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Sonia Tabizada, 36, threatened to bomb Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, a girls’ school in Washington, DC, after the school announced it would publish announcements of the same-sex civil marriages of its alumnae.
Read MoreCommenting on a Honduran migrant caravan, Bishop Jaime Calderón of Tapachula, on Mexico’s southern border, pledged that the Church would “live in an attitude of the Good Samaritan, reaching out to those in need.”
Read MoreAccording to the report, police halted Masses on Christmas Day and on January 3 at Landakotskirkja (the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King in Reykjavík).
Read MoreIn his Spanish-language year-end message, Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, the Peruvian Franciscan prelate who is president of CELAM (the Episcopal Conference of Latin America), spoke of “great gestures of solidarity, generosity, …
Read MoreA suspect has been arrested following the shooting at Starrville Methodist Church in Winona, a town of 600 in Smith County, Texas (map).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The recently-opened 117th Congress experienced what could be considered the most laughable prayer ever uttered if it was not in the context of such a serious platform. Representative Emanuel Cleaver from Missouri was sworn in on Sunday, and led a prayer in front of Congress to conclude the process. Ordinarily, this would be an appropriate […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Bismarck, Diocese of Fargo, News, North Dakota |
North Dakota’s attorney general said Monday his office’s 18-month investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse by members of the state’s two Catholic dioceses will not result in any charges because too much time has passed to prosecute the two lone living clergy members.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father Pat Conroy, Jesuits, Nancy Pelosi, News, U.S. Congress, US House of Representatives |
With the year-end announcement that Jesuit Father Pat Conroy would be retiring as chaplain of the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that for the first time, a woman will take over the post.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Black Catholics, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, EWTN, George Floyd, Gloria Purvis, News |
Gloria Purvis, who was told after the Dec. 30 broadcast of the EWTN radio show “Morning Glory” that the show was canceled effective immediately, said she has no regrets using the show to discuss racial matters following the police killing of George Floyd last May.
Read MoreReadings for the [In the Dioceses of the United States]
Reading I 1 Jn 4:7-10
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Whoever is without love does not know God, for…
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News, Orthodox Church |
Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church is rebelling against a government order to briefly close places of worship under a weeklong drive to tighten virus restrictions before the planned reopening of schools.
Read MoreThe Catholic bishops of Scotland have announced that they are “perplexed” by the government plan to close churches, especially since emergency regulations allow other institutions—“such as construction, manufacturing, and elite …
Read MoreThe grant from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions will help “cover the startup expenses of the six Catholic dioceses in Puerto Rico as they seek funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (…
Read More47 sisters and 26 employees have been infected since October; nine sisters have died over the past month.
Read MoreBishop David Tencer of Reykjavik has complained that under current government restrictions, only 10 people can attend Mass—even in a large church—while greater numbers can gather in a restaurant or even a sauna. The bishop said that “…
Read MoreThe new US Congress is 55% Protestant, 29.8% Catholic, 1% Orthodox Christian, 6% Jewish, and 2% Mormon, according to the Pew Research Center; 30.5% of the members of the 2019-20 Congress were Catholic. (The Center estimates that 20% of US adults are Ca…
Read MoreThe Catholic bishops of Australia have indicated that they cannot account for the $1.8 billion in Vatican funds that were transferred to their country in recent years. “I can assure you that no diocese or other church entity saw any of the money,…
Read MoreBreaking with a Vatican tradition, Pope Francis will not baptize babies on January 10, as the universal Church celebrates the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Each year, since Pope John Paul II began the annual tradition, the Pontiff has baptized infa…
Read MorePope Francis paid tribute to Diego Maradona (Encyclopaedia Britannica article) in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italian transcript: part 1, part 2, part 3).
Read MoreLeaders of the Tumandok (Suludnon) people were slain by government forces in Capiz (map).
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