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Gunmen killed at least seven children in an attack on a school in the Central African nation (map). At his weekly general audience, Pope Francis prayed for the victims.
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The recent arrest of Father Travis John Clark of Saints Peter and Paul Church in Pearl River, Louisiana, opened up a rather lurid story. Apparently, the cleric in question had hired two self-described dominatrices to engage in sex with him. On the altar. On camera. One of the… ah, ladies in question had posted on […]
“I think at this time of health care workers, especially early on in the crisis of the pandemic, who worked themselves to exhaustion, at risk to their own health and even their own lives in this pandemic,” San Francisco’s archbishop …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | 2020 election, Abortion, Featured, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
A friend of mine recently called the police to lodge a complaint about a Halloween display in her neighborhood: a life-size figure of the horror-movie slasher, Freddy Krueger holding the bloody, butchered body of a baby in his clawed hands. The police responded that the display was not illegal in any way. My friend, intrepid […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Charlotte, Church in the US, News, the pro-life movement, Vandalism |
Police were investigating recent thefts of pro-life signs from four parish churches and two schools in the Diocese of Charlotte.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, College of Cardinals, Malaysia, News, Obituary |
Malaysia’s first and only cardinal, Cardinal Anthony Soter Fernandez, died Oct. 28 at the age of 88.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | 2020 election, Abortion, Donald J. Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, News, Politics |
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Poland, Polish bishops |
Poland’s bishops thanked citizens for protecting places of worship from protesters angered by new abortion curbs and urged an end to current violence.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, March for Life, News, the pro-life movement |
While the annual March for Life in Washington is still scheduled for Jan. 29, the cross-country bus pilgrimages that have been at the heart of the event for decades are being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, France, Islamic extramism, News, Nice, second, Terrorism, terrorist attack |
French bishops ordered a “death knell” to ring from every church of their country Oct. 29 after three people were hacked to death in a basilica in the southern Mediterranean city of Nice.
Read More“Informed of the savage attack that was perpetrated this morning in a church in Nice, causing the death of several innocent people, His Holiness Pope Francis joins in prayer with the suffering of the families affected, and shares their sorrow,&rd…
Read MoreIn September, Cardinal-designate Mario Grech succeeded Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri as Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops. “Rather than taking a more top to bottom approach, my aim, as well as the Church’s, is to see what challenges p…
Read MoreCardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia, 78, is president of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
Read MoreFollowing the death of Malaysia’s first cardinal, Pope Francis prayed for the repose of his soul and expressed “gratitude for Cardinal [Anthony Soter] Fernandez’s faithful witness to the Gospel, his generous service to the Church in …
Read More[This week Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco spoke with Phil Lawler of CWN about a piece that appeared on this site last month (”Two cheers for Archbishop Cordileone”). The results of that conversation will appear in a new pi…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Associated Press, California, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Los Angeles, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty |
When other church leaders protested coronavirus shutdown orders, saying they were following the word of the Lord, pastor Joe Garcia said he followed the word of the law.
Read MoreSegovia, Spain, Oct 30, 2020 / 12:50 am (CNA).- After 10 years without an ordination, the Diocese of Segovia in Spain celebrated the diaconal ordination of Álvaro Marín, a 24-year-old seminarian last Sunday.
The new deacon received forma…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Anti-Christian persecution, Archbishop Joseph Arshad, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, forced conversion, lead, News, Pakistan |
Catholic leaders in Pakistan are demanding the government “take serious notice” of the kidnapping and forced conversion and marriage of Christian girl in Karachi earlier this month.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Algeria, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, International Christian Concern, Interviews, lead, News, religious liberty |
Ahead of a Nov. 1 referendum on changing Algeria’s constitution, a leading Christian rights organization is voicing concerns over the possible effects on religious freedom.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, General Audience, Italy, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb in Italy and the government rolls out tighter restrictions, the Vatican is also taking steps to stop the spread, including the suspension again of all public papal events.
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