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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Nota in Brevis, Saints |
This memorial of the Guardian Angels – this year trumped by the Sunday, but it’s still good to make a mention – goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin his theses to the church door at Wittenburg on All Hallow’s Eve, with the[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Pope Francis, Weekly Headlines |
Some may be wary of the new book TerraFutura (“FutureWorld”) by Italian environmental activist Carlo Petrini, which features a series of conversations with Pope Francis about “integral ecology” five years after Laudato Si’. In these interviews, the pope comments very truly on something that will help our culture and our planet far more than eco-activism: […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | News, United States |
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York called Judge Amy Coney Barrett the “best candidate” for the Supreme Court vacancy, and said she, like her potential predecessor, faces biases due to her sex, family, and faith
The post Dolan says Barrett is ‘best candidate’ for SCOTUS seat appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read More“The attacks against human life and dignity are more and more atrocious and bring increasingly serious humanitarian consequences for the entire nation,” the bishops said in their statement (Spanish-language text). The Associated Press repo…
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, addressed the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity. “The rise in the temperature of oceans has a devastating impact on many of the world’s coral r…
Read MoreArchbishop Augustine Akubeze of Benin City, president of the bishops’ conference, said, “How can we celebrate when many of our people cannot afford to eat? How can we celebrate when we watch daily, the killings of Nigerians by the insurgent…
Read MoreOn October 1, Pope Francis received Armin Laschet, minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia (map). Laschet paid tribute to St. John Paul II’s work on behalf of Germany unity and said, “We need the freedom of spirit that Pope John Paul I…
Read MoreMass protests have taken place in recent weeks in Argentina and Colombia, and political turmoil has rocked Peru as well.
Read MoreThe Labor Office of the Apostolic See has responsibilities similar to a corporate human resources department (2009 statutes). Bishop Giorgio Corbellini, appointed president in 2009, died in 2019; Salvatore Vecchio, former human resources director of th…
Read More“The long Eucharistic fasting has made us lose the habit of Sunday Mass,” said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. “A new evangelization is urgently needed to make Christians discover that the Eucharis…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Abortion, Abortion law, Abortion rights, Amy Coney Barrett, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, News, Planned Parenthood, President Donald Trump, pro-life, Susan B Anthony List, the pro-life movement, Trump administration |
After years of saying he would appoint “pro-life” judges and bragging that the landmark Roe v. Wade decision would be overturned “automatically” if he won, President Donald Trump is now tiptoeing around the issue as he tries to get another justice confirmed to the Supreme Court before the Nov. 3 election.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in the US, faith and politics, immigrants and refugees, News, Trump administration |
Refugee advocates, including faith-based groups that President Donald Trump is courting in his re-election bid, called on Congress Thursday to halt his administration’s plans to slash the limit on refugees allowed into the U.S. to a record low, saying it goes against America’s values.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Reno, Nevada, News |
A Catholic high school in western Nevada has kept its campus closed this week after two students tested positive for COVID-19.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Cardinal George Pell, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican-China |
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said there is no connection between the timing of the return of Australian Cardinal George Pell to Rome and the recent resignation of Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who are known rivals in the bid to reform the finances of the Holy See.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Bankruptcy, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Diocese of Camden, News |
The Diocese of Camden has filed for bankruptcy, citing revenue losses because of the millions it paid out to clergy abuse victims and the pandemic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | 2020 election, Al Smith Dinner, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities of New York, Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, Joe Biden, lead, News, President Donald Trump |
The name, the cause, and the presence of the two major presidential candidates. That’s about all that remained the same at this year’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Those Catholic Men |
Fr. Edward Leen is too little known. His book Progress in Mental Prayer changed my life. If you’re sick of the current version of yourself (not progressing much at all), or not sure what version you want to be, it might be high time for the spiritual kick in the mouth that Leen starts the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, COVID-19, lead, Lujan, News, Pilgrimage, Pope Francis |
Pope Francis heads tomorrow to the Italian city of Assisi to celebrate the feast day of St. Francis, and to sign his new encyclical letter on human fraternity. It will be his first trip outside of Rome since the COVID-19 pandemic forced him, and most of the world, into lockdown.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | 2020 election, Church in the US, faith and politics, Joe Biden, lead, News, Racism |
With less than five weeks to go until the presidential election, faith leaders are making their pitch for Joe Biden, arguing that he is the best candidate to tackle systemic racism in the country.
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