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CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Face coverings must be worn outdoors within the territory of Vatican City State to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a Vatican official announced Tuesday.
In a Oct. 6 letter to Vatican department heads, B…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Archbishop Mark Coleridge, CAFOD, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Fratelli Tutti, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, We are Church |
Pope Francis’s new social encyclical offers a vision for the world of dignity for every person around the world and promotes a call to “build a new culture of fraternity and dialogue,” said the president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Erin O’Leary, Faith formation, Holy Name, Local News, News, St. Ambrose |
Faith formation will look quite different this year at Holy Name in south Minneapolis.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Family Formation, Father Timothy Nolan, Ham Lake, Lindahl, Local News, National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, News, St. Paul in Ham Lake |
Seven years after Father Timothy Nolan began serving as the first pastor of St. Paul in Ham Lake in 1981, he said its traditional CCD program — with parents dropping off children for weekly instruction — wasn’t working.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Archbishop Socrates Villegas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, News, Philippines |
A Philippine archdiocese has expanded a long-running food program for poor people to prevent deeper turmoil from economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreThe Diocese of Evry, just south of the French capital, officially launched a synod process last Sunday, the fourth in its 54-year history
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Bishop Mark Brennan, Blue Mass, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, News, West Virginia |
West Virginia’s Catholic bishop had a message Sept. 29 for members of police and fire departments, Emergency Medical Services personnel and those serving in the U.S. military: “Hold your heads high. You have noble professions.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, covid, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Ireland, News, Republic of Ireland |
Catholics in the Republic of Ireland are experiencing “obvious disappointment” after the government announced public worship won’t be allowed beginning Wednesday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Archdiocese of New York, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, COVID-19 coronavirus, Diocese of Brooklyn, Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York, New York City, News |
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order closing all schools in “hot zones” where cases of COVID-19 seem to be increasing is “a broad-brush approach that penalizes all schools, children and families needlessly,” said the New York State Catholic Conference.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Fratelli Tutti, News, Pope Francis, US bishops, USCCB |
In his new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” Pope Francis reminds the faithful that “God’s plan for humanity has implications for every aspect of our lives,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, Church in Europe, German bishops, German Church, Germany, martyr, martyrdom, Nazis, News |
Early 20th century-era Catholic leader Erich Klausener holds a special place in the hearts and minds of Berlin’s Catholics.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Asia - Pacific, News |
Rome Newsroom, Oct 6, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Ahead of the expected renewal of the Vatican-China deal this month, the former underground bishop of Mindong has announced his complete resignation from public life.
Bishop Guo Xijin, 62, wrote in a letter…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Ethical, Ethics, Making Sense Out of Bioethics, Mandate, News |
Virginia State Health Commissioner, Dr. Norman Oliver, told a local news station in August 2020 that he planned to mandate COVID-19 immunizations for Virginians once a vaccine becomes available to the public.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Latest News Releases, News |
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest edict: Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York are witnessing a spike in coronavirus infections, and the response by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is to shut down all…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | News, Same-sex "Marriage", United States, US Supreme Court |
Two US Supreme Court Justices have levelled criticism at the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which guaranteed marriage as a right to same-sex couples.
The post US SCOTUS Justices Thomas, Alito criticise same-sex marriage decision appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreTurkish authorities have expelled more and more Protestant Christians over the past two years on grounds they constitute a “threat to national security”
Read MoreChristian thought is not opposed to the prospect of profit, but rather it is opposed to profit at any cost, Francis told officials of a top Italian investment bank
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