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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Christmas, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News |
Families that usually reunite on Christmas over a hearty, lingering meal celebrated apart Friday, services shifted online, and gift exchanges were low-key in one of the most unusual and subdued holiday seasons in decades.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Associated Press, choir, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, New Orleans, News, worship |
This year, Christmas arrives in the midst of a pandemic that essentially shut down church choirs in mid-March.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Abortion, Abortion law, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Massachusetts, News |
Massachusetts’ Republican governor vetoed legislation on Thursday that would expand access to abortion in the state.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Associated Press, Bethlehem, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, Church of the Nativity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Holy Land, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, News, Palestine, Palestinian Christians, West Bank |
Bethlehem on Thursday ushered in Christmas Eve with a stream of joyous marching bands and the triumphant arrival of the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, but few people were there to greet them as the coronavirus pandemic and a strict lockdown dampened celebrations in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
Read MoreReading 1 ACTS 6:8-10; 7:54-59
Stephen, filled with grace and power,
was working great wonders and signs among the people.
Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen,
Cyrenians, and Alexandrians,
and people from Cilicia …
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, Middle East, News, Patriarch Luis Sako, Religious extremism |
Iraqi President Barham Salih attended Christmas Eve Mass Thursday, telling faithful that not only would he make every effort to defend Christians and help them return to their land, but he also pledged to clamp down on extremist violence and root out government corruption.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Christmas, lead, Lebanon, News, Pope Francis, South Sudan, Vatican |
ROSARIO, Argentina – Popes often use the holidays to dispatch messages to various countries and to address specific crises, sometimes through their Urbi et Orbi blessings and sometimes through special appeals. While no one ever openly rejects these solicitations, some leaders around the world clearly are more inclined to be
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
I believe in Yesterday’s Christmas Maybe I’m just nostalgic. Maybe I’m just getting older. I don’t think so (nostalgic, I mean). But I believe in yesterday’s Christmas. In a spiritual sense Christmas over the last […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | conversion, Daily Reflection, Featured, God's Love, Jesus Christ, life, News, sacrifice, Saints, St. Stephen Protomartyr, surrender, Virtue |
“But he [Stephen], filled with the holy Spirit, looked up intently to heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and he said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’ But…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | 2020, artistic beauty, beauty of Catholic Mass, Catholic architecture, Catholic art, Catholic Church, Catholic music, Catholicism, Church of St.-Roch Paris, Columns, John Horvat II, Laura Cappelle, light of christ, News, Rorate Mass, St.-Sulpice, The Catholic Thing |
John Horvat II: What attracts people to the Church is not social-justice sermons or dreary contemporary music, but beauty and truth.
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Read MoreToday is the second day in the octave of Christmas. The Church celebrates the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Stoned outside Jerusalem, he died praying for his executioners. He was one of the seven deacons who helped the apostles; he …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Christmas, Featured, From the Pope, Iraq, News, Syria, Vaccines for all, Yemen |
On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but he urged everyone to recognize and help those who are suffering even more.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 26, 2020 | Birth of Christ, Christmas Eve, Featured, From the Pope, Kalenda, News |
The birth of Christ is a gift from God that brings people hope and courage in troubled times, Pope Francis said Christmas Eve.
Read MoreVATICAN CITY — On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but he urged everyone to recognize and help those who are suffering even more.
From inside the Hall of …
Read MorePope Francis made a special appeal to leaders to grant the poor access to vaccines against the virus which has claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide as of Dec. 25.
The post Pope Francis calls for ‘vaccines for all’ as he gives Christmas Urbi et Orbi blessing appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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