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The papal message was written by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, and read aloud by Archbishop José Ulloa of Panama during a special March 24 Mass.
Read More“Just four days after releasing a plan that would see limited indoor religious gatherings just in time for Easter, health officials have backpedalled on that plan,” the report begins.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Biblical Exposition, Holidays/Feast Days, News |
A lot is going on this week leading up to Easter. Here are two timelines that will help you navigate.
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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In those periodic moments where public discourse centers on the topic of pornography, it is always put in terms of the individual. There is abundant science behind pornography consumption, showing its effects on the brain and one’s reproductive health as well as its addictiveness. Many critics will also point out how constant stimulation of pornographic […]
The Fabric of Saint Peter is responsible for the maintenance and management of St. Peter’s Basilica. In June 2020, Archbishop Mario Giordana, a retired nuncio, was appointed the Fabric’s extraordinary commissioner and given the task of &ld…
Read MoreSister Jane Herb, IHM, is president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents nearly 80% of the religious sisters in the United States.
Read MoreAn Islamist insurgency began in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in 2017.
Read MoreOn March 29, Pope Francis received priests and students from the Pontifical Mexican College in Rome.
Read More“The wounds and divisions that unfortunately still characterize the life of this city of ours must not discourage us,” Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, said in his Palm Sunday message. “On the contrary, they must push us with …
Read More“Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup’s eight-decade trend,” according to Gallup. “In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a chu…
Read MoreStephen Kelly placed a cross alongside US Highway 12 in Montana in memory of his stepson. After the state transportation department removed the cross, Kelly filed suit, alleging his religious freedom was infringed. A court upheld the cross’s remo…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
I was just a kid when the Second Vatican Council was brewing. It was called an ecumenical council; that is, a council meant to be universal in scope. The ecumenism that was of specific interest to the council was focused on communicating with non-Catholics; that is, there was interest in reducing unnecessary friction between religions, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Palm Sunday, Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan |
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, visiting from the patriarchate in Beirut, led about 20,000 Christians through the streets of Qaraqosh Palm Sunday, March 28.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Julian Assange, lead, News, Pope Francis, Prison, Vatican, wikileaks |
On Palm Sunday, Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks who made headlines in 2010 for publishing thousands of confidential US diplomatic documents, received a personal letter from Pope Francis.
Read MoreWASHINGTON –In March 2021, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Administrative Committee voted to align its nationwide liturgical celebration of youth and young adults, which was traditionally celebrated on Palm Sunday, with the ne…
Read MoreReading I Is 49:1-6
Hear me, O islands,
listen, O distant peoples.
The LORD called me from birth,
from my mother’s womb he gave me my name.
He made of me a sharp-edged sword
and concealed me in the shadow of his arm.
He ma…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Religious Freedom, Russia |
The secretary-general of the Russian bishops’ conference said new legal regulations will give state officials extra powers to intervene in church life and revive communist-era restrictions.
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