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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2021 | Archbishop Peter Comensoli, Australian bishops, Boris Johnson, Church in Europe, Donald Trump, Italy, Joe Biden, News, United States |
After pro-Trump protestors contesting the results of the US presidential election stormed the nation’s Capitol yesterday, international leaders and Catholic authorities from across the world have condemned the violence, urging peace and respect for democracy.
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My wife was at the rally in Washington DC yesterday. She went in a small bus with a handful of conservative men and women, most of them well into their 60s. A friend of ours was there with her children. There were many children there. Participants were given specific instructions in advance about how to […]
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington was Archbishop of Atlanta from 2005 to 2019; the senator-elect has been pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2005.
Read More“There will be many lessons to be learned from the scenes in Washington,” said the Archbishop of Canterbury. “For the moment let us pray for the USA, the world’s greatest defender of democracy until now, as it faces this huge sh…
Read MoreThe Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters were founded in 2008; one faction is aligned with ISIS.
Read MoreThe Catholic publisher Ascension produces the podcast by Father Mike Schmitz, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth.
Read MoreThis article offers an overview of worldwide threats to religious freedom in 2020.
Read More“Doubts about free and fair elections cannot be redressed by violence against democratic institutions,” said the Archbishop of San Francisco. “To the deaths from a pandemic, and destruction wreaked on people’s livelihoods, we do…
Read MoreThe Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, thanked Muqtada al-Sadr (Wikipedia article) for his initiative.
Read More“Our hearts are heavy as we witness the shocking and unlawful protests occurring in our nation’s capital,” said the Archbishop of Baltimore. “We fervently pray for peace and for God’s protection over our country, our lawma…
Read More“Don’t shout,” the attacker reportedly told Deacon Frederick Kurr, 74, who usually wears his clerical collar. “I just felt like punching someone.”
Read MoreThe “Way of the Holy Family” will include sites where, according to tradition, the Holy Family traveled during the flight into Egypt.
Read More“Please join me in praying for our Nation on this unprecedented day of national chaos, so that we can return to the rule of law,” Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn said on January 6.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Yesterday’s images of people literally invading the Senate chambers of the U.S. Capitol are stunning. Following months of “mostly peaceful” (i.e. violent) protests in major cities last summer, these scenes conjure up comparisons to revolutionary moments in history. What they don’t conjure up, however, is the quintessential image of America. Things like this aren’t supposed […]
Reading I 1 Jn 4:19–5:4
Beloved, we love God because
he first loved us.
If anyone says, “I love God,”
but hates his brother, he is a liar;
for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
T…
“For many months we have witnessed the deliberate erosion of the norms of our system of government,” said the Archbishop of Chicago. “May God’s love suffuse our political life together, reminding all Americans that politics is t…
Read More“I join people of good will in condemning the violence today at the United States Capitol,” Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles said on January 6. “This is not who we are as Americans. I am praying for members of Congress and Ca…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church celebrates Christmas on January 7, in accord with the Julian calendar.
Read More“We should feel violated when the legacy of freedom enshrined in that building [the US Capitol] is disrespected and desecrated,” said the Archbishop of Washington. “Together, we must intentionally pause and pray for peace in this crit…
Read MoreThe nation of 6 million (map) is 39% Catholic, 36% Protestant, 13% Muslim, and 11% ethnic religionist. Pope Francis made an apostolic journey to the war-torn nation in 2015.
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