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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
When I was a boy in Hollywood, in the palmy days of the mid-Sixties, my father (in addition to his grocery-and-rent-paying engineering job) wrote screenplays. None of these were ever sold, alas. But while I watched Batman and the Green Hornet, and stood bemused at the antic of the hippies, Dad’s fertile imagination ground out […]
Reading 1 IS 11:1-10
On that day,
A shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse,
and from his roots a bud shall blossom.
The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him:
a Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
A Spirit of counsel and of s…
In his November 29 Angelus address (video), Pope Francis reflected on 1 Corinthians 1:3-9, the second reading of the day.
Read More“Even in these difficult times, in which the whole of humankind is affected by the coronavirus, Pope Francis desires to show his affection for the Church of Constantinople by the presence of a delegation,” said Cardinal Kurt Koch, presiden…
Read MoreThe Royal Commission of Inquiry is hearing testimony from victims of abuse in Catholic, Anglican, and Salvation Army settings.
Read MorePope Francis and Ethiopia’s bishops also appealed for peace after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military intervention in the Tigray region (map).
Read MoreThe 92-ft. tree comes from Slovenia and arrived at the Vatican on November 30 (video).
Read More“Let us keep in mind that not even a murderer loses his personal dignity — God Himself guarantees it,” tweeted Pope Francis, who cited St. John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae (no. 9). :The firm rejection of the death penalty s…
Read MoreThe East African nation of 49.1 million (map) is 61% Protestant, 21% Catholic, 8% Muslim, and 8% ethnic religionist. Pope Francis made an apostolic journey there in 2015.
Read MoreEconomist Stefano Zamagni was named president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in 2019.
Read MorePope Francis offered a Spanish-language reflection as judges from Africa and the Americas took part in a conference.
Read More“In obedience to and in communion with the Holy Father, but more importantly for the good of the Church, on November 16, 2020, I presented my resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Hearst-Moosonee,” said Bishop Robert Bourgon….
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Bethlehem, Catholic Church, Christmas, Church in the Middle East, Church of the Nativity, Holy Land, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, News, Palestine, Palestinian Christians |
The coronavirus has cast a pall over Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace at the height of the normally cheery holiday season.
Read MoreIt looks increasingly as though Vindolanda was the centre of intense Christian activity in the 5th century.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, murdered priest, News, USCCB |
Among the projects approved during an early November meeting of U.S. bishops was aid to a seminary in El Salvador whose rector was killed execution style in August on the side of a road as he headed to his home diocese to celebrate Mass.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Archdiocese of Portland, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Oregon |
More than 400 flag-waving, rosary-toting demonstrators huddled outside the Oregon Capitol Nov. 28 to press against state coronavirus limits on church attendance.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, News, Pandemic, Syria |
The worsening coronavirus pandemic and economic conditions in Syria are further deepening poverty and hardship for Christians, who find themselves trapped in a political stalemate, religious freedom advocates say.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Census, Church in the US, illegal immigration, immigrants and refugees, News, Trump administration, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB |
In oral arguments Nov. 30, the Supreme Court weighed in on President Donald Trump’s order to exclude immigrants living in the country illegally from the 2020 census for purposes of redrawing congressional districts.
Read MoreFollowing his November 29 Angelus address, Pope Francis encouraged pilgrims to “derive some good from the difficult situation that the pandemic imposes on us: greater sobriety, discreet and respectful attention to neighbors who may need it, a few…
Read More“To awaken us from that slumber of mediocrity and lukewarmness, there is the watchfulness of prayer,” Pope Francis preached on November 29, at a Mass celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica with new cardinals (video, booklet). “To …
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