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The remarks by Yaqut Cholil Qoumas (Wikipedia article) are significant because Indonesia has more Muslims than any other country. (The nation is 80% Muslim and 12% Christian.)
Read More“By criminalizing migration, militarizing the border region, and using aid to bully our neighbors, the current US administration has contributed to suffering and rising levels of corruption, violence, economic insecurity and hunger in Central Ame…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | Featured Highlights, News, Saints |
On this last day of the calendar year, we celebrate in muted tones the mysterious and shadowy Pope Saint Sylvester I, who reigned from 314, the year after Constantine made Christianity legal after his momentous victory at the Milvian Bridge, until his death on this day in 335. But he must have been a vigorous[…]
The post Saint Sylvester, and So Long, 2021 appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreBruni’s statement explained that the Dean of the College of Cardinals, His Eminence Giovanni Battista Re, will preside at First Vespers and Te Deum, while the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, will say Mass of New Year’s Day, while Pope Francis still plans to lead the Jan 1 recitation of the Angelus from the Library of the Apostolic Palace.
The post Pope Francis – citing back pain – to skip Te Deum, Mass of New Year’s Day appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreOn May 6, Pope Francis began a series Wednesday general audiences on prayer; during August and September, he temporarily interrupted the series to speak on the theme of healing the world. He delivered his December 30 audience (video) in the library of…
Read MoreThe December 29 earthquake destroyed much of the city of Petrinja. “I express my closeness to the wounded and to those who have been affected by the quake, and I pray in particular for those who have lost their lives and for their families,&rdqu…
Read MoreThe missionaries include eight priests, one male religious, three women religious, two seminarians, and six lay people. “In the last 20 years, from 2000 to 2020, 535 pastoral workers have been killed in the world, including five bishops,” a…
Read MoreMatteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, announced that Pope Francis is suffering from painful sciatica. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (the Dean of the College of Cardinals) will preside at the Te Deum, and Cardinal Pietro Parolin (the Vati…
Read MorePope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, 70, who said “the Holy Father and I both think it is time. No real story to tell.” Archbishop Gullickson recently discussed his “firm conviction that the onl…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
We’ve been hearing it for weeks now: 2020 was a terrible year and we all can’t wait to shake its dust from our feet and move on to a better, brighter 2021. Between tense racial eruptions, the Covid stranglehold of fear and “socialist” distancing, and the flagrant fraudulence of our election system, 2020 was a […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Despite the persistent opposition and public protest of the architectural elites against a proposed executive order titled Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again, first obtained and reported by the Architectural Record eleven months ago, President Trump, on December 21, signed the executive order titled Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture, which declares that “traditional and classical architecture” […]
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Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming,so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | carabinieri, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Elderly, Italy, lead, News, Pope Francis |
Even though the haven’t worked for the pope in 150 years, police over the holidays acted as his hands and feet, bringing comfort and cheer to elderly who were alone for Christmas.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | 2020, Iraq, lead, News, Pope Francis, Roman Curia, Vatican, year wrap |
For Pope Francis, 2020 began normally. Then the pandemic hit.
Read MoreConstance Watson spoke with actor Julian Sands, who can currently be seen in the films The Painted Bird and Yeh Ballet. Mr Sands has just completed work on Terence Davies’ film, Benediction: The Story of Siegfried Sassoon.
The post The Last Word for December 2020: Julian Sands appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | Archdiocese of Boston, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, COVID-19 pandemic, Interviews, lead, News |
Thomas W. Carroll is the Secretary of Education and Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston. He says the “safest place for a child in America right now is inside a school that’s following the health protocols.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | Christmas, Church in the US, diocese of Nashville, lead, News, Terrorism |
After midnight mass on Christmas morning Father Jayd Neely chose to sleep on his office couch at St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows in downtown Nashville. He lives at the rectory of a nearby church, but figured it would be easier with another mass later that day.
He restarted his day at 6 a.m. with morning prayer. Then, almost exactly a half an hour later, the church was rattled with the rest of the downtown by an explosion about three blocks away.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | CNA Columns: Russell Shaw, News |
By Russell ShawThe prolife movement has lots of heroes and heroines, sung and unsung alike, but there’s always room for one more. As an addition to the roster of unsung heroes I therefore nominate Dick Delaney.
Never heard of him? That’s n…
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