Sign nuclear weapons treaty, Australian bishops urge prime minister (Australian Catholic Bishops Conference)
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force on January 22.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force on January 22.
Read More“May the Virgin Mary help us to live each day, each moment as the time of salvation, in which the Lord passes and calls us to follow him, every second of our life,” Pope Francis said at the conclusion of his January 24 Sunday Angelus addres…
Read MorePope Francis made his comments on January 24, following his Sunday Angelus address.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 25, 2021 / 02:00 am (CNA).- The Polish Catholic Church’s annual “Day of Islam” on Tuesday is an opportunity to overcome prejudices, a bishop who oversees Catholic-Muslim dialogue in the country has said.
Bishop Henryk …
Read MoreOn January 23, the director of the Holy See Press Office announced that because of recurrent sciatica, Pope Francis would miss three important events on January 24 and 25. The Pontiff, however, did deliver his January 24 Sunday Angelus address in the l…
Read MoreIn a message issued on the vigil of the memorial of St. Francis de Sales (patron saint of journalists), Pope Francis expressed concern that “original investigative reporting in newspapers and television, radio and web newscasts is being replaced …
Read MoreCardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, said on January 24 that adolescents who have given up in-person schooling, normal social interactions, and athletics have been forgotten during the pandemic. The…
Read MoreCardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, said that priests and seminarians “need more and better education” so as to offer “morally and scientifically sound responses to questions about p…
Read MoreCardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, presided on January 25 at a funeral mass for Roberto Mantovani, a homeless man who was well known on the streets near the Vatican. The funeral came on the day after Pope Francis lamented the death of a home…
Read MoreA Spanish mayor tore down a cross from the door of a Carmelite convent and threw it in the trash. The cross in the town of Aguilar de la Frontera had been erected in 1939 to honor victims of Spain’s civil war.
Read MoreClimate change “represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, said in a message to the Climate Action Summit.
Read MoreA Filipino priest was shot and killed on January 24 in Mindanao. Father Rene Bavang Regalado was shot several times in the head after his car was stopped outside the seminary where he lived. Father Regalado, who was an advocated for farmers, had report…
Read MoreIntroduction The question whether it is morally licit to produce stem cell lines from embryonic and fetal stem cells, to use these cell lines for the research on or the production of vaccines, and to […]
Read MoreIntroduction The question whether it is morally licit to produce stem cell lines from embryonic and fetal stem cells, to use these cell lines for the research on or the production of vaccines, and to […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | Church in Europe, Discalced Carmelites, Francisco Franco, lead, News, Religious Freedom, Spain, Vandalism |
The mayor of a small town in southern Spain forcibly removed a cross from the doors of a convent. The crucifix was then found in a garbage dump.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, fake news, Indigenous peoples, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News, Vaccinations, Vaccines |
Indigenous people in Brazil are facing obstacles to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, despite being considered a priority group.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | Aparecida, CELAM, Church in the Americas, Latin America, lead, News, Pope Francis |
On Sunday, the Catholic Church in Latin America launched a consultation process that involves not only the hierarchy but also the laity, and Pope Francis reminded those taking part that “an elite illumined by one ideology or another” is not the Church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | authenticity, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Spiritual Life, The Facts of Life |
The Facts of Life Series: A Righteous Lifestyle Trying to live a righteous Catholic life can be an act of provocation and revolution in our contemporary culture. For our modern world objects to almost every facet and feature of a truly Catholic, Catholic lifestyle. And, with a mere moment’s reflection, this modern toxic reality and adversarial […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | conversion, Conversion of St. Paul, Featured, News, Saint, Saints, St. Paul |
On the path to the city called Damascus, Saint Paul’s life changed; it changed forever, and it changed dramatically. Have you ever had an event, encounter or experience that you knew would change the course of your life forever? Contemplate the answer to this question carefully. We are told that Paul is on his way […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, friendship, healing, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts |
I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. (John 15:15) Friendships can be a source, not only of spiritual growth, but also of great enjoyment and satisfaction — and thus, the ending of a friendship on bad terms can be the cause of […]
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