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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
After 46 years of tens of thousands marching in Washington, D. C. to peacefully protest the national legalization of child murder, the March for Life has been canceled and converted into a virtual affair for 2021. Of course, there is nothing surprising in this, but is there something disappointing? For some, the March for Life […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Australia, Australian bishops, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, clerical sexual abuse, News |
A new national protocol for responding to historical child sexual abuse and any new allegations in the Catholic Church in Australia will be more compassionate and just, said Archbishop Mark Coleridge, head of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | blasphemy law, CLAAS-UK, News, Pakistan |
A Christian staff nurse and gospel singer in Pakistan has been forced to go into hiding after she was accused of committing blasphemy.
The post Christian nurse in Pakistan goes into hiding after accusation of blasphemy appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreCardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, announced on January 28 that Pope Francis plans to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the leader of Iraq’s Shiite Muslims.
Read MoreThe East African nation of 58.6 million (map) is 57% Christian (28% Protesant, 27% Catholic), 31% Muslim, and 11% ethnic religionist.
Read MoreIn a January 29 address to the tribunal judges of the Roman Rota, Pope Francis said that even when a marriage is annulled, “it cannot be extinguished” when children are involved. He asked how children would understand if their mother, who w…
Read More“Nature is a common good that cannot become the prerogative of private companies, nor can it be managed as a state property entrusted exclusively to the action of governments,” said Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Sec…
Read MoreThe anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz “obliges us to loudly express opposition to all manifestations that trample human dignity: racism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism,” said Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, president of the bishops&rs…
Read MoreArchbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City (Kansas), chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, preached the homily at the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
As I write this, the elite who’s-who of the world are meeting virtually, as part of the Davos Forum 2021 held by the World Economic Forum. For the uninitiated, the event is essentially a gathering of major world figures—heads of state, financiers, medical professionals, etc.—who meet to discuss global plans. It is not clear if […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Dominicans, Michigan, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, second |
Nine Catholic nuns in southern Michigan have died in January due to a COVID-19 outbreak at their retirement home, which had gone for months without a single case, officials said Thursday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | abuse payouts, Associated Press, California, California Catholic Conference, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, statute of limitations |
Most California Catholic bishops are asking a judge to throw out a 2019 law that allowed accusers of clergy sexual abuse to sue even if they were molested decades ago.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Archeology, Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Galilee, Israel, Mosque, News, Sea of Galilee |
Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque — believed to date to the earliest decades of Islam — during an excavation in the northern city of Tiberias.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Biden released a statement announcing his intention to rescind the current regulation governing the Title X family planning program. The current regulation follows federal law by explaining that abortion cannot be part…
Read MoreReading I Heb 10:32-39
Remember the days past when, after you had been enlightened,
you endured a great contest of suffering.
At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction;
at other times you associated yourselves with …
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | alt-right, Associated Press, Church in the US, Donald Trump, faith and politics, News |
The Christian imagery and rhetoric on view during this month’s Capitol insurrection are sparking renewed debate about the societal effects of melding Christian faith with an exclusionary breed of nationalism.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, COVID-19 pandemic, famine, News, Pope Francis, United Nations, Vatican, World Food Program, World hunger |
Pope Francis met with David M. Beasley, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Coronavirus, News, Syria, Syria Civil War |
The West has forgotten the people of Syria because of the coronavirus, Sister Annie Demerjian told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in need.
The post ACN UK: After forgotten war, coronavirus risks making Syrians a forgotten people appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreIn his statement for the 95th World Missionary Day, which will be observed on October 17, Pope Francis writes that the Covid epidemic highlights the “urgent need for the mission of compassion.” He calls for “a faith capable of inspiri…
Read MoreThe Becket Fund for Religious Liberty welcomed the decision.
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