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“There are so many bad things that lead us to despair, to believe that everything will be a final defeat, that after death there is nothing,” Pope Francis preached in an extemporaneous homily on All Souls’ Day at the Teutonic Cemete…
Read MoreAt a time when supporting your local retailers is a way of helping them weather the COVID-19 storm, one ice cream shop hiding in the shade of St. Peter’s Basilica that has one special faithful customer: Pope Francis.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, Europe, lead, Mass, News, Religious Freedom |
As Europe faces a new wave of coronavirus lockdowns, public worship is once again on hold in some places but still allowed in others.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | 2020 election, Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, Donald Trump, faith and politics, Faithful Citizenship, lead, News, Vice President Joe Biden |
Former Vice President and democratic nominee Joe Biden could become the first Catholic president since President John F. Kennedy was elected 60 years ago if voters choose him to occupy the Oval Office on Tuesday.
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Why is public life collapsing? Why the falsehoods? The slanders? The contempt and hatred for fellow citizens? The open sympathy for political violence? The indifference to truth, even among those who claim to be its […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Dominican Order, Featured, Martin de Porres, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts |
Thomas Aquinas compared love to a furnace, and the more powerful the furnace, the farther will it warm with its heat. St. Martin de Porres strove to bring that love to the ends of the world.
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
It is not unusual to hear statements such as this whenever the issue of clergy sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church comes up: “The Catholic Church is the safest place now for children because we are far ahead of any other church or institution in the prevention, reporting, and dealing with issues related to […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Best of Week, Church Triumphant, Featured, News, Saints |
Every year, the Church joyfully celebrates the Feast of All Saints. A classical ecclesiastical model divides the Church into three parts, but all belonging to the same family of God: the Church Triumphant, the saints in heaven, the Church Militant, those living soldiers on earth, fighting for their salvation, and finally, the Church Suffering—the souls […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | 2020, Abortion, Bernard Nathanson, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Eugene Scalia as Secretary of Labor, Hadley Arkes, Joe Biden, Mike Pompeo at State, News, Pat Cippolone as White House Council, President Donald J. Trump, Robert Bork, Ted Kennedy, The Catholic Thing, William Barr as Attorney General, “flawed” candidates |
Hadley Arkes: Biden, nominal Catholic, has led the Democratic Party to its extreme pro-abortion position. Trump is pro-life.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Best of Week, election, Featured, News, podcast, Podcasts, Politics, Pope Francis |
It’s election day! The citizens of the United States will cast their ballots today after a long, strange, and frustrating election season. While many websites and channels will be covering the breaking news with analysis and predictions, Michael and returning guest Derek Rotty want to look to how we live our faith post 2020, no […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | In the News, News |
The clarifications explain that the pope’s comments do not pertain to Catholic doctrine regarding the nature of marriage as a…
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Read MorePresenting oneself to receive Holy Communion should be a conscious decision, based on a reasoned judgment regarding one’s worthiness to…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | In the News, News |
Andrew Thomas Walther, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News, died Sunday evening on All Saints Day in New…
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Many people think of Purgatory primarily in terms of punishment, but it is also important to consider it in terms…
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Francis dislikes the United States in general and its president in particular. That’s not surprising; so do most Argentinians. What…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“By the Eucharist, God is present to us; by Communion, we enter into intimacy with Him.”
-St. Peter Julian Eymard, How to Get More Out of Holy Communion
Read MoreToday the Church celebrates the optional memorial of St. Martin de Porres, religious, who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited th…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
Today is the feast of Martin de Porres. St. Martin’s life is a perfect fulfillment of today’s first reading by St. Paul. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru at 1579. He was an illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman who went to Peru in search of gold and silver. His mother was a […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | black saints, Dominicans, News, Peru, Racism, Today's Saint |
On May 16, 1962, Pope John XXIII, in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, made Martin de Porres the first black American saint. Martin was born on December 9, 1579, in Lima, Peru, the illegitimate son of Don Juan de Porres of Burgos, a Spanish nobleman, and Ana Velasquez, a young, freed, Negro […]
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