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Four months after Scotland’s churches began to reopen, Covid cases are on the rise. The vice president of the bishops’ conference urged continued vigilance on infection control measures so that churches can remain open. He added, “Am…
Read More“It is outrageous that after incurring great expense to implement all the safety protocols, our parishes are being forced to reduce capacity to a maximum of 10 people in the red zone and 25 people in the orange zone,” said Bishop Nicholas D…
Read MoreThe church, a Syriac Orthodox church, is located in Istanbul.
Read More“There are so many saints next door,” the Pope said in the interview with the Spanish edition of Il Mio Papa. They “did not want to ‘escape’ but faced problems and sought practical solutions to them. God understands that l…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | 2020 election, Amy Coney Barrett, Christian persecution, Donald J. Trump, Featured, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
As our readers must know, Amy Coney Barrett, whom President Trump has nominated for a position on the Supreme Court, was a long-time member of a charismatic and ecumenical Christian group called People of Praise. The women in the group are called handmaids, after the world-changing fiat of Mary: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be […]
“In her apparitions, Our Lady often exhorted the recitation of the Rosary, especially in the face of looming threats to the world,” Pope Francis said on October 7, the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. “Even today, in this time of …
Read More“From the 1940s to 2018, 390 people who were clergy or in positions of trust associated with the Church [of England] have been convicted of sexual offences against children,” according to a report released by the Independent Inquiry into C…
Read More“For the Catholic Church, the open questions are so weighty that it does not feel able to allow mutual participation in general before they are clarified, especially since the question of the unity of the Catholic Church is affected here as well,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | News, United States |
Senators decried attacks on Catholic Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s religious beliefs.
The post Senators reject claim Amy Coney Barrett ‘too Christian’ for Supreme Court appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePope Francis said he hoped to visit Spain to mark the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St Ignatius of Loyola
The post Pope Francis hopes to visit Spain to mark 500 years since Jesuit founder’s conversion appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read More“If you don’t hold that abortion is the pre-eminent moral issue of our time, and if you don’t struggle to justify voting for a candidate whose record or policy would favor or even expand abortion, then you probably aren’t formin…
Read More“We continue to be disappointed by the Trump Administration’s diminishment of the U.S. refugee resettlement program, as these decisions have a tangible impact on those fleeing religious persecution and other vulnerable families in need of r…
Read MorePope Francis addressed his message to participants in the October plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The session’s topic is “Science and Survival: A focus on SARS-CoV-2 and connections between large-scale risks for lif…
Read More“If you believe in the Lord, if you believe that all suffering has a reason, and the Lord is suffering with me,” said Jimmy Lai, “I’m at peace with it.”
Read MoreJudge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, the dissenting judge in the 2-1 decision, sided with Harvest Rock Church, stating: “There is no doubt that California’s COVID-19 scheme … imposes direct and severe burdens on religious practice within th…
Read MoreSupported by a bloc of evangelical legislators, the measure would forgive unpaid taxes on for-profit church ventures. The nation’s bishops have not commented on the legislation.
Read MoreIf only for the sake of accuracy and fairness, the first-person plural pronoun in the title of this book begs definition, since a good many people did see “it” coming over the last four decades. […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Authors, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Latin America, lead, News, Poetry, Pope Francis |
A quote of the Brazilian poet and composer Vinícius de Moraes in Pope Francis’s encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” was received with surprise and joy by many in the South American country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Abraham Accords, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Bahrain, Interviews, Israel, lead, Middle East, News, Palestine, President Donald Trump, two-state solution, United Arab Emirates, Vatican |
Archbishop Paul Gallagher also suggested the Vatican would be willing to reconsider its long-standing insistence on a two-state solution for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict should all parties converge on some other outcome that’s both just and fair.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Church in UK and Ireland, Fratelli Tutti, Great Britain, immigrants and refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS, lead, News, UK Home Office, United Kingdom |
In his latest encyclical, Pope Francis is speaking “directly to the divisive and unpleasant rhetoric which is so pervasive in our society” especially in the UK, according to the head of Britain’s leading Catholic refugee agency.
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