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Five years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report, there is agreement that strides have been made in the journey towards healing with Canada’s Indigenous peoples.
But Church officials and Indigenous leaders recogni…
Read MoreVatican City, Dec 27, 2020 / 04:16 am (CNA).- Pope Francis announced Sunday a special year dedicated to the family, marking the fifth anniversary of the publication of his apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia.
In his Angelus address Dec. 27, the feas…
Read MoreReading 1 SIR 3:2-6, 12-14
God sets a father in honor over his children;
a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons.
Whoever honors his father atones for sins,
and preserves himself from them.
When he prays, he is heard;
he stor…
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 27, 2020 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Catholic vote, church-state relations, COVID-19 coronavirus, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal health, President Donald Trump, President-elect Joseph Biden, progressives |
The now-commonplace expression “the dog that didn’t bark” means that sometimes the fact something one would have expected to happen didn’t is the key to understanding a situation.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 27, 2020 | Burkina Faso, Catholic, Christmas, Church in Europe, Holy Land, Honduras, lead, News, Pope Francis, Spain, Venezuela |
ROSARIO, Argentina — When history books look back on how the Catholic Church experienced Christmas 2020, no matter where that history is written, inevitably the COVID-19 pandemic will loom large. In Rome and around the world, bishops and other Catholic leaders called for vaccines to be made available to poor
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 27, 2020 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Call to Holiness, Daily Reflection, Domestic Church, family, Featured, holiness, Holy Family, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, Nazareth, News, peace, St. Joseph |
The Holy Family The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates the holiness and joy of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph of Nazareth. By celebrating this feast during the Christmas season, the Church wants us to see the important link between the birt…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 27, 2020 | Commentary, News |
Joseph was, by all accounts, a just man. He sought to honor God in everything he did, and we see how such an adherence to God transformed him and gave him divine wisdom.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 27, 2020 | 2020, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, father of Jesus, Father Paul D. Scalia, Gen 41:55, go to Joseph, husband of Mary, Ite ad Joseph, Jesus Christ, Lk 2:22-48, News, Patris Corde, Pope Francis, Ps 44:1, Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of Saint Joseph, St. Joseph, The Catholic Thing, The Father We Need, wokeism, Year of St. Joseph |
Fr. Paul D. Scalia: The fatherhood of St. Joseph’s shows the importance of imparting wisdom, patrimony, and identity to all children.
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Read MoreScripture tells us practically nothing about the first years and the boyhood of the Child Jesus. All we know are the facts of the sojourn in Egypt, the return to Nazareth, and the incidents that occurred when the twelve-year-old boy accompanied his par…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | liturgical year, News |
Of all the tremendous mysteries of our faith, there is none more stupefying in its reality than the Incarnation. That God would deign to assume human flesh is a staggering fact, and it is one that a thousand different heresies has sought to doubt or deny. And yet, it is a fast so critical to […]
The post The God in the Stable: A Christmas Meditation appeared first on The Catholic Gentleman.
Read MoreBishop Thomas Dowd is ready to embrace whatever comes his way as the newly installed Bishop of Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario.
Leaving behind his Montreal hometown, where he has spent his entire life and served as auxiliary bishop since 2011, Do…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Angelus, Feature1, Feature2, Feature3, martyr, News, saint stephen |
Feast Day of First Martyr
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Read MoreVatican City, Dec 26, 2020 / 09:01 am (CNA).- Be a witness to Jesus Christ in the way you conduct your ordinary, everyday life, and it will become a masterpiece for God, Pope Francis encouraged Saturday.
Speaking on the Feast of St. Stephen the Martyr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Benedict XVI, Holy Family, Jesus Christ, Joseph, Mary, News, Sirach, St. Paul, The Dispatch, Trinity |
On the Readings for Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Congregation for Eastern Churches, News, second, Vatican |
With a North American charity as its main collaborator, the Congregation for Eastern Churches’ COVID-19 emergency fund distributed more than $11.7 million in aid, including food and hospital ventilators in 21 countries where members of the Eastern Catholic churches live.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christmas, Church in the US, Diocese of Green Bay, Homeless, Homelessness, News, Wisconsin |
Making gingerbread houses is a Christmas tradition for some families, especially those with German ancestry.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Nuns, Religious Life |
Virtually addressing members of consecrated life serving the Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory spoke of the challenges of the past year and thanked them for the work they do.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Angelus, Christmas, lead, News, Pope Francis, saints and martyrs, Vatican |
Pope Francis Saturday pointed to Saint Stephen, stoned to death for promoting Jesus’s teachings, as a heroic example of how small, everyday acts of goodness can have a major yet unseen impact of the world.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Abortion, California, Catholic Church, Catholic Health Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Department of Health and Human Services, Family Research Council, Live Action, March for Life, National Right to Life, News, President Joe Biden, Students for Life Action, Susan B Anthony List, the pro-life movement |
Over 40 prominent pro-life leaders called on the U.S. Senate Dec. 21 to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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