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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, lead, News, sanctions, Syria, United States, Vatican |
A week after the Vatican called on the international community to lift the sanctions imposed against Syria, an official from the United States Department of State argued that they target the “regime and criminal behavior” of Bashar al-Assad and not the people.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, CNEWA, Congregation for Eastern Churches, COVID-19 pandemic, Good Friday, Holy See, humanitarian aid, lead, News |
When Michael La Civita of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association considers how the agency prioritizes where to send aid, he says the best way to describe it is like a “triage,” given the crises so many countries face.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic Church, Climate change, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Renewing his calls for an integral ecology and pastoral reach to climate displaced people, Pope Francis channeled his inner William Shakespeare, arguing that when engulfed by images of people uprooted by changes in climate, “to see or not to see, that is the question!”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Stations 1 / 8 / 14 1. Judgment Amazed he was at his naivete, This Jewish “king” from some pathetic town Up north. Had he not well enough conveyed The power he had to nail the fe…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
There are four “Songs of the Suffering Servant of the Lord”. These are poems that have been gathered together in the second part of the Book of Isaiah. They describe the mission of the servant and vacillate between the voice of the prophet and the voice of God. Early Christians associated these poems with the […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Easter Triduum, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Holy Week, Lent, News |
Each year God showers us with countless blessings, especially in the Season of Lent, Holy Week, culminating in Easter—the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, His triumph over sin, the devil, and death itself. However, the effects of these Holy days are in direct proportion to our interior disposition of soul, openness to […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Best of Week, Featured, interior life, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Joseph |
Saint Joseph is called the most obscure among the saints. There is good reason for this remark. His exterior life passes along in obscurity, and his interior life, in which the saint is great and unique, is essentially darkness and shadow. The exterior view of Saint Joseph’s life presents nothing extraordinary or striking. Nothing has […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | 2021, Anthony Esolen, bodily autonomy, Columns, cooperation with evil, Edmund Burke, Gibbeting the carcass, News, rainbow flag, Sexual Revolution, Take Down the Flag, The Catholic Thing, totalitarian ideologies of sex, Vatican ruling same-sex blessing |
Anthony Esolen: It’s not necessary to point at individuals, but that “rainbow” flag, which stands for the whole sexual revolution, must go.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Orthodox Christians won’t celebrate Easter until May 2 — nearly a month after “Catholic Easter.” In fact, for the whole…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Author and artist Michael O’Brien speaks with the Register about his early struggles as an artist and a father of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | In the News, News |
The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world has shown steady growth, while the number of religious men…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | In the News, News |
Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup’s…
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Read MoreThe morality of the human act depends primarily and fundamentally on the “object” rationally chosen by the deliberate will, as is borne out…
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Read MoreIn the March 31, 2021, General Audience Address, on the eve of the Easter Triduum, Pope Francis focused on the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ.
Read MoreWednesday of Holy Week is traditionally called “Spy Wednesday” because Judas bargained with the High Priest to turn betray Jesus for thirty silver pieces (Matt 26:14-16; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:1-6). In Poland, the young people throw an effigy of Judas …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
Have you ever thought of putting yourself in the shoes of one of the apostles seated around Christ at this Passover supper? How would you react to his prophecy of betrayal? Would you also reply – Is it I Lord?
Every Sunday we eat and drink with Ch…
Read MoreMore than 500 protesters have been killed by troops in Myanmar, and over 2,500 arrested, but the pro-democracy demonstrations continue. Government planes have carried out raids against villages controlled by opposition forces. Two thousand people have …
Read MoreThe Vatican has announced plans to make papal audiences available in sign language. Beginning with the Urbi et Orbi blessing this Easter Sunday, sign-language interpretations of papal audiences will be posted on the Youtube channel of Vatican News.
Read MoreAn Irish priest who has already been fined for celebrating Mass reports that he was again harassed by police on Sunday. “They intimidated me, and they intimidated the people,” says Father P.J. Hughes. He insists that he will not pay a fine….
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