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WASHINGTON —With three more federal executions scheduled in January, two bishop chairmen call on the current Administration to stop, and for the new Congress and incoming Administration to abolish the death penalty in federal law. Archbishop Paul S. Co…
Read MoreReading I Heb 1:1-6
Brothers and sisters:
In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways
to our ancestors through the prophets;
in these last days, he spoke to us through the Son,
whom he made heir of all things
and throu…
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | classical languages, Latin, Life & Soul, News, Obituaries, Reginald Foster OCD, Top Story |
“You”, he shouted, “the one who dresses up like a priest every day like an idiot in this summer heat, I forgot your name, what’s your name? “ “Ricardus”, I answered in dread. “OK, hot shot, look at that verb in the fourth line of the page we are reading: tell me everything you know about it.”
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Abortion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Iraq, lead, News, papal interview, Pope Francis, Vatican |
In his newest interview Pope Francis stressed the need for what he called the world’s “executive classes” to overcome egoism and pursue the common good in the fight against the coronavirus, and condemned the ‘culture of waste,’ saying abortion is not a religious, but human issue.
Read More“All of us can be the Good Samaritan of the parable and help a people exhausted by war and Covid,” said Cardinal Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio to war-torn Syria. “Syria has run into too many thieves in recent years, who have beaten …
Read More“Dear brothers and sisters, I offer an affectionate greeting to the people of the United States of America, shaken by the recent siege at the Congress,” Pope Francis said following his January 10 Angelus address. “I pray for those wh…
Read More“May Our Lady, to whom we now pray, help us to cherish our baptismal identity, that is, the identity of being ‘mercifulized,’ which lies at the base of faith and life,” Pope Francis said at the conclusion of his Angelus address …
Read MoreThe appeal by Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies, follows the Pope’s own appeal for to aid victims of a December 29 earthquake.
Read More“Sadly, our nation is divided now more than at any time since the Civil War,” said Archbishop William Lori. “Political divisions are nothing new. Bitter partisan debate is nothing new. Political passion is nothing new. But a direct ph…
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice for Immigrants initiative tweeted, “Help us to protect the rights and safety of workers who process and catch the fish that nourishes us. Our year-round Labeling for Lent Petition is open and …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, Catholic response to Trump, Catholics and politics, faith and politics, Father John Jenkins, Interviews, lead, News, President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, University of Notre Dame |
Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, condemned last week’s violence at the nation’s capitol.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, Church in the Middle East, lead, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi |
As Lebanon’s top political leaders struggle to form a government coalition, Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Raï continues to call on President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to hold a “personal reconciliation meeting.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Bishop Michael Olson, Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Church in the US, lead, News, President Trump, US Capitol |
In his first comments since President Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building in protest of the 2020 election this past Wednesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, condemned the president for instigating the behavior.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | 2021 US Capitol riots, coronavirus emergency, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccines, Fabio Marchese Ragona, interview, News, Pope Francis, Tg5, throwaway culture, Top Story, US elections 2020, Vatican, World News |
Pope Francis also discussed the increasingly diffuse social tendency to judge persons’ worth on the basis of “productivity” and to discard anyone “unproductive” – especially the sick, the elderly, and the unborn – a tendency he identifies as the chief characteristic of the “throwaway” culture.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
VILNIUS—The Church has opened the beatification cause of Sr. Wanda Boniszewska, a Polish nun who was a reputed stigmatist and was tortured by Stalin’s secret police. Being a stigmatist means someone either literally or mystically […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Best of Week, Dominican Order, Featured, Imitation of Christ, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas Aquinas |
Do not fail to imitate the lives of saintly and noble men. So Many Saints So Worthy of Our Imitation What a great boon we all have in our heavenly extended family, the glorious communion of saints God has given us, through their willingness to devote themselves to Him. With their Christ-centered heroic virtue, the saints […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
At the beginning of every new year there is a sense of hope. We take stock of where we are as individuals in our life, where we want to be in a year’s time, and how to go about accomplishing these new resolutions. This may apply to many different aspects of life, such as health, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Isaiah, News, The Word, Trinity |
Isaiah 55:11-12 speaks beautifully of how Jesus is sent on His mission by the Father: So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, but shall do what pleases me, achieving the end for which I sent it. Yes, in joy you shall go forth, in […]
Robert Royal: Moral witness can succeed if, despite every threat, we refuse to accept the violence and falsehood running wild among us.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | In the News, News |
The end of 2020 didn’t erase the pandemic, restore the global economy, or settle any nation’s political turmoil. Fortunately, we…
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