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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, corporate social responsibility, Ethical investments, Impact investment, News |
Rule alterations by the Securities and Exchange Commission on shareholder resolutions will result in higher hurdles for shareholder activists, according to leaders for two faith-based investor groups.
Read More“A Spanish association of Christian lawyers recently submitted a complaint of anti-Catholicism against the Spanish government at the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) over a highly controversial art performance involving stolen consecrated h…
Read MoreBorn in 1940, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has led the Maronite Church since 2011. Based in Bkerké, Lebanon, the church (CNEWA profile) is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See.
Read MoreThe revised Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act is a $2.2-trillion House bill that includes $225 billion in education funding. The bill prohibits these funds from assisting students who are not in public schools&mdash…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, rosary, San Francisco |
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led between 600 and 700 people in a rosary rally through the city’s Mission District Oct. 3, the vigil of the feast of San Francisco’s patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, China, Church in China, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican China deal, Vatican diplomacy |
Archbishop Gallagher’s remarks came in an interview with Crux.
The post Top Vatican diplomat to Crux: Cautious optimism on China deal appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Arts, Editor's Picks, Magazine, News |
The exhibition explains the Christian concept of sin and salvation to an audience that may never have heard it before
The post The National Gallery’s surprisingly orthodox exhibition on sin appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
Great Britain’s parliamentary democracy has no constitutional text, but rather a “constitution” composed of centuries of legal traditions and precedents. So when British courts make grave mistakes, those mistakes can be fixed, more or less […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, Oct 7, 2020 / 12:43 am (CNA).- While wearing physical masks may protect the lives of others during a pandemic, there is another type of mask – an invisible, spiritual mask – that hides us from our responsibility as a Christians, warned Bisho…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Bishops, China, Interviews, lead, Mike Pompeo, News, provisional agreement, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy, Vatican-China |
Part one of a three-part Crux interview with British Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, effectively the Vatican’s Foreign Minister, in which he says the Vatican expects its controversial deal with China to be renewed by the end of the month.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | architecture, Books, Catholic Church, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Churches, England, Great Britain, lead, News, United Kingdom |
Long overshadowed by the country’s Anglican structures, England’s Catholic churches are put under the spotlight in a new book.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Books, Catholic Church, Catholic social teaching, Interviews, lead, Mark Shea, News |
Charles Camosy speaks to Mark Shea about his new book, ‘The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching’
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Elisabeth Leseur, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Love, News |
“Why complain when we can act? Why hate, since hate destroys, when that divine love enlivens and transforms our hearts?” – Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur, Magnificat July 2020 Until recently, debate fueled my passion and challenged my intellect. As a kid, I relished being right. It was the highest honor to achieve in conversation. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Cynthia Erlandson. Foundations of the Cross I. The First Generation: Abraham Takes Up His Loss “And he went out, not knowing where he went.” — Hebrews 11: 8 “For hope that is seen is not…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
We should begin with what is most obvious in the Rosary. An aid is used in this prayer: a string or a chain of beads. Some of these beads are larger or are marked apart from the others by a greater distance. Ten smaller beads follow a larger one and form a decade. The whole […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | 2020, Alien, Alien Covenant, Arthur C. Clark, C. S. Lewis, Columns, Francis X. Maier, Kingdom of Heaven, News, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, Prometheus, Raised by Wolves, religion in science fiction, Ridley Scott, That Hideous Strength, The Nine Billion Names of God |
Francis X. Maier on a new sci-fi epic. What’s missing is precisely anything resembling or ennobling the human soul, suggesting it was created by wolves.
The post Raised by Wolves appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | American Catholics, Culture, Featured, Missionaries, News |
When the going gets tough, the tough get going, or so goes the saying. In these turbulent times of ecclesial crisis, a flashback to the early days of the Catholic Church in America—days in which plenty of tough folks faced plenty of tough goings—would serve well to remind us that, even in the most dire […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Commentary, News |
During the coronavirus lockdown, many people have found themselves, well, down — emotionally and intellectually. There’s an ancient word for…
The post What the world feels now: acedia appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | Commentary, News |
On one level “human respect” seems like a good thing. After all, we ought to respect, honor and appreciate one…
The post The sin of “human respect” appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | In the News, News |
One of Pope Francis’s top advisers said that the pontiff sees the current world situation comparable to that of the…
The post Papal adviser: encyclical says “we’re on the brink” appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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