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Rome Newsroom, Sep 30, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- After 11 years, the Catholic Church in central Norway will have a bishop again.
Fr. Erik Varden, a Cistercian monk and spiritual writer, will be consecrated a bishop at the Cathedral of St. Olav in Trondh…
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church
Reading 1 JB 9:1-12, 14-16
Job answered his friends and said:I know well that it is so;
but how can a man be justified before God?
Should one wish to contend …
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | Becciu, Financial reform, Moneyval, News, Vatican, Vatican finances |
The Moneyval review is to assess the effectiveness of the Vatican’s most recent measures for the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | 2020 election, Featured, Joe Biden, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Joe Biden is Catholic. This is, apparently, a controversial take these days. Picking up on the political utility of the label—a much needed counterbalance to the radical and secular spirit that has overtaken the party at large—the Biden campaign has been hammering home “Joe’s Catholic roots” in a last-ditch effort to retain those voters who […]
Justice Richard Humphreys ruled that “while the ongoing secularization of society makes oaths, with their emphasis on religious beliefs, look like a pre-Enlightenment anachronism and an embarrassment, the unfortunate reality is that the oath stil…
Read MoreThis round-up offers an overview of “a new bishop apologizing for clerical sexual abuse in Chile, the bishops of Nicaragua announcing the return of public Masses after the coronavirus and the Church in Ecuador praising the country’s preside…
Read MoreSince 2011, payments have averaged $5,840; under the new system, there will be “payments of up to about 50,000 euros ($58,400) to each victim.”
Read More“It saddens me to have had to be the cause of further affliction which adds to the unjust sufferings suffered in these days by His Eminence Cardinal Becciu and his family members,” said the attorney, Ivano Iai.
Read MoreBishop Michael Yeung, installed as Hong Kong’s bishop in August 2017, died in January 2019. Cardinal Joseph Zen governed the diocese from 2002 to 2009; Cardinal John Tong Hon, from 2009 to 2017. The retired Cardinal Tong is temporarily administer…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, September 11, sex trafficking, Weekly Headlines |
It’s September 11 as I write, just shy a full 20 years from the day that changed America. Veterans of my generation—the one that responded after 9/11—have a joke. As children just sorting out language, we believed the word “veteran” was synonymous with “old person.” Looking in the mirror today, we now find ourselves disconcerted […]
Born in 1947, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017. He also discussed the Vatican’s agreement with China: “What good is an agreement with the Chinese Commu…
Read More“I think that a person in good conscience could vote for Mr. Biden,” Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark said on September 15. “I, frankly, in my own way of thinking have a more difficult time with the other option.”
Read MoreAndrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, said that “the results [of the 2018 provisional agreement] have been positive, although limited, and suggest going forward with the application of the agreement for another…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | 2020 presidential election, Biden, Comment, News, Top Story, Trump, United States, US elections 2020 |
The exchanges did not bring much clarity to the contours or the specifics of the national discussion, but they did send international editor Christopher Altieri casting about for disinfectant.
The post Commentary: First 2020 US presidential debate an indecorous affair appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read More“Positioning dissenting Catholics as ‘mainstream Americans’ and believing Catholics as ‘extremists’—now a common and thoroughly dishonest culture war technique—is a particular affront to the free exercise of religion,&rdqu…
Read MoreAsia Bibi is the Catholic woman who was jailed from 2009 to 2018 in Pakistan on an unsupported charge of blasphemy against Islam. She now lives in an undisclosed location in Canada.
Read More“I appreciate and respect that everyone is in a different place with how comfortable they feel about venturing out, especially to our churches,” Bishop David Zubik said. “We continue to create and maintain as many opportunities as pos…
Read More“I don’t intend to get involved in the recommending any candidate for office, but simply to state that a Catholic may not support abortion in any shape or form, because it is one of the most grievous sins against human life, and has always …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | News, United States |
“His judicial philosophy is mine too: A judge must apply the law as written,” she said
The post Amy Coney Barrett recalls Scalia’s ‘incalculable influence’ on her appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | News, Rest of World |
After 11 years, the Catholic Church in central Norway will have a bishop again.
The post Norway’s newest Catholic bishop is Cistercian monk Erik Varden appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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