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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Archdiocese of Washington, Black Catholics, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, consistory 2020, News |
On Nov. 28, Pope Francis elevated 13 new cardinals from around the world to the College of Cardinals at a consistory in Rome. Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, who has been Washington’s archbishop since 2019, was among them.
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have been various kinds of miracles that make up the patrimony of the Catholic
Church. One category of such miracles is eucharistic miracles. Catholics
believe every time a priest prays the words of consecration over the bread and
wine—“this is m…
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Church and World, Feature2, mcnamara, News |
A Possible Option in the Roman Rite
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Funerals, News, Trinidad and Tobago |
At the funeral, Lewis’ body was presented sitting in a chair while wearing a suit and sunglasses.
The post Extreme Embalming in Trinidad doesn’t sit well with Church appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
CNA Staff, Nov 30, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- Cardinal George Pell has spoken of his surprise at the apparent extent of “criminality” involved in recent Vatican financial scandals. Speaking in an interview with Associated […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Irish Republican Army, News, Northern Ireland, Troubles, UK government, United Kingdom |
Britain’s government said Monday that it has decided against holding a public inquiry into the murder more than three decades ago of a Belfast attorney who specialized in defending Irish Republican Army suspects.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Church in Oceania, News, second, Vatican |
The pope’s former treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, said Monday he feels a dismayed sense of vindication as the financial mismanagement he tried to uncover in the Holy See is now being exposed in a spiraling Vatican corruption investigation.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Climate change, development, foreign aid, Interviews, lead, News, South Sudan |
South Sudan has been beset by civil conflict since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. However, that is not the only challenge it faces: It is one of the country’s most threatened by the effects of climate change.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, lead, McCarrick report, News, Poland, Pope John Paul II |
Nearly 1500 academics in Poland have written an appeal against “slandering and rejecting John Paul II” after the publication of the McCarrick report by the Vatican on November 10.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Church in Asia, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Japan, lead, News, Pope Francis |
As the number suicides in Japan mount amid the ongoing fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s bishops have issued a statement for the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s visit last year calling, among other things, for solidarity with the poor and an end to discrimination against the infected.
Read MoreBelgium’s Catholic bishops are asking for talks with the government about emergency restrictions that would suspend all public celebrations of the Mass until at least January 15.
Read MoreIn an Associated Press interview, Cardinal George Pell said that he was caught off guard by the extent of financial corruption at the Vatican. “I didn’t know that there was so much criminality involved,” he said—although he ackn…
Read MoreThe Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico has announced plans to eliminate 20 employees, and stop publication its monthly magazine. The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2018.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
I once informed my mother that I would be coming home from college at a particular date. Being the crazy college student that I was then, I changed my mind and returned home a day later without informing her of the change. I never thought it was a big deal until I learned later that […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Best of Week, Books and Art, Featured, News, spiritual direction, Spiritual Reading |
To advance in our spiritual life, we should utilize all of the means, methods, and practices that are at our disposal. Jesus calls all of us to seriously pursue our own sanctification, as well as the sanctification of the whole world. His words are clear and to the point: “Be holy as your heavenly Father is […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Advent, alert, Featured, Gospel, Jesus Christ, News, Saints, Scripture, St. Mark, Sunday Scripture Reflections, vigilance, waiting, watchfulness |
During a time when parties and endless carols dull our spiritual senses, the message of Advent urges to wake up and be alert and vigilant. Our society is asleep spiritually. Here are some ideas to rouse ourselves, our famlies and our neighbors to a p…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | 2020, America on Trial, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Hadley Arkes, Natural Law, News, Reason Revelation and the American Regime, Richard Hooker, Robert Reilly, St. Robert Bellarmine, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Jefferson |
Hadley Arkes: The American Founding was ultimately Catholic because it invoked natural law and natural rights to justify the cause of liberty.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | In the News, News |
Cardinal George Pell, who was convicted and then acquitted of sexual abuse in his native Australia, reflects on the nature…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | In the News, News |
Marin County prosecutors have filed felony vandalism charges against five people after a mob destroyed a statue of St. Junípero…
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Read MoreO God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and…
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