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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jenna Funkhouser. Epiphany Help me choose adoration over understanding when confronted with You. Simply for the act of bowing and offering sages and elders once wandered two years after a star. T…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
During my pregnancy with our daughter, Sarah, I had a vivid dream. In it, I entered what appeared to be a basilica. Gargantuan in both size and wondrous beauty, I noticed it was empty as I crossed the threshold from the outside into the sanctuary. It occurred to me that I was in another realm, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Silence is worth learning, as it is the doorway to growing in union with God. Since God is the origin and source of all that exists, a relationship with him is fundamental to realizing your potential as an individual. Developing this relationship is the meaning of life. How does it happen? A story of two […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | 1 Cor. 1:15, 2 Cor. 11:30, 2 Cor. 12:3, 2021, Anthony Esolen, C. S. Lewis, capacity for self-deception, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Gen. 1:21, God the great I AM, Jesus Christ, Jg. 21:25, Lk. 17:10, Mt. 6:3, News, Not Selves but Faces, Satan, St. Paul, The Catholic Thing |
Anthony Esolen: In Christ we become who we are meant by God to be, as Paul says: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Best of Week, conversion, envy, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Seven deadly sins |
The Capital Sin of envy that we all carry within is us due to the effects of Original Sin. It can literally destroy us as well as countless others if it is not recognized, resisted, rejected and conquered through the grace of God and our own determination. What are some positive steps we can take […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | In the News, News |
If the U.S. bishops urge Pope Francis to challenge President Biden’s policies and rhetoric on abortion, Biden’s ambassador to the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | In the News, News |
Catholics, although about 20% of the U.S. population, remain at 30% of the new Congress. Catholics are the single largest…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Pope Francis has a fondness for improvisation, both in terms of personal style and pastoral governance. A Vatican documentary on…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | In the News, News |
A pontifical university in Poland is patenting a beer that will give drinkers a taste of the Middle Ages. Sławomir…
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Read MoreSt. André was born near Quebec, and entered the Congregation of the Holy Cross as a Brother. He performed humble tasks for over forty years and entrusted all of the poor and sick who flocked to his cell to the care of St. Joseph. During his life he was…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | News, Quote of the Day |
The story of St. André Bessette definitely proves truth is far more astounding than fiction. Here was an uneducated French-Canadian, too frail to succeed in any work he tried until, at twenty-five, he gave himself full-time to God’s service. He then spent decade after decade — living to ninety-one — like the stoutest pack-horse carrying […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
The most phenomenal detail in today’s Gospel is that Jesus is actuallyseen by his disciples walking on water in the middle of the night.What do you think this meant to the disciples? What does it mean toyou now, some 2,000 years later? What does this fact say to you aboutJesus? Off hand, it is quite […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Chicago, Ill., Jan 5, 2021 / 08:55 pm (CNA).- The outspoken activist Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger faces an allegation that he sexually abused a minor over 40 years ago, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago […]
Read MoreChicago, Ill., Jan 5, 2021 / 08:55 pm (CNA).- The outspoken activist Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger faces an allegation that he sexually abused a minor over 40 years ago, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has said, adding that the claims have not…
Read MoreI HAD almost written that history is the most important department of all education. To put this without modification would…
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Read MoreWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 5, 2021 / 06:19 pm (CNA).- An 18-month-long investigation into child sexual abuse in North Dakota’s two dioceses has concluded, the state’s attorney general announced Monday.
The investigation focused on a li…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | 2020, 2021, covid, COVID-19, New Year, News, Salud, U.S. & World News |
Whether or not they raised a glass of bubbly as the new year made its debut, many people around the world were convinced that 2021 had to be better than 2020 was.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Baptism of the Lord, News, U.S. & World News |
The choral cries of newborn babies will not fill the Sistine Chapel in 2021 because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Pope Francis to cancel his annual celebration of infant baptisms on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Boris Johnson, covid, National lockdown, News, Pandemic-related national lockdown, U.S. & World News |
An English cardinal spoke of his relief that churches in England will not close during a third national lockdown.
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