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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, New York, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, second |
Through the month of December, mixed in with joyful Christmas messages, death announcements filled the Facebook page of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a coronavirus outbreak took its toll in a residence for retired and infirm nuns.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | baseball, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, faith and sports, News, Obituary, sports, Tommy Lasorda |
Tommy Lasorda, who won two World Series titles during his 21-year managerial reign with the Los Angeles Dodgers and became an ambassador for baseball in retirement from the sport, died Jan. 7 in Los Angeles at age 93.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Bishop John Sherrington, Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Diocese of Westminster, England, lead, Lockdowns, London, News |
A spokesman for the Diocese of Westminster insists Catholic churches are safe in the British capital after the Mayor of London called for the closure of places of worship in the city.
Read MoreA new, eco-friendly Mass wine is awaiting approval from the Archdiocese of Montreal to bring a locally-made wine back to the altars of Quebec churches.
If approved, wine fermented by the Vignoble Vertefeuille vineyard in La Prairie, Que., could soon b…
Read MoreCNA Staff, Jan 9, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).- In an online panel Friday, the incoming chair of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee discussed the Church’s opposition to the death penalty as a matter of fighting the “throwaway culture.&rdq…
Read MoreReading I 1 Jn 5:14-21
Beloved:
We have this confidence in him
that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask,
we know that what we have asked him for is ours….
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Apostolic Nuncio, Kuwait, News, Qatar, Vatican diplomacy |
In an interview with Vatican News, Archbishop Nugent discussed his experience in Haiti and the significance of his new assignment, especially insofar as the Pope’s commitment to interreligious dialogue is concerned.
The post Pope Francis appoints new Nuncio to Kuwait, Qatar appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Caritas Croatia, Caritas Internationalis, Croatia, Earthquake, Free Access, News, Pope Francis, solidarity |
Powerful aftershocks have continued to rock central Croatia after the earthquake on 29 December, which struck roughly 30 miles southeast of Zagreb and measured 6.4 on the Richter scale.
The post Caritas Internationalis appeals for aid to quake-stricken Croatians appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Domincans, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, Iraqi refugees, lead, Mosul, News, US Capitol |
Dominican Father Olivier Poquillon is currently working in Mosul, Iraq, after serving as the General Secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU (COMECE).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Church in the US, Death penalty, Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, lead, News, President Donald Trump, President-elect Joseph Biden, Sr. Helen Prejean |
To Sister Helen Prejean, the first stand a Catholic takes against the death penalty in the United States doesn’t need to be grand. In fact, she believes all it takes is a desire, and a pen, to start on the path towards change.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, Vaccines, Vatican, Vatican Directorate of Health and Hygiene |
Sometime over the next few days the Vatican is expected to begin distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to citizens and employees, with priority given first to medical personnel, those with specific illnesses, and the elderly, including retired employees.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charles Laughton, Columns, David Carlin, George Washington, Jackie Kennedy, King Henry VIII, Manners are small morals, News, Pablo Casals, President John Kennedy, Robert Frost, Taste Manners Morals, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Hobbes |
David Carlin suggests that if Henry VIII had better taste, better manners, and better morals, England might still be a Catholic country today.
The post Taste, Manners, Morals appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MoreIn 1818 a young French lay woman, Pauline Marie Jaricot, founded the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, officially recognized on 3 May 1822. Pauline is “the foundress of the largest aid agency for the missions in the entire history of the Ca…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 9, 2021 | Commonweal, Features, Finaly affair, History, Holocaust, Jews, Kevin Madigan, News, Pope Pius XII, The Atlantic, Vatican Archives, World War II |
Church history is a very strange phenomenon. It does not matter whether your academic position classifies you as an historian. If you are a Christian you risk having the label “apologist” put on your work, […]
Read MoreWhy the second Catholic president in U.S. history should avoid making a fellow Catholic his top envoy to the Holy See
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