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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Editor's Corner, Featured Highlights, News |
A blessed continuing ‘merrie Christmas!’ to all our readers, as we celebrate all these twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism of our Lord. So keep those lights and candles burning, the decorations up! Christmas has just begun! Today is the memorial of Saint Thomas à Becket, the glorious bishop of Canterbury[…]
The post Saint Thomas à Becket’s 850th appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Church in Ireland, News |
The 66-year-old Archbishop-elect Farrell was ordained a priest in 1980. He did advanced study at Maynooth and in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, before becoming and administrator and eventually President of St Patrick’s Seminary, Maynooth, in 1996.
The post Pope Francis names Bishop Dermot Farrell to Archdiocese of Dublin appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreBishop Farrell, 66, was president of Ireland’s national seminary (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth) from 1996 to 2007; Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Ossory in 2018. He succeeds Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, 75, who has led the Dublin ar…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Christmas, News, patience, prudence, purity, St. Joseph, Those Catholic Men |
“It’s no mistake” I said to Mike, “that every Catholic church has an image of St. Joseph up front.” Mike had come for confession and counseling over his failures as a husband and father. He had got caught up in the trap of pornography and ambition. He made some bad, short cut decisions. Stress built […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | News, Pilgrimage, Saints, Thomas Becket, Top Story |
Catholic Herald chairman William Cash recently walked the first part of the so-called “Becket Way” from Southwark Cathedral into Kent, a relatively new pilgrimage route from Southwark to Canterbury.
The post The road to Canterbury: Why St Thomas Becket still fascinates 850 years after his murder appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
I was in Boston on the weekend the Associated Press, and other esteemed arbiters of American democracy (Fox News, CNN, et cetera, et cetera,) preemptively declared Joseph R. Biden, Jr.—nominal son of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and of the Roman Catholic Church—the forty-sixth President of the United States. You’d think the Patriots had just won the Super […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
When an Episcopalian cleric–cum-Dartmouth professor criticizes the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, it’s a safe bet our prelates have done something right. Indeed, such a man—one Randall Balmer—wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times titled, “In What Moral Universe Does Biden Require a Catholic Task Force when Trump Got a Free Pass?” No need […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | News, News Briefs, Pope Benedict XVI, spiritual direction, St. Teresa of Avila, US |
Denver, Colo., Dec 29, 2020 / 03:00 am (CNA).- Chatting with Lee McDowell is a peaceful experience.
Seated in a comfy leather chair in a rust-colored office near downtown Denver, McDowell serenely and thoughtfully explains the “art and science&#…
Read MoreThere is an idea among some Protestants that all sin is equal. Although tacitly recognizing that certain sinful actions are morally worse than others, they seem to get hung up on the idea that any sin is imperfection and any imperfection will keep some…
Read MoreReadings for the Optional Memorial of Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr
Reading 1 1 JN 2:3-11
Beloved:
The way we may be sure that we know Jesus
is to keep his commandments.
Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not keep his com…
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | APSA, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, Father Juan Antonio Guerrero, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Secretariat for the Economy, Secretariat of State, Vatican finances, Vatican reform |
Pope Francis has taken away away the power of the purse from the Secretariat of State, traditionally the Vatican’s 800-pound gorilla, and transferred it to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the Vatican’s central bank. At the same time, he beefed up the oversight role of the Secretariat for the Economy.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | 2020, Aid to the Church in Need, Argentina, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Latin America, lead, Mexico, News, Venezuela, year wrap |
Although 2020 seemed to be a year in which time stood still, Latin America continued to be a region in turmoil.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Black Catholics, Black Lives Matter, Brazil, Catholic Church, Church History, Church in the Americas, lead, News, slavery |
In a year the Black Lives Matter movement spread across the globe, Brazilians are beginning to focus on the role the Catholic Church played in the institution of slavery in the country.
Read MoreUnderlying the medieval images of courtly love featuring unicorns we find Christ and his mother.
The post Save the unicorn appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Bishop Alberto Rojas, Bishop Gerald Barnes, Diocese of San Bernardino, Free Access, News, Vatican News |
San Bernardino has one of the highest concentrations of Hispanics in California. According to the United States Census Bureau, 54.4% of the county’s 2.2 million population is of Hispanic or Latino origin.
The post Bishop Rojas takes helm in San Bernardino diocese appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
A little Filipino girl approached me on the street begging for food some years ago. I handed her a can of soda drink I had with me. I was surprised when she did not open the can but ran across the street to her mother and her little brother who were also begging on the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 29, 2020 | Catholic Life, News |
“Relativism, that terribly effective bleach, has wiped out everything in its path.” –Robert Cardinal Sarah, The Day is Now Far Spent Precis: The foundations of the good political order are grounded upon, and are faithful to, virtues discovered by […]
The post Now that the Foundations are Destroyed appeared first on OnePeterFive.
Read MoreBoth the myths and the Scriptures understand that sexual differentiation has its most profound meaning in the separation of man from God, but in the myths this separation represents a loss of divinity; it is only in the Scriptures that the male-female distinction is part of the glory of man.
The post A Revolutionary View of Gender appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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Our relation to the saints The Christian has a lively consciousness of his connection with those departed who were linked to him by blood, love, or spiritual affinity. He hopes for a reunion with them in the life to come; he thinks of the purification which they may have to undergo to attain “the glorious […]
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