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Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, was appointed apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in 2016 and Patriarch in 2020.
Read MoreArchbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who recently returned to Belarus (map) after being denied entry for four months, resigned from his post on January 3, the day he turned 75. Pope Francis accepted his resignation and appointed an apostolic administrator.
Read MorePope Francis made his remarks on January 3, following his Sunday Angelus address.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mary, News, Trinity |
Ad Jesum Per Mariam. To Jesus Through Mary. This phrase captures one of the central tenets of Catholicism: that the surest path to knowing and loving Jesus is through His mother Mary. As the one who cooperated in the Incarnation of the Word, helped start His Ministry, and suffered with Him in the crucifixion, Mary […]
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Let us not grow in the temptation to forget the times we are in. Scandal is not a new word for Catholics, but it will be thrown around more than ever before with the release of the McCarrick Report which documents (in nearly five hundred pages) the rise to power and history of abuse by […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
In the Gospel, Jesus begins his public life much like the way John theBaptist did. He calls on all to repent for the kingdom of God is athand. Later, Jesus will say that the kingdom of God is within us. Wemust turn our lives around, give up our sins. When we completely accept God’s reign […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Daily Extras, Daily Quote, God's Will, Jesus Christ, News, Saints, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Work |
“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will.” (Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton) The Memorial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 – 1821) is…
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Robert Royal: We need to become simpler and deeper in our commitment to Truth, and more sophisticated in figuring out how to live it out.
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On the last day of the year, in many religious houses, the community gathers for a solemn chanting of the famous sixth-century hymn Te Deum Laudamus (“We Praise Thee, God”). This hymn is recited in the Sunday and Feast Day Office of the Breviary after the Morning Readings. The hymn is in the common form […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | Commentary, News |
T.S. Eliot’s magnificent poem “Journey of the Magi” (1935) was written as an old-age reminiscence in the voice of one…
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How far and how quickly the religious liberties landscape will change in the coming four years under an expected Joe…
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Pope Francis warned yesterday about the temptation to ignore the suffering of others during the coronavirus pandemic and said that…
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About 150 protesters blocked traffic in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral early on New Year’s Day — and someone marred…
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Read MoreThe first Catholic church to be built on that spot was begun in 1830, constructed with the labor and funds of the working class children of Irish and German immigrants. Their descendants only come here for Mass. This is the normal ebb and flow of the tide of American cities. We come here as riffraff, live downtown in squalor, build a church, and eventually our descendants become people who want nothing to do with the squalid riffraff that live downtown.
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Read MoreBorn in New York, Elizabeth Seton married and became a mother of five children. After her husband’s death, she converted to Catholicism and founded the American Sisters of Charity, a community of teaching sisters which began Catholic schools throughout…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | Analysis, Features, liturgical music, News, sacred music |
The Committee on Doctrine of the United Conference of Catholic Bishops completed work on a document dealing with the doctrinal content (or lack thereof) in hymns used in the Sacred Liturgy in September 2020, releasing […]
Read MoreMuqtada al Sadr, an influential Shi’ite leader, has called for investigation into complaints by Iraqi Christians whose property has been seized illegally—including expropriations by al Sadr’s own Shi’ite militia. The Muslim lead…
Read MoreIn a video message, the head of the Byzantine-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church has said that the Covid crisis taught the world that “indifference kills, and love of neighbor sustains, gives new hope, saves lives.” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav …
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Despite the government’s best efforts and the guilds’ shameful neglect, 2020 produced some truly stellar visual storytelling. Streaming services, which were already gaining steam, became an essential window to the outside world for those imprisoned […..
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Vatican City, Jan 3, 2021 / 09:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis warned Sunday against the temptation to ignore the suffering of others during the coronavirus pandemic and said that things will get better in the […]
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