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Posted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church attack, Church in Europe, France, Islamic extremists, News, Nice |
Churches around France held Sunday services honoring three people killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice that pushed the country into high security alert, while police questioned six suspects in the case.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, France, Greek Orthodox, News, Orthodox Church |
A Greek Orthodox parishioner who was recently caught on video scuffling with a Lyon priest who was shot outside his church and hospitalized over the weekend says local police raided his home on Monday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | All Soul's Day, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Cemeteries, Church in the US, News, Salt Lake City, Utah |
In the historical area of Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery is a wide swath of grass unmarked by headstones.
Read More“What I have to do as the archbishop is to encourage those who are working for racial and societal justice to carry on and to intensify,” the cardinal-designate said. ‘And I have to invite those who are negative and are clinging to ra…
Read MoreThe Dies Irae – ‘Day of Wrath’ – is a 13th century sequence preparing us for the final judgement, composed perhaps by the Franciscan Friar Thomas of Celano, or the Dominican Friar Latino Malabranca Orsini, or even by Saint Bonaventure, Bernard of Clairvaux, or Pope Gregory I. Whoever its author be, its haunting chant melody[…]
The post Why We Still Need the Dies Irae appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German Church, Germany, lay movements, News, Schonstatt |
After causing a stir with her article about Father Joseph Kentenich in the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost in July, Rome-based church historian Alexandra von Teuffenbach has now presented evidence to back her accusations in her book titled Father Is Allowed to Do It!
Read MoreFather Hugh Barbour explains the two judgments. What happens at our particular judgment? What happens at the general judgment? And what does all of this have to do with ghosts who might need some help?
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What happens when God judges you? Father Hugh…
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, News |
It’s one thing to read about mistakes and wrongdoing in the criminal justice system, especially when it comes to death penalty cases, but it’s quite another thing to hear firsthand from someone who had been in prison for 12 years, including nearly 10 years on death row, for a crime he didn’t commit.
Read MoreOn the Solemnity of All Saints, Pope Francis encouraged everyone to follow the model of the saints, who pursued virtue in contradiction to the ways …
The post Pope Francis: The saints are ‘authoritative witnesses of Christian hope’ appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreAt the Nov. 1 Mass of Thanksgiving for newly beatified Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore said …
The post ‘He lived the Beatitudes’: Mass of Thanksgiving for Blessed Michael McGivney appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
A blessed All Souls’ Day to all our readers. Here is an article from our archives, which sums up the Church’s tradition of praying for the dead quite nicely. And please do keep in mind that the Church offers a plenary indulgence for praying for the holy souls in a cemetery during the next eight[…]
The post Praying for and with All the Holy Souls appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Nov 2, 2020 / 03:30 am (CNA).- Polish pro-lifers are inviting Catholics around the world to join a global rosary initiative that launched on Sunday.
The “Rosary to the Gates of Heaven” event, which takes place Nov. 1-8, ho…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Editor's Corner, News |
(I wrote this upon visiting my grandparents’ graves in Scotland two years ago, but seems a propos for this time as we especially remember our dead, and speed them into that heavenly kingdom…Editor) If for the Romanas it was ‘dulce et decorum pro patribus mori, sweet and proper to die for one’s nation, literally, one’s[…]
The post Remembering Those Who Came Before Us appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreThe protests took place on October 30, the day after the terrorist attack at the Basilica of Notre Dame in Nice, France.
Read MoreThe east-central Indian state of Chhattisgarh (map), where the attacks have taken place, is 93% Hindu, 2% Muslim, and 2% Christian.
Read MoreCardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, who has led the Chaldean Catholic Church since 2013, issued his statement following the Pope’s endorsement of same-sex civil union legislation.
Read MoreThe 13-year-old Catholic girl was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to a middle-aged man.
Read More“It is thus a source of deep anguish now that the Government is requiring, once again, the cessation of public communal worship,” the bishops of England and Wales said following the announcement of new national restrictions. “Whilst …
Read MoreFather José Manuel de Jesus Ferreira, SCJ, was parish priest of the diocesan Eucharistic shrine in the Diocese of San Carlos. He was murdered as he was greeting parishioners after Mass.
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