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Reading I Acts 3:11-26
As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John,
all the people hurried in amazement toward them
in the portico called “Solomon’s Portico.”
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people,
“You child…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Equality Act, LGBT, News |
Catholic scholar and legal expert Ryan T. Anderson warned that if the Equality Act is passed by the Senate and signed into law, it would significantly impact women’s privacy and safety, genuine equality, medical practices and religious liberty.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Archdiocese of San Antonio, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News |
As the U.S. took in almost 19,000 migrant children, labeled “unaccompanied minors,” in March, faith-based organizations such as Catholic Charities throughout the U.S. have been doing their part to help.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Church, Catholic Health Association, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Vaccinations, Vaccines |
On World Health Day, April 7, a new group of 31 U.S. Catholic organizations encouraged people to get the COVID-19 vaccine as an act of charity and solidarity with others.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, clerical sexual abuse, East Timor, News, second |
The case of an abusive priest in East Timor is causing shockwaves in the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Cardinal Peter Turkson, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic News Service, COVID-19 pandemic, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, News, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Vatican |
Ensuring equal access to health care, especially for the less fortunate, can only be achieved through a “renewed moral commitment by the countries with the greatest resources to the countries most in need,” Cardinal Peter Turkson said.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, statute of limitations |
The Pennsylvania House approved a bill Wednesday to establish a two-year window for civil claims over childhood sexual abuse, part of a belt-and-suspenders approach that also includes a potential constitutional amendment.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Nuns, Pennsylvania, pipeline, Religious Sisters |
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have returned to court arguing that the existence of a 3-year-old natural gas pipeline through their land in Pennsylvania violates their religious freedom rights guaranteed under a 1993 law.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Cardinal Sean O'Malley, human resources, lead, Monsignor Robert Oliver, News, News Analysis, Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, Vatican, Vatican reform |
The recent departure of American Monsignor Robert Oliver as secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Minors forms a small part of a bigger picture about a largely undiagnosed HR pandemic in the Vatican.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Dominicans, lead, News, Poland |
The Dominican province in Poland has started an independent, lay-led investigation of a sect-like youth ministry ran by Dominican Father “Paweł M.” between 1996-2000 in Wrocław.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | *, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, forgiveness, holiness, News, Parenting |
The other day I had a discussion with my daughter about the long path to holiness. She was having a difficult day. We had just spent three weeks visiting my family in my native state of Montana. We were on our way back to Virginia and had already spent three days in the car. Exhaustion […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Best of Week, Divine Mercy, Divine Mercy Sunday, Faith & Spirituality, Faustina Kowalska, Featured, News |
Easter Sunday is not the end of our Easter celebration. After forty days of preparation with Lent, and the Easter Triduum, from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday, it is easy to miss looking ahead on the Church’s liturgical calendar. This is, after all, the climax of the Christian year with the celebration of the Passion, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Carlin, golden mean, mean between extremes, News, Racism, sexual excess, sin, Temporary Madness, The Catholic Thing |
David Carlin: There’s such a thing as too much freedom, as when indulge an eight-year-old boy decision to be a girl if he feels like it.
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Read MoreWhat is it that I want to say about being Catholic? Walker Percy’s remark — and I got this from…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Leftists have the advantage that their views line up with technological methods that have proven themselves immediately effective. Rightists have…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | In the News, News |
Gianluigi Colalucci, who led what was known as the restoration of the century — the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel…
The post Vatican art restorer dies at 91 appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Commentary, News |
After the Resurrection, He says to her: “Do not cling to me . . .” What the Lord asks of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | In the News, News |
Catholic teaching sees the Eucharist as Christ’s transformative sacrifice on the cross and this Holy Communion must only be received…
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Read More“Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you!'” The Gospel tells of an appearance of Jesus in the Cenacle on the very day of His resurrection. The newly baptized (neophytes) and all Christians with them, must live like the risen…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Columns, Features, News, The Past Present |
In the column I wrote as we began Lent, I reflected on the somewhat scandalous tradition of Carnival as practiced in the traditional Catholic cultures of the Mediterranean. Northern Catholic cultures tended to delay their […]
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