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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Commentary, News |
To adapt the “Silent Night” refrain, all was calm, all was bright over the Christmas holidays. And then came the…
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Read MoreI. There is one road, one only, to the Light: A narrow way, but Freedom walks therein; A straight, firm…
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Read MoreGianluigi Torzi, the Italian businessman who has been arrested by Vatican officials and charged with extortion, sought to persuade the Secretariat of State to cover the cost of bonds that he had illicitly sold. Ed Condon of Pillar delves into the charges.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Concern for the Church’s eucharistic coherence in situations in which Catholic public officials facilitate grave evils yet insist on receiving…
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Read MoreCoptic Ortodox Patriarch Tawadros II rejects the notion that Egypt’s Christians face persecution, despite occasional bouts of violence against Copts. To speak of persecution, he said, is to give “a distorted image of the situation in Egypt….
Read MoreCardinal Henri Schwery, the former Bishop of Sion, Switzerland, died at home on January 7 at the age of 88. Ordained a priest in the Sion diocese in 1957, he was named Bishop of Sion in 1977 and remained in that post until his resignation in 1995. He r…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | In the News, News |
The storming of the Capitol was met by widespread responses of condemnation, even from many who once supported Trump. A…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | In the News, News |
Australia’s financial watchdog (AUSTRAC) is reviewing its calculation that transfers worth US$1.8 billion had been sent to the country from…
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Read MorePope Francis has sent a message to Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, expressing his sympathy for the people of Venezuela, who are suffering through a lengthy economic and social crisis as well as the Covid epidemic. The Pope has faced critici…
Read MoreThe Magi are called “saints” for the first time in the writings of Archbishop Hildebert of Tours (1133). In the twelfth century their veneration spread over all of Europe. The authorities of the Church did not prohibit this cult, and Epiphany acquired …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
Have we ever been shunned or ostracized? Ever been excluded because ofour accent, skin color, gender, poverty, religion, politics, caste orfamily? Try to connect with that experience for a few minutes, try tounderstand what it meant to be a leper in Jesus’ day. Try to observehow Jesus treated this remarkable leper. Are we the type […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Features, interview, News, Norbertine, St. Norbert |
The Norbertine Canonesses of the Bethlehem Priory of St Joseph of Tehachapi, California have released a new book about the founder of their community: The Life of St. Norbert: Founder of the Order of Prémontré. The […]
Read MoreA Protestant pastor in Pakistan has been charged with blasphemy for a Facebook message that offended his Muslim neighbors. Raja Warris was arrested after a Muslim mob threatened to burn down the homes of Christians in the neighborhood; he faces a poten…
Read MoreLondon’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has asked for emergency powers allowing him to close down places of worship, among other restrictions, in response to soaring case rates of Covid.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 7, 2021 / 08:01 pm (CNA).- In a setback for pro-life efforts, federal judges have upheld injunctions or imposed new injunctions against multiple Arkansas prolife laws, including bans on late-term abortion and bans on abortions that targe…
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 7, 2021 / 07:19 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón of Tijuana, on the border of Mexico and the United States, reported January 6 that he “remarkably improved” from COVID-19, which he had contracted after und…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Biden, Capitol invasion, News, Trump, U.S. & World News, Vice President Mike Pence |
When Joe Biden takes the oath of office as president Jan. 20, he’s going to face more than political challenges of getting his legislative priorities implemented, constitutional law experts said.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Baptistery, Featured, Mosaicists, Mosaics, News, Sistine Chapel, St. John Lateran, U.S. & World News |
Even though the baptisms the pope celebrates most years in the Sistine Chapel are better known, the most important place to be baptized in Rome for the past nearly 1,600 years has been the baptistery of St. John Lateran.
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