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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 10, 2021 | Asia - Pacific, News |
CNA Staff, Jan 10, 2021 / 03:22 am (CNA).- Inspired by Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Peace, a Vietnamese bishop is encouraging Catholics to establish an action plan to serve people in need during the Lunar New Year. Bishop Stephanus T…
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 9, 2021 / 05:51 pm (CNA).- The Wyoming legislature will again consider a bill to protect infants born alive in legal abortion attempts. Its backers say it is needed to push abortion doctors to provide health care to any baby who survives…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
It was exactly one hundred years ago, January 10, 1921, that G.K. Chesterton first set foot on the American continent. His much anticipated arrival from England was a very big event. The press swarmed around […]
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Read MoreGospel reflection for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (Mk 1, 7-11)
Read MoreJesuit theologian explains the tension between the universalism of God’s grace and the need to bring all people to Jesus Christ
Read MoreAcknowledging and absorbing the evil is really the only way to kill it at source, even if the price of doing it is costly, as Jesus found when adopting this approach to contending with evil
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Rome, Italy, Jan 9, 2021 / 11:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis’ personal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, has died from health complications related to the coronavirus, according to the Vatican.
The 78-year-old physician, who was being treated for an “oncological pathology,” died at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, according to Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
Pope Francis named Soccorsi his personal physician in August 2015, after not renewing the term of papal doctor Patrizio Polisca, who was also head of the Vatican’s healthcare services.
Since the pontificate of St. Pope John Paul II, the two positions had been tied together, but Pope Francis diverged from this custom by choosing Soccorsi, a doctor from outside the Vatican.
As Francis’ personal physician, Soccorsi traveled with the pope on his international trips. During his visit to Fatima, Portugal in May 2017, Pope Francis laid two bunches of white roses before the statue of the Virgin Mary for Soccorsi’s daughter, who was critically ill, and died the following month.
Soccorsi trained in medicine and surgery at Rome’s La Sapienza University. His career included both medical practice and teaching, especially in the areas of hepatology, the digestive system, and immunology.
The doctor also did consulting for the health and hygiene office of the Vatican City State and was part of the council of medical experts at the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | coronavirus emergency, COVID vaccine, News, Pope Francis, Top Story, Vatican |
Speaking to Mediaset Tg5 journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, in an interview that will air in its entirety on Sunday evening at 20:40 CET on the Italian network, Pope Francis said: “I believe that, ethically, everyone must take the vaccine.”
The post Pope Francis says he will take coronavirus vaccine, says vaccination “ethical option” for all appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | 2021 US Capitol riots, News, Pope Francis, United States, US elections 2020, Vatican |
“Even in the most mature realities,” Pope Francis went on to say, “there’s something that isn’t right — something that causes people to take to the streets against the community, against democracy, against the common good.”
The post Pope Francis to Italy’s Tg5: “Shocked” by US Capitol riots appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreVatican City, Jan 9, 2021 / 09:51 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has said he was surprised by the news of the incursion of pro-Donald Trump protestors into the U.S. Capitol Building this week, and has encouraged people to learn from the event in order to heal…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Donald Trump, lead, News, Pope Francis, United States, US Capitol, Vatican |
In an interview with an Italian TV station, Pope Francis said he was “shocked” by the infiltration of the US Capitol by pro-Trump protesters earlier this week.
Read MoreIn the Traditional calendar we are now in Epiphanytide. We continue to reflect on this Mystery of light, the manifestation of Christ to the nations. The importance of this Feast theologically and liturgically cannot be overstated. St Peter Chrysologus observed: In the mystery of our Lord’s Incarnation there were clear indications of his eternal Godhead.[…]
The post Following the Magi appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | News, Nota in Brevis |
A question for all of us, those who may see the vaccine as the prophylactic panacea to bring us back to peace and normality, all the way across that spectrum and widening divide separating many of us, to those adamant that they will never take the hastily approved conspiratorial concoction, come hell or high water.[…]
The post Vaccines, Formal and Material Cooperation appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | In the News, News |
Bill In The News (Breitbart): Catholic League President Bill Donohue, however, saw it differently and asked Friday who is actually “guilty of inciting riots?” In the wake of the storming of the Capitol, many are blaming President Trump for the violence…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic response to Trump, Church in the US, News, President Donald Trump, US Capitol |
There is no example in American history of a U.S. president inciting violence against American institutions or fellow citizens in the manner that President Donald Trump seemingly did on Jan. 6 when an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, according to a historian at The Catholic University of America.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, Georgetown University, News, President Joe Biden |
Jesuit Father Leo O’Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden Jan. 20.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Asylum, Asylum seekers, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, Trump administration, USCCB |
A federal circuit court of appeals said a Trump administration executive order that would allow state and local government officials to reject refugees in their jurisdiction violated long-standing resettlement practices.
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