but losing an important case prompted him to forsake the law and to become a priest instead. Alphonsus soon gained a reputation as a great preacher (though he later claimed that all his sermons could be understood by even the simplest person in the […]
CNA Staff, Jul 31, 2020 / 07:15 pm (CNA).- An unidentified man threw a firebomb into a chapel of Managua’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Friday, severely damaging the chapel and a devotional image of Christ more than three centuries o…
Read MoreThe Turkish government’s decision two weeks ago to have the Hagia Sophia used as a mosque once again was met with outrage and concern throughout the world. The first day of prayer since the Hagia Sophia’s […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jul 31, 2020 / 06:53 pm (CNA).- The Pontifical Academy for Life has defended its latest document on the coronavirus crisis following criticism that it did not mention God.
A spokesman said July 30 that the text, “Humana Communitas in …
Read MoreBy Mary Harrell | The first book I ever threw across the room was Anthony Esolen’s “Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of your Child.”
It’s not that it’s a bad book — it’s a GREAT book, and arguably one of th…
Read MoreQuestions Covered:
11:30 – I used to be a good Catholic, but after joining the Marines I fell away. How can I make my way back?
21:29 – How do we attain righteousness?
42:23 – Why do Catholics call Mary “Mother of God” and “Mother of…
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