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CNA Staff, Feb 1, 2021 / 07:30 am (CNA).- Portugal’s bishops have expressed “sadness and indignation” after parliament approved a bill approving euthanasia.
The bishops spoke out after MPs cast 136 votes in favor of the bill to 78 ag…
Read MoreBlack January is marked again with no justice in sight for media workers who disappeared or were killed
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | International, News |
SAN FRANCISCO — The editors at a Catholic publication said they are uncertain why an automated social media post was deemed hateful and led their Twitter account to be locked.
Read MoreBy John Bergsma Dr. John Bergsma is Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. A former Protestant pastor, Dr. Bergsma has authored several books on Scripture and the Catholic faith, including Jesus and the Old Testament Roots of the Priesthood. I grew up in a Christian tradition vigorously opposed to calling their
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Stewardship, The Facts of Life |
The Facts of Life Series: The Principle of Stewardship As Catholics, we are all called to be Jesus’ disciples. And, such disciples want and are willing to embrace this exciting existential adventure with and for God. For it is a life of demanding and determined discipline, a pursuit of virtue and service. It is a walk […]
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | Asia - Pacific, News |
CNA Staff, Feb 1, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).- Australian prosecutors announced on Monday that they were dropping charges against individual journalists accused of breaching a gag order over the trial of Cardinal George Pell.
Prosecutor Lisa De Ferrar…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | Biblical Exposition, News |
Our bishop here in the Lansing Diocese of Michigan instituted “The Year of the Bible” in which the diocese reads a chapter a day together. I was asked to give two short video meditations to accompany two chapters. Below is my two 3 minute v…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | Faith, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, News, Reading and Understanding the Bible, reading Scripture |
by Fr. Dwight Longenecker After my talk at a parish mission, one of the women came up looking a bit flustered. “Father, can I ask you a question?” “Sure.” “I was at Mass yesterday and the priest said in his homily that the story of Jonah and the whale …
Read MoreVatican City, Feb 1, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).- On a visit to Cameroon this week, the Vatican secretary of state said he is hoping that peace and reconciliation can be found in the country, which is struggling to resolve the Anglophone crisis amid vi…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | coronavirus emergency, Jubilee Year of St James, News, Pilgrimage, Santiago de Compostela, Top Story, Travel & Pilgrimage |
How did the relics of St. James, martyred by King Herod Agrippa I in Jerusalem in AD 44, end up in the remote and wild northwestern corner of Roman Hispania in the first place? Curtis Williams takes us to the crossroads of history and legend.
The post The 2021 Holy Year of Jubilee in Santiago appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | Black Catholics, Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News |
In vast regions of the Amazonian state of Pará, the presence of Black people has been historically invisible, even though it’s an area that received Black migrants from the northeast.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
I have to admit many prejudices. I don’t usually read anything recommended by Father James Martin, SJ. I usually avoid the National Catholic Reporter, as forever burned in my memory from one of their articles—by the redoubtable Rosemary Radford Ruether—is the most fatuous line I have ever read: “The recent election of Joseph Ratzinger as […]
“Mexican politicians used to avoid references to Guadalupe,” according to the report. “Politicians in recent years have tried to tap Guadalupe’s popularity … None, however, have linked their political identities to Guadalupe q…
Read MoreFollowing his January 31 Angelus address, Pope Francis echoed the Dicastery for Integral Human Development’s message. “I express my closeness to those who suffer from this disease, and I encourage the missionaries, health care workers and …
Read More“Although the Catholic Bishops have grave concerns about government promotion of contraceptives, we have long supported efforts to ensure that the provision and promotion of abortion is kept physically and financially out of the pre-pregnancy fam…
Read MorePortugal’s parliament approved the measure in a 136-78 vote. The southwestern European nation of 10.3 million (map) is 89% Christian (and 84% Catholic).
Read MoreMonsignor Janusz Urbanczyk, Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, lamented the “spread of the climate of evil and antagonism, in which anti-Semitic hatred has been manifested.” …
Read MoreThe Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU, joined by the Conference of European Churches (a fellowship of over 100 Orthodox and Protestant communities), welcomed “the coordinated approach towards climate change, digital transitio…
Read MoreThe day will take place the fourth Sunday in July, close to July 26, the memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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