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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Middle East - Africa, News |
CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2020 / 12:59 am (CNA).- On August 4, a fire in the capital city of Beirut, Lebanon spread to a warehouse containing some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate.
The substance, which had been stored without the proper safety precautions, igni…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Feature1, interview, Interviews, News |
Tells ZENIT ‘When Law Turns on God-given Right to Life, Moral and Legal Integrity of a Country Is Compromised’
The post EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Bishop Barron – When God Is Removed From Society, Human Rights & Values Are Endangered appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Intimacy, Intimacy in marriage, Marriage, News, Simple Holiness |
Intimacy in marriage often seems like it should naturally develop without much effort, almost as if it should be taken for granted as a byproduct of saying, “I do.” And yet, we know that many spouses in marriage struggle with being open to the tension that accompanies intimacy. The experience of being fully known by one’s spouse is one of the most frightening, and most rewarding, experiences in life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Intimacy, Intimacy in marriage, Marriage, News, Simple Holiness |
Intimacy in marriage often seems like it should naturally develop without much effort, almost as if it should be taken for granted as a byproduct of saying, “I do.” And yet, we know that many spouses in marriage struggle with being open to the tension that accompanies intimacy. The experience of being fully known by one’s spouse is one of the most frightening, and most rewarding, experiences in life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Charismatic, Charismatic covenant community, Featured, Local News, News, People of Praise |
About 440 people in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis are among more than 1,600 around the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean who count themselves members of People of Praise, a charismatic covenant community that welcomes all Christians and works for the common good.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, Fratelli Tutti, just war, lead, moral theology, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis’s new encyclical spends only six paragraphs on the Church’s doctrine on “just war,” but Fratelli Tutti might have upended the entire teaching on the subject.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Anglophone crisis, Archdiocese of Bamenda, Cameroon, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News |
Cameroon’s English-speaking bishops are calling on the government to release “political prisoners” by the national government.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Church in the US, Immigration, lead, News, Politics, Sr. Norma Pimentel, U.S.-Mexico border |
Sister Norma Pimentel, who recently made it on this years’ Timr 100 Most Influential People list for her work on the U.S.-Mexico border, has lamented the politicization of the immigration issue, insisting that politics should serve people, not partisan interests.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“When our will is one with God’s will, then nothing can happen to us except what God wills; thus, we will never be disappointed.”— Fulton J. Sheen, Lord, Teach Us To Pray: A Fulton Sheen Anthology
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Talk about bearing fruit in adverse conditions! St. Paul writes this beautiful letter of thanksgiving and encouragement to the Christians of Philippi from his prison cell in Rome. He exhorts them to “have this mind among them which was in Christ Jesus.” He meant the mindset by which Jesus bore the fruit of our salvation […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
On one occasion the saint and Doctor of the Church, Saint Catherine of Siena, was given by God the grace to contemplate one soul in the state of sanctifying grace. Enthralled and captivated by the magnificent beauty of this one soul, the holy woman mystic fell to her knees ready to adore this soul—believing the […]
They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show,…
The post By their deeds. . . appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020, Born-Alive Infants’ Protection Act (2002), Cathy Ruse, Columns, Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), Hadley Arkes, National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, News, President Donald Trump, President Trump and His Executive Order, Rehabilitation Act (Rehab Act), Trump administration |
Hadley Arkes: The President took constructive action to reinforce the 2002 Born-Alive Infants’ Protection Act, but a loss in November will surely negate it.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Commentary, News |
The provisional and secret agreement signed two years ago with China expired on September 22, and the Holy See would…
The post No progress in China appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | In the News, News |
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on Monday said that the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling is already posing problems for…
The post A problem for religious liberty appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | In the News, News |
Italian media have reported allegations that disgraced Cardinal Angelo Becciu transferred several hundred thousand euros from Vatican accounts to an…
The post Becciu: the plot thickens appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Commentary, News |
The president’s choice of Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS is a great one, but it is not the herald of…
The post What to expect and not from Justice Barrett appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Perhaps the most angelic of all the saints is Francis of Assisi. He has become known far and wide as the ‘Seraphic Saint,’ and within the Franciscan family he is called the ‘Seraphic Father.’ In other words, his love for Jesus was so great, so intense, so fiery that he could be compared only to […]
Read MoreSt. Bruno was born in 1030 in Cologne, Germany. He became a priest and achieved fame as a professor of theology at Rheims. He decided to leave the world and pursue a life of complete solitude and prayer. He established his hermitage in Chartreuse, near…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
Martha and Mary are also mentioned in the resurrection of Lazarus.Martha is seemingly the distracted one while Mary is seemingly theinsensitive one. We are confronted with two conditions, to bedistracted or to sit quietly. When we divert our attention or focusfrom a focal point we become distracted. To sit quietly is to be morefocused. There […]
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