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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Vietnam |
High-ranking Vietnamese government officials have praised the country’s Catholics for their contributions in addressing the coronavirus pandemic and returned confiscated church buildings as Christmas gifts during visits with church leaders.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Benedict XVI, Byzantine kontakions, Epiphany, Gentiles, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Magi, News, St. Paul, The Dispatch, Theophany, Virgin Mary |
A Scriptural Reflection on the Readings for Sunday, December 7, 2017, the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord […]
Read MoreToday’s fourth-century saints, Saints Basil of Caesarea (+379) and Gregory of Nazianzen (+389), comprise, together with Basil’s brother Gregory of Nyssa (+395), the trio known as the Cappadocian Fathers, from the region now in modern Turkey from which they hailed. Along with Basic and Gregory’s sister Macrina – who had turned the family estate into[…]
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Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church
Reading I 1 Jn 2:22-28
Beloved:
Who is the liar?
Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ.
Whoever denies the Father and the …
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | News, Opinion, Pope Francis, reform of the curia, Secretariat of State, Vatican reform |
It seems it would take Solomon to figure out how to cut State down to size, but perhaps the wisest of ancient Israel’s kings has already provided a solution: Cut the baby in half.
The post Vatican Reform: Big wings have been clipped, but will they grow back? appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, News |
Identity pervades Catholic thought. Things are what they are, and that doesn’t change when our way of thinking changes. A human being is either male or female, and whichever it is stays that way. Similarly, […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Abortion, Democratic Party, Democrats For Life, Interviews, lead, News, pro-life, Pro-life Democrats, the pro-life movement |
Terrisa Bukovinac is the new president of Democrats for Life, which seeks to support Democratic Party candidates that are pro-life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Africa, Catholic Church, Catholic Relief Services, Climate change, Interviews, lead, News, Paris agreement, Paris Agreements, United Nations |
Joe Biden’s promise to return the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement will hopefully lead “a new level of diplomatic engagement and additional climate finance resources.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
CNA Staff, Jan 1, 2021 / 10:42 pm (CNA).- A Catholic bishop in Nigeria, who was kidnapped on Sunday, has been released unharmed, according to the Archdiocese of Owerri.
The diocese, which is in southeastern Nigeria, announced in a social media post la…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Warren, fair-weather period, Halcyon Days, Jesus Christ, misunderstanding of sex.joy of sex, News, The Catholic Thing |
Churches are closed; the Mass made unavailable (as in the worst despotisms). Yet Christ’s birth was ineradicable fact, and continues to be so.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 2, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
Born in Caesarea, Cappadocia (Turkey) in 329, St. Basil followed the monastic way of life. He vigorously fought the Asian heresy. A powerful preacher, he declared: “We possess nothing and we can be robbed of nothing. Exile will be impossible, since everywhere on God’s earth, I am at home. Torments cannot afflict me, for I […]
Read MoreIn his general audience address of December 30, 2020, Pope Francis said that thanksgiving was a hallmark of an authentic Christian life. The pope gave his final general audience address of 2020 in the library of the apostolic palace, where the weekly event has been held since October because of rising coronavirus cases in Italy. Pope Francis continued his cycle of catechesis on prayer, which he began in May and resumed in October following nine addresses on healing the world amid the pandemic. He dedicated Wednesday’s audience to the prayer of thanksgiving, which the Catechism of the Catholic Church recognizes as one of the principal forms of prayer, alongside blessing and adoration, petition, intercession, and praise.
Read MoreOn December 24, 2020, at the Altar of the Cathedra of the Vatican Basilica, the Holy Father Francis presided at Holy Mass on the Night of the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord 2020.
Read MorePope Francis delivered the traditional Urbi et Orbi (“To the City [of Rome] and the World”) on Christmas Day. This year, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, he spoke in the Hall of Benediction of St. Peter’s Basilica, the upper area just behind the central loggia where he would usually have delivered his message, with a limited gathering of the faithful.
Read More�Vaccine for all. 20 points for a fairer and healthier world’ This is the title, or rather vehement exhortation, of a joint document published December 29, 2020, by both the Vatican’s COVID-19 Commission and the Pontifical Academy for Life. The text, published by the Holy See Press Office and accompanied by a press release, “reiterates the critical role of vaccines to defeat the pandemic, not just for individual personal health but to protect the health of all.”
Read MoreThis homily was prepared by Pope Francis for the Feast Mary Most Holy, the Mother of God, it was read by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin who presided at the Mass.
Read MoreToday the Church celebrates the memorial of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors. This is the ninth day of the Christmas season.
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