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Bishop Charles Drennan resigned in 2019 after a non-criminal relationship with a young woman came to light. “I really don’t know why he is still a bishop,” Cardinal John Dew told the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care. “That i…
Read MoreSister Bhagya (who uses only her first name) was recently released on bail in the central Indian state (map).
Read More“Let us pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis, that they may see their sacrifice and their work bear abundant fruit,” Pope Fran…
Read MoreIn May 2020, Pope Francis began a series Wednesday general audiences on prayer; that series has continued in 2021.
Read MoreIn “Veneremur Cernui – Down in Adoration Falling,” Bishop Thomas Olmsted recommends to the faithful daily Mass and more frequent Eucharistic adoration, and asks priests to lead an annual Eucharistic procession in their parishes.
Read MoreAs tempting as it may be to treat social activism as if it were our highest calling, in fact, it is not. Father Jeffrey Kirby’s new book, Real Religion, attacks the idea that biblical religion can be reduced to a kind of social activism. We asked…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
We’ve been writing for years about the crisis of manhood, and that crisis has come to a head within the past year, particularly in the Catholic Church. Now we write to call our men to be what God created them to be. The faithful have been abused through a year of cancelled Masses, locked churches, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
To celebrate Easter properly, we should probably recall Luca Signorelli’s 1499 masterpiece The Sermon and Deeds of the Anti-Christ. It now hangs in the Chapel of San Brizio in Orvieto. Upon first glance, it appears that Christ stands in the foreground. Then the observer realizes that it is not Christ at all. It is an […]
WASHINGTON—Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Daniel J. Felton as Bishop of Duluth. Bishop-elect Felton is a priest of the Diocese of Green Bay and currently serves as a vicar general and moderator of the curia for Green Bay. The appointment was publicize…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Most Reverend John O’Hara, 75, as Auxiliary Bishop of New York.
The resignation was publicized in Washington on April 7, 2021 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United S…
Read MoreRome Newsroom, Apr 7, 2021 / 02:30 am (CNA).- The prior of Taizé has said that his community sees how young people are longing to meet together again in Christian fellowship as France and other European countries remain under strict lockdowns this spri…
Read MoreReading I Acts 3:1-10
Peter and John were going up to the temple area
for the three o’clock hour of prayer.
And a man crippled from birth was carried
and placed at the gate of the temple called “the Beautiful Gate” every day
to beg f…
The influential and controversial Swiss theologian Hans Küng died Tuesday at the age of 93. The German Catholic Church’s official website said that Küng died on the afternoon of April 6 at his home in Tübingen, southwest Germany. Küng served as a theological adviser at the Second Vatican Council but repeatedly clashed with Rome in
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Ten years ago last month, the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church took a striking decision: it elected its youngest member, 40-year old Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, as leader of the largest of the eastern […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Germany, Hans Küng, lead, News, Obituary, papal infallibility, Theology, Vatican II |
With the death on Tuesday of the 93-year-old Father Hans Küng, liberal post-Vatican II Catholicism has lost its muse, and the entire Church has lost someone who never failed to make things more interesting.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | disability, Evangelization, lead, News, Pope Francis, Social media, Technology, Vatican, YouTube |
The Vatican over the weekend launched a new Sign Language service on its YouTube account, and plans are being made to develop other technological tools that would help the disabled more easily access papal content.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Bishop Matthew Kukah, Boko Haram, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops, President Muhammadu Buhari |
A Nigerian bishop has drawn the ire of the government after saying the country has become a killing field under President Muhammadu Buhari.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by George Herbert. Easter Song I got me flowers to straw Thy way, I got me boughs off many a tree; But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee. The sun arising in the…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
“Trials of every kind are temporary, a matter of patient endurance. Trials in the interior life are no different… Yet nothing of pain is insurmountable. Every interior trial simply asks us to cross a threshold more deeply into the mysterious presence of God within our soul.” —Fr. Donald Haggerty, Contemplative Enigmas, 171 Frustrated, I placed […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
I was praying the Liturgy of the Hours in the morning with a religious community of priests and brothers when they did something that really edified me. In the course of the prayers, the prayer-leader said, “Let us briefly renew our religious vows and consecration in silence.” They all paused for about ten seconds before […]
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