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Posted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Latest News Releases, News |
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a victory for the Catholic League: Once again state lawmakers attempted to bust the seal of the Confessional, and once again they withdrew their bill under pressure from the Catholic League. Two years …
Read MoreCNA Staff, Feb 2, 2021 / 08:00 am (CNA).- An international group of Catholic academics has launched an ambitious new project to proclaim the “truth of love” to 21st-century society.
The founders of the Veritas Amoris Project include Fr. Jo…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Magdalene laundries, News, Republic of Ireland, second |
As the Catholic Church in Ireland is mired in a historical scandal on the behavior of Catholic religious orders in the running of homes for unwed mothers, Dublin’s new archbishop has praised the role of religious sisters and brothers in Irish society.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Church in Asia, Church in India, Consecrated Life, India, News, Nuns, Religious Life, Religious Sisters, sacred art, second |
For Sister Vimala Joseph, consecrated life is about the beauty of Jesus.
Read MoreRome Newsroom, Feb 2, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).- The Focolare Movement has elected Margaret Karram as the new president of the international Catholic organization.
Karram is an Arab Catholic originally from the Holy Land with a strong commitment to inter…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop Shelton Fabre, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, President Joe Biden, prison justice, prison reform, USCCB |
The chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees welcomed recent executive actions by President Joe Biden to address racial equity in housing and the use of private prisons by the federal government.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Assisted suicide, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Portugal |
Bishops in Portugal criticized legislation that would allow euthanasia and assisted suicide and said their “sadness and indignation” were compounded “by a form of death being legalized during the great aggravation of a deadly pandemic, when we are all striving to save the greatest number of lives.”
Read MoreVatican City, Feb 2, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis on Tuesday added the memorial of Sts. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus to the General Roman Calendar, giving the siblings the combined feast day of July 29.
A decree from the Congregation for Divine W…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Italy, Lockdowns, News, Vatican museums |
Much of Italy gingerly reopened Monday from pre-Christmas coronavirus closures, with the Vatican Museums welcoming a trickle of visitors to the Sistine Chapel and locals ordering their cappuccinos at outdoor tables for the first time in weeks.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Immigration, Latin America, migrants and refugees, News, Peru |
Didier Jackson had not planned on coming to Peru and, once in the country, did not intend on staying. He and his family, however, got stuck and are now trying to figure out where to go next.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Abortion, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, Immigration, LGBTQ, News, President Joe Biden, Racial justice, Religious Freedom, USCCB |
Donald Trump’s departure from the White House and the start of Joe Biden’s presidency have stirred new hopes among many religious leaders in the United States, while causing dismay among others.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, violence against women |
Pope Francis is denouncing the verbal, physical, psychological and sexual violence that women endure and is demanding greater protections for them.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report |
Some victims of child sexual abuse might have to wait two years or more to pursue legal claims because of a major bureaucratic bungle that prompted angry denunciations across the political spectrum Monday and the resignation of Pennsylvania’s top state elections official.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
(In 1997 Pope Saint John Paul II declared this ancient feast of the Presentation – also known as Candlemas – as the World Day for Consecrated Life, with the Christ-child ‘offered’ to God the Father. Whatever our own path in life, may we too give ourselves completely to God, through Our Lady, Saint Joseph and[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Artifacts & Biblical History, News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages, Radio & TV Shows, Steve's, Saints and Fathers |
Janet and I are leading our regular St. Paul Mediterranean Cruise and “Seminar at Sea” this October. We will be taking our 8 oldest grandkids. We are visiting 10 biblical sites related to St. Paul, Mary, St. John and more. We will start out from Athens, visiting Corinth, Thessaloniki, Berea, Neapolis, Philippi, Istanbul, Pergamum, Ephesus, the […]
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