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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Editor's Corner, News |
‘Tis incumbent upon us on this day, as a new incumbent takes over in the Oval Office, one whose policies are inimical to the genius of the feminine, to remind ourselves of the glory of woman, signified in saints like Agnes, a young Virgin Martyr, who perished by the sword under the reign of Diocletian[…]
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Read MoreRome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA).- A recently ordained Catholic priest died in hospital early Thursday morning after an explosion destroyed a parish building in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
Fr. Rubén Pérez Ayala was…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Assad, Boris Johnson, Caesar Act, Joe Biden, News, Syria, United Kingdom, United States, World News |
In two letters, politicians, senior clergy and heads of aid organisations from around the world urged US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to end their economic sanctions on Syria. Citing an appeal at the end of December from the UN Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercieve Measures, Prof. Alena Douhan, they called
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Read MoreWhen my father was a Chemistry major at Notre Dame in the mid-1950s, he was required (as were all Notre Dame students) to take the core religion courses. Catholic priests with advanced degrees taught him that the main thing someone had to do to be a fa…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Yesterday morning at the grand Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington D.C., Joe Biden ate and drank his own spiritual death. That he received the Holy Eucharist from the hands of a Cardinal of the Church adds scandal upon scandal. One radio wag called it a mass for Planned Parenthood. And so, it was. Joe […]
“For the nation’s bishops, the continued injustice of abortion remains the ‘preeminent priority,’” said Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, citing the bishops’ statement on faithful citizenship. “Preemi…
Read MoreCardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago strongly criticized the statement issued by Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops; other bishops praised the statement.
Read MoreBishop Daniel Thomas of Toledo issued statements on the death of the suspect, the death of the police officer, and the vandalism and arson at Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral.
Read More“I invite you to join many thousands of Catholics praying a nationwide novena from Thursday, January 21 through Friday, January 29,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City (Kansas), chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’…
Read MoreDenver Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 03:01 am (CNA).- Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, and Italy is ready to celebrate the author whose epic poem through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven has influenced the art, imagination, and faith of so many down the centur…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Unless you had the good fortune to have slept right through the 1960s, you’ll probably remember the Yippies, a movement begun back then by a couple of buffoons named Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, which sought to undermine the existing order by revolutionary means. They would later go to prison for inciting a riot at […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | architecture, Augustus Pugin, Features, Magazine, News, Top Story, UK |
After 200 years of building new English churches, is the vocation of the Catholic architect over, asks Michael Hodges
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Catholic education, Comment, Higher education, News, St Mary's University Twickenham, Top Story, United Kingdom |
Catholic universities have a gift to offer the world which arises from the way we think about knowledge. We have a duty in teaching and research to ensure that the link between faith and reason is not severed. A Catholic university should also help in the building of character. Our alumni should go on to serve society whist practising the virtues – whether they practice in business, the law, sport, health or education.
The post Adding diversity to the university appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Joe Biden issued a Memorandum preserving and fortifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program was implemented in 2012 and has enabled approximately 800,000 young people, who paid a…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden revoked Executive Order 13768 of January 25, 2017 on “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” and implemented a 100-day moratorium on certain deportations, allowing for a compreh…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, respective chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Jus…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued a Proclamation reversing the Trump Administration’s policy prohibiting immigrants and refugees from several Muslim-majority and African countries. In response, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York…
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr
Reading I Heb 7:25—8:6
Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him,
since he lives forever to make intercession for them.
It was fitting that we should ha…
Read MoreShepherds, Sheep, Hirelings and Wolves: An Anthology of Christian Currents in English Life Since AD 550 by Tim Williams, reviewed by Septimus Waugh
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Read MoreMatteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, said that 25 homeless people who receive regular assistance from the Office of Papal Charities were vaccinated in Paul VI Audience Hall on January 20.
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