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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Battle of Lepanto, Catholic Living, Don Quixote, Feast of the Holy Rosary, Featured, G.K. Chesterton, Miguel de Cervantes, News, rosary, Weekly Headlines |
Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain, And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the […]
According to the report, critics of the government’s decision point out that “shops can still remain open, as well as a variety of businesses serving the public, including restaurants, hairdressers and gyms.”
Read More“Let us take our lead from the poor man of Assisi, and tend to the inner work: prayer, fasting, love and respect for the Blessed Sacrament, embracing and serving the poor,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said of the city’s namesake. …
Read MoreGov. Andrew Cuomo announced the closing of all public and private schools in certain zip codes; there had been only one case of Covid at the four Catholic schools. The Diocese of Brooklyn had urged the governor to reconsider the decision.
Read MoreIn August and September, Pope Francis devoted his Wednesday general audiences to the theme of healing the world. On October 7, he reflected on Elijah’s prayer (video) as he resumed his weekly catechesis on prayer, begun on May 6.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Bishop Athanasius Schneider, capital punishment, Church, Donald J. Trump, Featured, News, Pope Francis, Weekly Headlines |
“I should like a new Papal Bull every morning with my Times at breakfast.” — William George Ward The kindest thing one can say about Pope Francis’s new social encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, is that it’s totally incomprehensible. Alas, there’s a great deal more we ought to say about it. I was startled by one particular […]
Erich Klausener (1885-1934), the leader of Catholic Action, was killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
Read More“With limited time remaining to prepare for the outworking of Brexit, it is in everyone’s interests to achieve the clarity and security an agreement will provide,” the Primate of All Ireland and Protestant leaders said in a joint stat…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Amy Coney Barrett, Dianne Feinstein, Featured, Kamala Harris, Massimo Faggioli, News, Politics, Tusli Gabbard, Weekly Headlines |
With the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, Catholics should buckle their chinstraps for the torrential cascade of anti-Catholicism that will be belched up by her opponents. The vituperative attacks on Catholics will probably rival the Know-Nothing riots that rocked the nation in the 1840s and 1850s. But this time, there […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
“A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern,” declared Pope Francis in 2013. This participation “in the common life of a people,” he said, is […]
Read MoreFace coverings must be worn outdoors within the territory of Vatican City State
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Read MoreThe Vatican Secretary of State said that Pope Benedict XVI, who reigned from 2005 to 2013, approved the draft agreement on the appointment of bishops in China, which eventually was signed in 2018.
Read More“Number one, we don’t know exactly what [Amy Coney Barrett] will do, although the expectation is that she very well may overrule Roe, and the only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation to make Roe the law of the land,&rd…
Read More“Each party clearly states their position on critical life issues such as abortion, destructive research on human embryos, euthanasia and assisted suicide,” Bishop James Johnston, Jr., of Kansas City-St. Joseph wrote. “Each party sta…
Read More“Today concludes the Season of Creation, which began on 1 September and in which we celebrated a ‘Jubilee for the Earth’ along with our brethren of other Christian churches,” Pope Francis said on October 4. “I greet the r…
Read More“Through Fratelli tutti Pope Francis has spoken of the need for an open heart that gives birth to an open world, and this at a time when so many hearts and doors and borders are closed,” Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of t…
Read More“On 4 October one hundred years ago, the Stella Maris work was founded in Scotland to support the people of the sea,” Pope Francis said of the recently renamed Apostleship of the Sea. “On this important anniversary I encourage chapla…
Read MoreThe state’s Office of Children and Family Services has threatened to close down New Hope Family Services’ as an adoption agency because it does not place children with single persons or homosexual couples. The court found that the regulat…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Editor's Corner, News |
Today is the memorial of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the great, and miraculous, victory at Lepanto on October 7th in 1571, when the Christian fleet led by Don Juan of Austria crushed the invading, and seemingly invincible, navy of the Ottoman[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, U.S. Supreme Court |
Although the Supreme Court began its new term Oct. 5, it is hardly business as usual since the court only has eight members on the bench and it is continuing to hear oral arguments by teleconference due to heath concerns.
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