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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Australia, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic Social Services, Church in Oceania, Jesuit Refugee Service, lead, News |
Catholic organizations in Australia say the newly announced 2020-2021 national budget is a missed opportunity as the country struggles with the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Oct 8, 2020 / 12:04 am (CNA).- A district court this week issued a temporary injunction protecting a faith-based adoption provider from being shut down by the state of New York for its policy of only placing children with a married mother an…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | CNA Columns: Russell Shaw, News |
By Russell ShawWhen did confirming someone for a seat on the Supreme Court become a traumatic ordeal for the candidate and the nation? How did we get to the point where a nominee’s intelligence, character, and experience no longer suffice? Once a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | 2020, All Saints Day, All Soul's Day, Communion of saints, COVID-19, News, Paula Kraus, Saints, Twenty Something |
Paula Kraus wasn’t afraid to utter the wish burning in her heart, the one that seizes so many preparing to lose a loved one.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
As I write this, my spiritual mother and father are anxiously waiting with their son and daughter to see whether or not their granddaughter will have permanent brain damage after she went into cardiac arrest after she was born. Another one of my closest friends suddenly lost a cousin who was perfectly healthy and in […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Catholic Church, Evangelization, Faith, Familiaris Consortio, family, Featured, God, Jesus Christ, Love, News, Prayer, Saint John Paul II, Surrender & Strength |
When my wife and I came into the Catholic Church with our two sons in 2006, we were somewhat overwhelmed by the new life we had begun. We had not only entered into full communion with the Church Christ founded, but we clearly recognized how the expecta…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | 2020, Amy Barrett: What’s Really at Stake, Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Camosy, Columns, News, Randall Smith, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the U.S., The Catholic Thing |
Randall Smith: Why will Democrats attempt to publicly humiliate a talented, extremely qualified, perfectly decent mother of seven? One word: abortion.
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With Elizabeth we marvel, “And why is this granted me,that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (CCC 2677). She Who Must Be Obeyed When I can’t sleep, my go-to is P.G. Wodehouse. I’ve read and re-read the dozen or so Jeeves and Wooster novels scattered around our house countless times, not to […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mary, News, our lady of the rosary, rosary |
As Our Lady of the Rosary, Mary smiles at me the same way I smile at my six-year-old struggling to learn to spell words and write sentences. She was given the title after appearing to Saint Dominic in 1208 in a church in Prouille, France. Later, in 1571, Pope Pius V declared a feast in honor […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Commentary, News |
The portrait of Saint Francis of Assisi as a precursor to modern inter-religious dialogue painted by Pope Francis in his…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Commentary, News |
Although estimates about the number of deaths that would result from an invasion of Japan in 1945 were catastrophically high…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | In the News, News |
An eventual vaccine for COVID-19 would belong to the world and should not be hoarded greedily by countries hosting the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“You must believe in mercy to the point of believing that you are a joy for Jesus.”— Fr. Jean C. J. D’Elbee, I Believe in Love
Read MorePope Francis on September 30, 2020, released this apostolic letter Scripturae Sacrae Affectus (Devotion to Sacred Scripture). The letter is devoted to St. Jerome and comes on the 1600th anniversary of his death.
Read MoreAccording to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, widow.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
In the Gospel today, Jesus talks about perseverance in prayer. Thecommentary to this passage from the Christian Community Bible says,Jesus urges us to ask with perseverance and not get tired of asking,but rather to “tire” God by our persistence. God may not always givewhat we ask for, or not in the way we expect since […]
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Gallagher, the Secretary for Relations with States, welcomed the accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a “very positive” development, but voiced concern about “the isolation of Palestine,” in an i…
Read MoreCardinal Joseph Zen has angrily denied the claim by Cardinal Pietro Parolin that Pope Benedict XVI approved the terms of a secret Vatican accord with Beijing. Saying that the claim is “sickening,” Cardinal Zen said of the Secretary of State…
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