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“At a time of grave political uncertainty in Myanmar, our faith tells us that we cannot remain silent and be complicit to this action towards those who have fled due to a grave humanitarian crisis,” Malaysia’s bishops said in their st…
Read More“Xenophobia also causes much of the intolerance, violence, and persecution suffered by an increasing number of people on the basis of their religion or belief,” Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy…
Read More“The allegations in the lawsuit against Bishop [Nicholas] DiMarzio never happened,” his attorney said.
Read MoreCIDSE (Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité) is a network of Catholic development agencies, most of them European.
Read MoreTwitter temporarily banned Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin from posting after he tweeted the following: “There is dignity in dying. As a priest, I am privileged to witness it often. Assisted suicide, where it is practiced, is not an expression of fr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Brownsville, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Brownsville, immigrants and refugees, migrants and refugees, News, Sister Norma Pimentel, Sr. Norma Pimentel, Texas, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border |
Just as the coldest weather in more than 30 years brought new misery to asylum-seekers stranded in a refugee camp in Mexico, an end to their plight may be in sight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Abortion, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Department of Health and Human Services, News, President Joe Biden, pro-life, the pro-life movement |
About 60 pro-life leaders signed a letter objecting to confirmation of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Read MoreAmbassador Luca Attanasio and his bodyguard were killed while taking part in a humanitarian convoy.
Read More“Rather than affirm human dignity in ways that meaningfully exceed existing practical protections, the Equality Act would discriminate against people of faith,” five bishops who chair USCCB committees warned in a February 23 letter. “…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Papal travel, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope Francis in Iraq, Pope in Iraq |
Iraq’s Christian communities were dealt a severe blow when they were scattered by the IS onslaught in 2014, further shrinking the country’s already dwindling Christian population. Many hope their struggle to endure will get a boost from a historic visit by Pope Francis planned in March.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Robert J. McElroy, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, News |
For Jesus’ parents, “answering God’s call meant their whole lives were turned upside down,” not unlike the events of the past year, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Feb. 21 at the close of the all-virtual 2021 Religious Education Congress.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Austin, Bishop Joe S. Vasquez, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Natural disasters, News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, winter |
The Burton family from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were on the way home from a New Mexico skiing vacation when the worst winter storm in recent Texas history brought the state to a perpetual halt.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Churches, Guns, News, North Carolina, worship |
Concealed weapon permit holders could carry handguns on North Carolina private school campuses when separate church services are happening onsite in legislation approved on Tuesday by a state Senate committee.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Budget, deficits, employees, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Roman Curia, Vatican finances |
For 2020, the Vatican ran a deficit of $60 million (the data is reported in Euro, so that’s 49.7 million Euro). The total income for the year was $315 million and expenses came to $375 million, hence the deficit.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Interviews, Iraq, Isis, lead, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Iraq, Syriac Christians |
Father Naim Shoshandy has plenty of reasons to be angry: On March 23, 2014, the terrorist organization known as Islamic State murdered his 27-year-old brother, for no other reason other than the fact that he was a Christian. Today, he welcomes Pope Francis’s “bravery” in deciding to visit the “martyred nation” of Iraq.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Church in the US, House of Representatives, lead, LGBTQ, News, President Joe Biden, USCCB |
Ahead of a House of Representatives vote this week, the U.S. bishop’s conference denounced the Equality Act as a bill that “discriminates against people of faith,” and something that “can be construed to include an abortion mandate.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Church in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican diplomacy |
On Tuesday evening Pope Francis sent a telegram to Italy’s president conveying his sorrow for the death of country’s ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo, who died Monday in an apparent kidnapping attempt.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Michael Carlton. Lonely Shades of Light Warmed with soft rays that glitter of gold, The longer his days with eyes that grow old. He wakes to the shadows of dawn’s early light, Escaped from the co…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Jesus' Temptation in the Desert, Lent, News, winter |
The twisted journeys that words take before they reach our modern ears are often signposts, pointing to the Divine gift that is human language. Etymology shows us a dusting of grace in even the most familiar of words. Observe the path the word “Lent” took to reach us here, at the dawn of the 21st […]
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 24, 2021 | 2021, Columns, Following Jesus on the Way: Biblical Meditations on Lenten Themes, forty days of prayer and fasting, Lent in the Desert, News, Prophet Isaiah, Randall Smith, Rev. Chris Dorn, The Catholic Thing |
Randall Smith: What artifices of self will we give up to embrace the virtues of charity and the selfless gift of ourselves to others?
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