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Title IX, enacted in 1972, forbids sex discrimination in schools. “We believe the ordinary public meaning of controlling statutory and regulatory text requires a recipient providing separate athletic teams to separate participants solely based on…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski. In 2016, campus police at Georgia Gwinnett College prevented Chike Uzuegbunam from distributing religious literature. The American Civil Liberties Union, the US Conference…
Read More“Every human life is sacred,” said Bishop Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro of Pasto, the capital of Nariño Department (map). The prelate called on authorities to “do their utmost to guarantee the fundamental right to life of every …
Read More“Anti-Semitism is on the rise in many countries around the globe over the past 10 years,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who sponsored the legislation. “We’ve seen members of the Jewish community harassed, intimidated, assaulted …
Read MoreAmong the seven is HHS Secretary-designee Xavier Becerra, who sued the Little Sisters of the Poor over the HHS contraception coverage mandate.
Read MoreBorn in 1940, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has led the Maronite Church since 2011. Based in Bkerké, Lebanon, the church (CNEWA profile) is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
As we’ve all heard, Twitter and other social media platforms are intensifying their crackdown on any Wrong Opinions that might be expressed on their platforms. I decided to test Twitter’s policies by making the following tweet: Read closely: I’m simply stating my own beliefs, which, although they are considered controversial today, are all simply statements […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Associated Press, bioethics, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, End-of-life issues, Great Britain, News, Poland, United Kingdom |
A specialist clinic in Poland said Tuesday it is ready to admit and treat a Pole who is at the center of a life-support dispute in Britain.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Associated Press, Boris Johnson, Brexit, China, Church in UK and Ireland, Genocide, Great Britain, News, trade, UK government, UK Parliament, United Kingdom |
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly avoided a defeat in Parliament on Tuesday after lawmakers voted against a controversial proposal seeking to bar trade deals with any country deemed by the UK High Court to be committing genocide. The amendment to the government’s post-Brexit trade bill was largely
Read MoreStatement on the Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., as 46th President of the United States of America from Most Reverend José H. Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles, President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
My prayers are with our n…
Read MoreReading I Heb 7:1-3, 15-17
Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High,
met Abraham as he returned from his defeat of the kings
and blessed him.
And Abraham apportioned to him a tenth of everything.
His name first means rig…
“There are, in fact, great expectations for a ‘return’ to multilateralism in foreign policy and a recovery of the relationship of trust with international organizations, starting with the UN,” said Alessandro Gisotti, deputy dir…
Read MoreOn January 19, Pope Francis issued a Spanish-language video message to participants in a virtual meeting of bishops and priests.
Read More“We condemn in the strongest possible term, all the killings and especially, the killings of our brothers—the Tumandoks,” the bishops of Western Visayas (map) said in a pastoral letter.
Read More“Let us with one heart commend those who have died from this virus and all of their loved ones to the Providential care of the One who is the ultimate source of peace, unity and concord,” Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington prayed at the…
Read MoreIn 1981, El Salvador’s army killed 800 civilians in the El Mozote massacre. In 2011, the government offered an apology.
Read MoreIn a victory for faith-based adoption and foster care providers, the US Department of Health and Human Services recently rescinded an earlier rule that had required grant recipients to “treat as valid the marriages of same-sex couples.”
Read MoreIndia’s bishops have also called for the release of Father Stan Swamy; the 83-year-old Jesuit has been arrested on charges of Maoist terrorism.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Bishops, Joe Biden, laity, Little Sisters of the Poor, News, Presidency, The Dispatch |
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Cardinal Christian Tumi, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News, Paul Biya |
Cameroon’s only Catholic cardinal is in hot water for suggesting the military take over the country for a short period of time to impose “order and discipline” as the country battles a separatist insurgency.
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