Month: September 2020

The Jewish community in UAE comes into the daylight

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

The United Arab Emirates has shown increasing “tolerance” towards its Jewish residents, culminating with a historic agreement with Israel

Church joins Myanmar’s battle against second COVID-19 wave

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

Young Catholics join the front line as the impoverished nation faces a resurgence of the contagion

Fathers, Don’t Tap Out

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | fathers, Marriage, Masculinity, News |

The kids were out of control and so were the bills, my relationship with my wife felt strained, and I honestly didn’t think I could handle the stress at work anymore. I’ll never forget the day it all seemed to come crashing together. It looked like an ugly self-portrait, an American Gothic with me holding […]

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Updates on the Appointment of a New Supreme Court Justice

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

If you don’t get the daily update from The Loop, I would highly suggest you check it out. Nice daily summary from Catholic Vote about Catholics and politics, important news, saint of the day, and more. Here are a few entries for today: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ‘GOT THE VOTES’ Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-SC, […]

Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

Reading 1 PRV 21:1-6, 10-13

Like a stream is the king’s heart in the hand of the LORD;
wherever it pleases him, he directs it.

All the ways of a man may be right in his own eyes,
but it is the LORD who proves hearts.

To do what is…

Samaritanus bonus (The Good Samaritan) on the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of Life

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has issued a statement strongly reaffirming the Church’s ban on euthanasia as “intrinsically evil.” The CDF statement, released on September 22, 2020, comes in response to a new drive for legal acceptance of physician-assisted suicide, particularly in European nations. Cardinal Luis Ladaria, the prefect of the CDF, told reporters that at a plenary session in 2018, the members of the congregation had agreed on “the expediency of a document that would deal with this, not only in a doctrinally correct manner, but also using strong pastoral tones and comprehensible language, in keeping with the progress of the medical sciences.” The Vatican statement is addressed not merely to the issue of euthanasia, but to the broader issue of “the care of persons in the critical and terminal phases of life.” The statement itself acknowledges: “It is widely recognized that a moral and practical clarification regarding care of these persons is needed.”

Pastoral Letter Regarding Any Possible Invalid Baptisms

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

Bishop Michael Olsen of Fort Worth has made public the name of the deacon who, in 1992, invalidly baptized a future Oklahoma City priest. "Anyone baptized by Deacon [Philip] Webb should be conditionally baptized and confirmed unless there is evide…

Sep. 22 Tuesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Thomas of Villanova, a great saint of the Spanish Renaissance and a good friend of Emperor Charles V. He was a man of infinite charity in…

#9767 Your Bible Questions – Jimmy Akin

Posted by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2020 | News |

Bible questions, Catholic Answers.
Questions Covered:

03:24 – What does the Bible say about the difference between mortal and venial sin?
13:11 – There seems to be a contradiction between Matthew 28:2 and Luke 24:2. How do we reconcile th…