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Vatican City, Jan 12, 2021 / 03:30 am (CNA).- Pope emeritus Benedict XVI will receive the coronavirus vaccine as soon as it is available, his personal secretary said Tuesday.
Archbishop Georg Gänswein told CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
For a moment as brief as it was recent, the prospects of Catholics in the American public square looked better than they ever had. Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic mother, was nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Attorney General William Barr was speaking frequently about the place of people of faith—and […]
Today we celebrate Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), founder of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, and founder also of the first official school in Canada. A missionary from France in the mid-seventeenth century, she faced innumerable difficulties in her first years in the nascent Quebec City – then just a scrabbling outpost – before going to Ville-Marie[…]
The post Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys, What Canada Was, and May Be Again? appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | CBCEW, National Tribunal Service, News, safeguarding, United Kingdom, Vatican |
The National Tribunal Service is to be established following a 2019-2020 review chaired by Ian Elliott, which the bishops commissioned into safeguarding practices and processes within the Catholic Church.
The post Bishops of England and Wales announce Edward Morgan to establish new National Tribunal Service for clerical discipline appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreA Catholic layman sued the governor of Massachusetts, stating “that Governor Baker’s orders are the cause of his parish’s protocols which are infringing on the exercise of his religion . . . There is no evidence, however, that the Arc…
Read More“We have been a bit critical because up to now, we are only allowed to have seven people in church for religious services and Mass, even if it’s a big church,” said Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm. “That is one of our ma…
Read More“We have entered new territory,” writes Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane. “That is certainly true of the United States after the attack on Congress, but it is also true in other ways elsewhere . . . New circumstances will demand …
Read MoreLocated in central Chile, the Araucanía Region (map) is the site of the Mapuche conflict.
Read MoreThe East African nation of 43.3 million (map) is 44% Protestant, 41% Catholic, and 12% Muslim.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Faithful Catholics in America have long lamented the dreadful Mass attendance numbers of the past half century. In 1970, 55% of American Catholics attended Mass; by 2019, that number had dropped to little over 20%. It’s clear that most self-identifying Catholics don’t think it’s obligatory, or even beneficial, to participate in the “source and summit” […]
WASHINGTON — Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued a statement in response to the announcement by the U.S. Department of State to designate …
Read MoreReading I Heb 2:5-12
It was not to angels that God subjected the world to come,
of which we are speaking.
Instead, someone has testified somewhere:
What is man that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man that you care …
“Following a year where the federal government, for the first time, executed more people than all 50 states combined, there are three more federal executions scheduled this week,” said the bishops who chair the US bishops’ Committee o…
Read MoreThe priorities, discussed in a letter, include “COVID-19 Support and Recovery,” “Expanding Affordable and Accessible Health Care Coverage,” “Confronting Racism through Health Equity,” “Strengthening the Health…
Read MoreThe Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, operated by the Legionaries of Christ, announced that it will bestow an award on Father Frank Pavone. In 2016, Father Pavone came under fire for a political video showing an unborn child on an altar.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 12, 2021 / 01:27 am (CNA).- As the United States approaches 48 years of legalized abortion nationwide, the Catholic bishops of New Jersey are asking Catholics to join in a day of fasting and prayer to support a culture of life.“As we mar…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Catholic Church, Democratic Republic of Congo, inculturation, Interviews, lead, Liturgy, News |
Last year, Pope Francis called the Zairean Rite “the only inculturated rite of the Latin Church approved after the Second Vatican Council.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Brazil, Catholic Church, lead, News, sacred music, Sistine Chapel, Sistine Chapel Choir, Vatican |
After being named the first non-Italian director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, Brazilian-born Monsignor Marcos Pavan said he was “surprised.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Cardinal Baltazar Porras, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pope Francis, Venezuela |
At the closing of the plenary assembly of the Venezuelan bishops, the prelates released a pastoral exhortation calling for a change in the political leadership and denouncing the “violent repression” by the government of those demanding the respect of human rights.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press—as well as co-founder and publisher of Catholic World Report—celebrated his 80th birthday on January 10th. The following biographical sketch and video tribute were created by […]
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