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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 15, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Many years ago, in an article for Touchstone called, “A Requiem for Friendship,” I wrote that the public acceptance of homosexuality would cast suspicion on physical expressions of friendship among males, and would make it more difficult for boys to forge strong friendships in the first place, especially if such boys were shy, or not […]
The former director of music at St. Joseph’s University said she was told by her supervisor to “exercise discretion” about her same-sex marriage, creating an “immense psychological toll,” according to a report on her laws…
Read MoreTwo sisters who worked in a medicine factory were “often sexually harassed and had received from two work colleagues . . . the request, always rejected, to convert to Islam,” according to the report. They were then kidnapped and murdered.
Read More“I have the desire and the intention to travel to Rio de la Plata — to Uruguay and to my country,” Pope Francis told Uruguay’s new ambassador to the Holy See.
Read MoreThe West African nation of 22.8 million (map) is over 96% Muslim, with 3% adhering to ethnic religions.
Read MoreAfter Gov. Kate Brown downgraded the state’s rules (limit of 25% capacity or 100 people) to guidelines, Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland announced a 50% capacity limit in parishes (so as to maintain social distancing). Masks are still requ…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court of Canada announced on January 14 that it would not hear an appeal by the Archdiocese of St. John’s in Newfoundland, to a lower court ruling. Mount Cashel Orphanage opened in 1898 and closed in 1990; it was operated by the Iris…
Read More“Standing here at the US-Mexico border, how do we begin to diagnose the soul of our country?” asked Bishop Mark Seitz. “A government and society which view fleeing children and families as threats; a government which treats children i…
Read More86 states have signed, and 51 have ratified, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. “We are very much trying to encourage people to have . . . a more holistic approach to justice and development and care for creation, developing trust…
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“Praised be Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, His most holy Mother! Come to prayer, Sisters, come to praise the Lord!” It is 4:00 a.m. and fifteen Carmelite sisters arise to this call, dating back to the days of their foundress, Saint Terese of Avila. They make their way to the stone chapel, where they […]
Statement for Observance of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Most Reverend José H. Gomez
Archbishop of Los Angeles
President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
For much of the past year, America has been reckoning with the legacy of slav…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued the following statement on the New START Treaty.
Bishop Malloy’s full statement follow…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently modified a rule that will help ensure faith-based social service providers will not be excluded from certain federally-funded programs of HHS. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New Y…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – On Tuesday night, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s request to reinstate its authority to enforce important health and safety requirements for mifepristone, a chemical abortion drug. On …
Read MoreReading I Heb 4:1-5, 11
Let us be on our guard
while the promise of entering into his rest remains,
that none of you seem to have failed.
For in fact we have received the Good News just as our ancestors did.
But the word that they hea…
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The New York Archdiocese put forward its own compensation program for victims of child abuse to avoid possible bankruptcy of local diocese should state legislation pass
The post Fears about the Child Victims Act pushed New York Archbishop to act appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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“To be a Catholic is to be rooted in tradition and anchored in Heaven.” It’s something I say a lot in my writing and interviews and so on. I think it’s rather poetic, to be honest, and it has the added benefit of being true. But what does it actually mean, in practice? Let’s start […]
The 93-year-old Pope Emeritus remains completely lucid, according to his personal secretary. “We continue to go out every afternoon, despite the cold, to the Vatican Gardens. Every day I celebrate Mass, and he concelebrates seated.”
Read MoreThe Week of Prayer for Christian University (January 18-25) typically culminates with Vespers at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Even amid the pandemic, Pope Francis is scheduled to preside at Vespers there, with reduced attendance.
Read More“The Lord casts out evil spirits, and we often, as we look at the world around us, in particular during these past several days here in our nation, we need the Lord to cast out the spirit of evil, hatred, division, bigotry, racism, inequity,&rdqu…
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