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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
“You can’t judge a book by its cover” is a truism. Nonetheless, that does not lessen the value of a book’s title. Selecting the right title is important, like giving the right name to your child. I chose The Shape of Love to introduce my book about the importance of moral virtue, and its rootedness […]
Reading 1 1 JN 1:5—2:2
Beloved:
This is the message that we have heard from Jesus Christ
and proclaim to you:
God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
If we say, “We have fellowship with him,”
while we continue to walk …
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Joe Biden, Magazine, News, Opinion, president-elect, therapeutic technocracy, US politics, US society |
A soft, therapeutic technocracy can promise more and deliver less than a hard technocratic regime devoted to, say, cold fusion or the abolition of age.
The post Joe Biden’s Creed appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | 2020, Argentina, Chile, Church in the Americas, COVID-19, Latin America, lead, Mexico, News, Nicaragua, Peru, Pope Francis, Venezuela, year wrap |
Not only were many situations in Latin America not put on pause by COVID-19 during 2020, they were actually exacerbated by the virus.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Amoris Laetitia, Angelus, Associated Press, Catholic Church, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed an upcoming year dedicated to the family as he doubled down on one of his papal priorities and urged renewed attention to his controversial 2016 document on family life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Discalced Carmelites, Latin, lead, News, Obituary, Pontifical Gregorian University, Reggie Foster, Secretariat of State, Vatican |
Father Reggie Foster was living proof that being indispensable is the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Belarus, Christmas, Church in Europe, lead, News, peace |
After his return from a 4-month exile, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk used his Christmas liturgies to plead for unity, reconciliation, and forgiveness amid his country’s ongoing political upheaval.
Read MoreThe political philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once observed that the surest obstacle preventing someone from seeing the “facts” in front of them is their particular theoretical vision of the world. In other words, if I am […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Reformation, The Facts of Life |
The Facts of Life Series: The Reformation The Reformation is one of history’s great misnomers. For it reformed almost nothing then and now. A more apt name for that era would be the Deformation, though that name is probably too benign, given the devastating effects of this movement and its many derivations that have so infected […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Catholic Life, Featured, Holy Days & Feasts, News |
Image: Massacre of the Innocents, Peter Paul Rubens Memento mori: remember death. The last vestiges of colorful wrapping paper have not yet been whisked away by the garbage men. There is still leftover rib roast in the fridge. We have only […]
The post Rachel’s Lament: The Feast of the Holy Innocents appeared first on OnePeterFive.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Abortion, Angels, Blessed Virgin Mary, Christmas, Feast of the Holy Innocents, Featured, Herod, Holy Family, innocent human life, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, Magi, martyrdom, Martyrs, News, preparation, pro-life, prolife, Satan, St. Joseph, surrender, trust |
On the fourth day of our Christmas celebration, the Church reminds us that not everyone is joyful; that there exist those who are not of goodwill who do not wish to receive the season’s glad tidings. Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents in which th…
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The Catholic Church is too big to fail, too true to flounder, and too divine to collapse. But, the Catholic Church is in need of revival. The multitudes have been deserting the Church for centuries because of the heinous actions of the clergy because we equate faith with the wrong thing, rather person. The publishing […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
Herod didn’t want the newborn King of the Jews to live beyondinfancy, at least not as long as Herod was in power. His solutionwas to immediately destroy anyone who poses a threat to his power,pleasure, wealth, ease or comfort. It’s amazing to think to what extent Herod would go to assure hisundiminished power. He would […]
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Aside from the Crucifixion, the massacre of the Holy Innocents may be the most seemingly senseless and horrific acts of violence recorded in the Bible. Herod was one of the cruelest dictators of his time. In a time of empire, his kingdom was unremarkable and small, but Herod clung to what power he did have […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | 2020, Benedict XVI, Columns, James Matthew Wilson, John Paul II, Laudato Si, Love Hope Faith, News, Pope Francis, Recovering the Theology of Creation, Romano Guardini End of the Modern World, St. John Paul, The Catholic Thing |
James M. Wilson: Our three most-recent popes have argued that care of the natural world means opposing the modern utilitarian spirit.
The post Recovering the Theology of Creation appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read More“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Those who die in Christ are alive in Christ, and by virtue of their union with Christ, they can hear our prayers when we pray to them. They remember us, and they can pray for us.”
-James L. Papandrea, What Really Happens After We Die
Read MoreA Catholic seminarian was killed on Christmas Eve on the Indonesian island of Papua. The body of Zhage Sil was found in a ditch. Police have not yet found the killers, nor a motive for the crime.
Read More“I have never said anything against Belarus,” Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz proclaimed after his return from exile. At Christmas Mass, the Archbishop of Minsk called for reconciliation in the country, while underlining the need for relig…
Read MorePope Francis has issued a motu proprio formally removing investment funds from the control of the Secretariat of State. The decree, completing a transfer that the Pontiff had ordered in August, requires the Secretariat of State to surrender all funds t…
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