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CNA Staff, Jan 28, 2021 / 12:42 am (CNA).- The bishops of Virginia lamented the House of Delegates’ “tragic decision” to pass legislation that would permit abortion coverage for any reason in taxpayer health insurance plans on the state’s taxpayer-fund…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Fratelli Tutti, lead, News, sanctions, Syria |
In a message released on Thursday, the Melkite archbishop of war-torn Aleppo in Syria is calling on the international community to lift the sanctions imposed on the country, arguing that they do nothing but make life “a little bit more painful” every day.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Cei, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italian bishops, Italy, lead, Mass, News |
The Italian bishops this week made a small change to the rules for Mass in the COVID-era, allowing churchgoers to extend a non-physical sign of peace their neighbor in the pews, but nixing the now-common trend of the elbow bump.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Becket Fund, Church in the US, lead, LGBTQ, News, President Joe Biden, Religious Freedom |
Last week, a federal ruling in North Dakota flew under the radar that maintains Catholic medical professionals, hospitals and organizations right to refuse performing or providing insurance coverage for gender transition procedures, or insurance coverage for gender transition drugs, if it violates their religious beliefs of medical judgement.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | CNA Columns: Russell Shaw, News |
By Russell ShawLaunched in December with modest fanfare, the Church’s observance of 2021 as a year to honor the fatherhood of St. Joseph seems to have dropped largely out of sight. True, a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions) is availa…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, forgiveness, freedom, Jesus Christ, Love, News |
How do we grow in greater Christ-like charity? How do we become perfected by the Divine Love in order to love others as He loves them? Often we think that growing in charity means simply loving those who love us in return. It means loving those who agree with us or who treat us well. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Best of Week, Featured, four last things, News, Orthodoxy, Purgatory, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas Aquinas |
St. Thomas Aquinas explains that the verse from Revelation refers to the labor of working to gain spiritual merit, but does not address the labor of suffering to be cleansed from sin. Any person whose soul is in purgatory has died in charity and merits the eternal reward of heaven, but only after having been […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | 2021, Beware Your Enemies Lest You Become Like Them, Chuck Schumer, Columns, Democrats, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, News, partisan divide, Randall Smith, Republicans, The Catholic Thing |
Randall Smith: On both sides of our widening political chasm, each faction justifies treating the arguments of their opponents with contempt.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Best of Week, Coronavirus, Featured, Marcel Van, News, Podcasts, Saints, St. Thérèse of Lisieux |
It’s probably goes without saying that the past year has been difficult for most of us. We’ve had to endure a pandemic, rioting, a contentious election, and an economic crisis. Yet, we as Catholics have an incredible refuge and friend in one particular saint: St. Therese, or the Little Flower. CE contributor and prolific author […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | In the News, News |
Although the subject of abortion is widely assumed to be a divisive one politically, there seems to be growing consensus…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Commentary, News |
The current Vatican practice of attempting to appease thug regimes in the name of dialogue is doing serious damage to…
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Read MoreI was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe:…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Commentary, News |
The question for American bishops is not whether Biden et al can reconcile their actions with Catholic moral principles. We know the…
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Read MoreNational Prayer Vigil for Life on January 28
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | In the News, News |
The 2021 “World Watch List” of nations most culpable for the persecution of Christians has revealed that preexisting trends of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
Darkness is a convenient cover for those up to no good. Some immoral and misguided youth resort to secretly videotaping lewd acts from hidden corners, of course. This gift of procreation has been inappropriately cheapened for creepy entertainment value or personal impropriety. Whatever the case may be, what’s meant for a meaningful intimate private moment […]
Read MoreSan Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said that Catholics must “reclaim this sense of what it means to receive Communion.” In an EWTN interview, he said that Catholics “no longer understanding the idea of worthiness to…
Read MoreArchbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart of Aleppo has urged international leaders to end sanctions on Syria, saying that they have caused misery among the country’s poor. The sanctions, he charged, were “knowingly established to prevent reconstruc…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), famously known to Catholics as the Angelic Doctor, was born in Italy to prosperous parents of royal lineage. At the age of five he impressed everyone by continually asking, “Quid est Deus?” (What is God?) Recognizing the precocious intellect of their son, his parents sent him to the best Benedictine teachers[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Denver Newsroom, Jan 27, 2021 / 03:25 pm (CNA).- Despite pandemic restrictions, thousands of pro-life advocates showed their support at the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco on Saturday. Eva Muntean, co-chair of […]
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