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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | News, Saints and Fathers |
Here’s one more reason why Donald Trump should be re-elected President. He often does surprising, good things in support of the Church and Christian faith, like this amazing proclamation today honoring a saint and martyr – for religious freedom. Proclamation on 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket Today is the 850th anniversary of the […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Middle East - Africa, News |
CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- A Catholic archbishop called Tuesday for renewed prayers for a kidnapped bishop following “misleading” reports about the bishop’s fate.
Archbishop Anthony Obinna urged “all Christ&rsqu…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Editor's Corner, Featured Highlights, News |
Obedience is not necessarily a virtue. It did not excuse the Nazis at Nuremberg, who were just ‘following orders’. Just as Serviam has its exceptions and nuances, so too Non Serviam can be firmly stated without its usual demonic overtones. So how do we know when obedience is good, and when not so? With Saint Peter, we must in[…]
The post The Limits of Law and Obedience appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Archdiocese of Boston, Archdiocese of New York, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church bells, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News |
Churches will ring bells at noon Dec. 30, during the octave of Christmas, to remember and honor the more than 336,000 people who have died in the United States from COVID-19.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Bishop Georg Bätzing, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, German bishops, German Church, Germany, News |
In a wide-ranging interview, the head of the German bishops’ conference called for far-reaching changes to the Catholic Church and criticized the Vatican’s treatment of the church in his country.
Read MoreTim Ryland, editor of Catholic Answers Magazine helps us close 2020 with a reflection on the state of journalism. Specifically, given the parlous state of journalism, how can anyone know the truth about what the heck is going on?
Cy:
I don’t kno…
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Becket, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, religious liberty, Trump administration |
The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting “the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Becket, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, religious liberty, Trump administration |
The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting “the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Abortion, Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pope Francis |
At the crack of dawn on Wednesday, Pope Francis’s home country of Argentina legalized abortion, after the senate approved a bill presented by President Alberto Fernandez.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Abortion, Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pope Francis |
At the crack of dawn on Wednesday, Pope Francis’s home country of Argentina legalized abortion, after the senate approved a bill presented by President Alberto Fernandez.
Read MoreVatican City, Dec 30, 2020 / 03:25 am (CNA).- Catholics can change the world by being “bearers of gratitude,” Pope Francis said at the general audience Wednesday.
In his address Dec. 30, the pope said that thanksgiving was a hallmark …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
After New Year’s Day, millions of schoolchildren from kindergarten to university will troop back into their education factories. There, the work of turning their heads to mush shall resume at the hands of their… ah, educators. This might seem a bit strident on my part; however, the truth is that events across the country (since […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
For of the soul the body form doth take; for soul is form, and doth the body make… — Edmund Spenser As human beings, we are unified beings of body and soul. We are corporeal, and as such, our most fundamental, natural need is food and water. Food is therefore the beginning of human culture. […]
“Graham Greene continues to speak to an unquiet world,” Prof Greene declares, adding, more importantly, that he is “one of the very few modern writers in English who can be valued for a whole body of work”.
The post A religion that would measure up to evil appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | arts and culture, Books, epic poetry, Magazine, News, Stephen Fry |
Purists may blanch at the invented dialogue and contemporary flourishes with which Fry embellishes his narrative. But to do so is to neglect the fact that the myths have been evolving and mutating since long before they were written down.
The post Mischief and wordplay amid the Trojan War appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreReading 1 1 JN 2:12-17
I am writing to you, children,
because your sins have been forgiven for his name’s sake.
I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because y…
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, “The suspect became upset when the victim [David Hernandez-Garcia, 82] started to pray. He then struck the victim with an oxygen tank. The victim succumbed to his injuries and was pr…
Read MoreIn November, the UK Department of Education banned Ampleforth College from accepting new students after an inspection found “very serious” failures related to safeguarding children from sexual abuse.
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