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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | In the News, News |
The new U.S. administration is aligned with Pope Francis’ Vatican priorities in areas like immigration and environmental policy, but at…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Commentary, News |
For Dostoevsky. . . freedom, responsibility, and the potential for surprise define the human essence. That essence makes possible everything…
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The U.S. bishops’ conference held back a statement on incoming President Joe Biden Wednesday morning, after officials from the Vatican…
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Read MoreIn his catechesis at the January 20, 2021, General Audience, Pope Francis reminds Christians that unity is achieved only with the grace of God, and not through our own force of will. The Pope reminded everyone that Jesus did not command His disciples t…
Read MoreArchbishop Salvatore Cordileone has rebuked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for her comments accusing pro-lifers of "being willing to sell the whole democracy down the river for that one issue." The archbishop said that Pelosi "speaks …
Read MoreSt. Agnes (c. 304) like St. Cecilia, is to be numbered among the most famous martyrs of Rome. When the Diocletian persecution was at its height, and when priests as well as laymen were apostatizing from the faith, Agnes, a girl of twelve, freely chose …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
The Gospel reading tells us about the public ministry of the Lord: preaching the Good News through his teaching, healing and expelling of evil spirits. He taught in synagogues, by the lakeside and on the mountainsides. People from all over came in large crowds to hear him and especially to have their sick cured and […]
Read MoreAt a special Mass celebrated before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, Father Kevin O’Brien, the Jesuit president of Santa Clara University, said in his homily that Biden’s “public service is animated by the same conviction to h…
Read MoreThe Congregation for the Causes of Saints has affirmed the “heroic virtue” of Jerome Lejeune, the French geneticist who found the cause of Down syndrome and became an advocate for the right to life of Down-syndrome babies. He now becomes el…
Read MoreRussian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that American foreign policy has undermined the unity of the Orthodox world, by pressing Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to recognize an autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church, despite objections…
Read MorePope Francis has sent a message of sympathy to Iraq after a suicide bombing in Baghdad. The bombing, which killed more than 30 people, comes as the Vatican is weighing the risks of a papal visit to Iraq, scheduled for March.
Read MoreWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 20, 2021 / 06:45 pm (CNA).- Washington, D.C.—President Joe Biden’s press secretary would not say on Wednesday evening what the administration will do with current safeguards against taxpayer funding of abortio…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Archmere Academy, High school alma mater, Joe Biden, News, U.S. & World News, Wilmington Diocese |
It’s not every kid who gets to say, “I’m a student at the president’s high school alma mater.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | 46th president of the U.S., Biden, Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal Tobin, News, Pope Francis, U.S. & World News |
Joe Biden became the second Catholic to be inaugurated as president of the United States Jan. 20, giving some U.S. Catholics and their religious leaders a reason to rejoice and others to fear more access to abortion under his leadership.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | News, Nota in Brevis |
For Biden’s inauguration, 25,000 troops were stationed in Washington, with much of the area around the Capitol and White House closed off. So much for the days of the ‘citizen president’, upon whom other citizens might drop in for a chat. Now not only is the commander-in-chief ensconced behind layers of military-style barricades, but so[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Biden, Bishops welcome Biden, Inauguration Day, News, U.S. & World News |
Bishops throughout the country welcomed the inauguration of Joe Biden as the nation’s 46th president, saying it was a celebration of democracy and liberty, while praying for unity and reconciliation in the face of deep political divides.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Adigrat, Ethiopia, Jan 20, 2021 / 05:34 pm (CNA).- At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup.
On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme wit…
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