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Vatican City, Feb 28, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis said Sunday that it is important to remember when facing a difficult trial that the “Lord is risen and does not permit darkness to have the last word.”
“At times we go throug…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, News, Pope Francis, Pope Francis in Iraq, Pope in Iraq |
Infectious disease experts are expressing concern about Pope Francis’s upcoming trip to Iraq, given a sharp rise in coronavirus infections there, a fragile health care system and the unavoidable likelihood that Iraqis will crowd to see him.
Read MoreThe annual Ordinandi Dinner last year went off without a hitch, celebrated just before COVID put Canada and the world in lockdown. But there was no such luck for this year’s event.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, News, Pope Francis, Top Story, Vatican reform |
A Vatican City criminal court heard two days of frequently gruesome testimony last week, in the trial of two clerics: 28-year-old Fr. Gabriele Martinelli and 71-year-old Fr. Enrico Radice. Martinelli, a former student at the St. Pius X minor seminary in the Vatican, is charged with sexual abuse of a junior boy when Martinelli was
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | apostolic voyages, coronavirus emergency, Iraq, News, Papal visit to Iraq, persecution of Chirstians, Terrorism |
Significant other risks also attend the visit, long desired by Pope Francis and highly anticipated by the sorely tried people of the country. — Rome — The Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq, Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, has tested positive for coronavirus and is in isolation at a site removed from the nunciature — the Vatican embassy —
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Read MoreCNA Staff, Feb 28, 2021 / 04:01 am (CNA).- An investigation by a Vancouver, Canada Catholic newspaper has uncovered evidence that at least one of the region’s publicly funded health authorities has been offering patients euthanasia or assisted suicide …
Read MoreReading I Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
God put Abraham to the test.
He called to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am!” he replied.
Then God said:
“Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah.
There you shall…
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Edgardo Mortara, History, Iraq, lead, memory, News, News Analysis, Second Vatican Council, Shahbaz Bhatti |
In Catholicism, how the past is remembered and constructed is always key to the politics of the present and future.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Peru |
A group of at least 60 immigrants, most of them from Haiti, have been camped on a bridge that connects Brazil and Peru since Feb. 14, waiting to cross the border.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Commentary, Faith, lead, Lent, News, On Spirituality, Transfiguration |
As a help to our Lenten observance, every second Sunday of the sacred season, the Church gives us the account of the Lord’s Transfiguration.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Iraq, lead, News, papal visit, Pope Francis, Pope in Iraq |
Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, the papal representative in Iraq, who was supposed to accompany Pope Francis during his March 5-8 visit to the land of the two rivers tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, and is now isolated.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz chants a litany of misdirection that resonates powerfully in our “post-truth” age. Miller, who helped bomb Monte Casino Abbey before becoming a Catholic convert, starts the novel in […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Baptism, Catholic Church, covenant, Faith, fasting, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Lent, Love, News, practical faith, Prayer, Salvation, Sanctifying Grace, Sunday Scripture Reflections, surrender, Transfiguation, trust |
The love with which God embraces each of us is one of the great truths revealed in to us throughout salvation history, but especially through and in Jesus Christ. To come to better understand this love, we are continually invited by God into a deeper c…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | 1 Kings 19:12, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Peter 1:18, 2021, Abraham, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Elijah, Fr. Paul D. Scalia, Mark 9:2-10, Moses, Mount Tabor, News, Saint Mark, Saint Peter, Set Apart, The Catholic Thing, The Transfiguration |
Fr. Paul D. Scalia: By our Lenten mortifications and acts of self-denial we separate ourselves and declare our independence from the world.
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Read MoreBetween Moses and Elias Jesus shows forth His divine glory, thus foreshadowing His resurrection. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things. Today’s Mass places before us the transfigured Lord and the model toward Whom we mu…
Read More‘This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!’ (Mk. 9:7) On the second Sunday in Lent we always read the Gospel of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. We do so in order that our focus may be directed towards the glory of Easter and Our Lord’s victory over sin and death by His glorious[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
“Grace builds on nature.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas) This statement from Saint Thomas’s Summa[1] expresses in succinct form the theological insight that creation and redemption are the work of the same God, and hence, at their best, will be in harmony with one another. Consider in this light Saint Paul’s altruistic concern for the needy Christians[…]
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