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The annual Open Doors World Watch List, which monitors the persecution of Christians, ranks North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Eritrea, Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, and India as the places where Christians face the most persecution. The repor…
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Last October, I deleted my Facebook account permanently. I watched with growing concern as friends and family spiraled out of control as their political beliefs took over everything. It is clear that politics has become a false idol for too many, including far too many Catholics. Hearts are hardening on both sides, which is never […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Prayer, Saints, sign of the Cross, Sophia Excerpts, St. Francis de Sales |
The Sign of the Cross is a Christian ceremony that represents the Passion of our Lord by tracing the shape of the Cross with a simple motion. It is a ceremony, I say, and here is what is meant by that term. A skillful manager assigns to each of his subordinates his proper task, making […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
People often remark at how dazzling-white our Dominican habits are. The question they frequently ask goes something along the lines of, “How do you not get it dirty?” I usually respond to this question, “Well, it does get dirty, but we clean them often enough.” I realized that this shows the symbolism in our habits. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | 2021, Abortion, Birth control, brown, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Cuomo, David G. Bonaugra Jr, Inslee, Jesus Christ, Lockdowns: An Abortion Argument, News, Newsom, The Catholic Thing |
David G. Bonagura, Jr.: COVID restrictions have shown the privacy/liberty “right” to abortion for what is: an arbitrary government edict.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a federal requirement that women who are seeking abortion-inducing drugs must do so in…
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Pope Francis’s latest motu proprio, Spiritus Domini, opens up the minor ministries of lector and acolyte to women. Is this…
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Mrs. Desmond interviews Bishop Thomas Paprocki, who asks, “Catholics are supposed to go to Church on Sunday, but well over…
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Read MoreIt is often claimed that the life of an unborn child or a seriously disabled person is only a relative…
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Australia’s financial crime watchdog has said that it vastly overestimated Vatican transfers, local media reported on Wednesday. The Australian Transaction…
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Read MoreDuring the January 13, 2021, General Audience Address Pope Francis continued his cycle of catechesis on prayer, focusing on the theme "Prayer of praise" (Bible reading: Psalm 145, 1-3, 21). After summarizing his catechesis in various language…
Read MoreWith a Motu proprio, Spiritus Domini released on January 10, 2021, Pope Francis established that from now on the ministries of Lector and Acolyte are to be open to women, in a stable and institutionalized form through a specific mandate.
Read MoreIn his message for the 29th World Day of the Sick on February 11, 2021, Pope Francis urges a path of healing grounded in a trusting and interpersonal relationship between the sick and those who care for them.
Read MorePope Francis Homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord on January 6, 2021. As he celebrated Mass on the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord on January 6, 2021, Pope Francis urged Catholics to devote more time to worshiping God. Preaching in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope said that worshiping the Lord was not easy and required spiritual maturity. “Worshiping God is not something we do spontaneously. True, human beings have a need to worship, but we can risk missing the goal. Indeed, if we do not worship God, we will worship idols – there is no middle way, it is either God or idols,” he said.
Read MoreAccording to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Felix who lived in the third century. He was a priest and suffered greatly in the Decian persecution. The tomb of St. Felix at Nola, a s…
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“However, as soon as the man went out, he began spreading the news everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter any town. But even though he stayed in the rural areas, people came to him from everywhere.” The leper cleansed of his leprosy, so joyful at his cure, despite Jesus’ instructions to the […]
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