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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2021 | Iraq, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal travel, Parkinson's disease, Sciatica, St. John Paul II, Vaccines |
Sciatica is not life-threatening, it doesn’t shorten the lifespan, and it doesn’t pose the risk of either physical or mental incapacity. That’s not to say it’s trivial – as Francis himself said talking about it in 2013, “I don’t wish it on anyone!” – but it’s not the sort of thing that raises questions about the pope’s ability to govern.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2021 | Faith, Gospel, lead, News, On Spirituality, Ordinary Time, repentance, Uncategorised |
A call to repentance challenges the status quo. It calls on people to pause and evaluate where things are and where they’d want them to be.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2021 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVDI-19, Jordan, lead, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vaccines, Vatican |
As vaccine distribution plans slow down throughout the North America and Europe due to a delay in production, the Vatican has called for equitable disbursement.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2021 | 2 Timothy 1:12, 2021, A Different Inauguration, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Cicero O tempora! O mores!, Columns, Father Paul D. Scalia, Frodo and Gandalf, Gospel, Isaiah 6:5, Jesus Christ, Mark 1:14-20, News, Repent! Kingdom of Heaven, Saint John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Paine These are the times that try men’s souls! |
Fr. Paul D. Scalia: “Repent” is the foundational Gospel command. It’s always timely. Sin is the construction of one’s own petty kingdom.
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Read MoreAs he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; they were fishermen. Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Then they abandoned their nets and followed him (M…
Read MoreSt. Joseph Calasanctius, founder of the Piarist order and the patron saint of Catholic schools, once wrote, “All suffering is slight to gain Heaven.” St. Agapitus, a third-century martyr who was tortured with hot coals […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2021 | Featured Highlights, News |
A sense of urgency It is useful and edifying to read a Gospel continuously, from start to finish. It allows us to notice details that we miss by hearing it presented piecemeal at Sunday Mass. With the Gospel of Mark several things immediately catch our attention, one being the word “immediately.” There is a feverish[…]
The post The Year of Mark: The Evangelist’s Literary Techniques appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2021 | fake news, News, Pope Francis, The Dispatch, World Communications Day |
Vatican City, Jan 23, 2021 / 04:15 am (CNA).- Pope Francis issued a new warning about misinformation on Saturday, weeks after he was the subject of a viral “fake news” story. Writing in his World […]
Read MoreVatican City, Jan 23, 2021 / 03:01 pm (CNA).- Earlier this month the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples sent a letter to the bishops of some 1,100 Catholic territories and announced the gradual reduction of the financial support they regula…
Read MoreVatican City, Jan 23, 2021 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis has been forced to cancel three public appearances scheduled for Sunday and Monday due to a recurrence of the nerve pain that struck him at the end of 2020.
The Holy See press office ann…
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Read MoreBook Review: Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Read MoreCatholics celebrate the recently instituted “Sunday of the Word of God”
Read MoreHopeful signs that Muslims are beginning to accept a principle that took Catholics centuries to embrace
Read MoreGospel reflection for Sunday of the Word of God (Mk 1, 14-20)
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 23, 2021 | Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, Assisi, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, News, Nuclear arms treaty, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Pax Christi International |
Giving thanks that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into force Jan. 22, the archbishop of Assisi insisted that ensuring peace for humanity would require further steps, including working for justice and removing threats to human life at all stages of its development.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 23, 2021 | Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, News, Ross Douthat, University of Notre Dame |
Over 40 top professionals from multiple fields came together for a virtual conference in mid-January to discuss how to live together in unity and promote the common good.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 23, 2021 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Fratelli Tutti, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
The value of Fratelli Tutti “is to be found in the firm decision to follow up and implement the teaching of the council: Universal fraternity and social friendship are for today’s world a ‘sign of the times,'” said Czech Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in a Jan. 21 online address to CMSM.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 23, 2021 | 2021 - January Releases, Latest News Releases, News |
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the death of Larry King: Larry King was perhaps the greatest interviewer of all time. Unlike today’s cable news hosts, Larry came to the table without cue cards. There were no canned questions prepared…
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