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Asking the question “What is worth dying for?” is “an act of rebellion against a loveless age,” the retired Archbishop of Philadelphia writes in Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living. “And to answer it w…
Read MoreBorn in 1940, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has led the Maronite Church since 2011; based in Bkerké, Lebanon, the church (CNEWA profile) is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See. Hezbollah (Encyclopaedia Britan…
Read More“Everything that is being done is to assure a normal life for the Church in China,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in an interview with a Spanish radio network. Divisions in the Church, he added, result from confusion “between what is e…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, church-state relations, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis, Religious Freedom |
One month after Pope Francis’s historic visit to Iraq, one of the country’s top Catholic prelates has made the bold suggestion of enforcing a stricter separation between religion and the state.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, Lockdowns, News |
Catholic leaders in Brazil are still exercising caution after a supreme court justice authorized the celebration of in-person religious services for the whole country on April 3.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Church in the US, civil rights, Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, Immigration, lead, News, University of Notre Dame |
Decades ago, Father Theodore Hesburgh sought answers to the issues that plagued the nation through an approach that many people preach is needed to solve the issues of today: he listened. He listened to both sides, and directly to those who were affected most.
Read MoreHans Küng, the theologian whose work drew a censure from the Vatican, died on April 6 at his home in Tubingen, Germany, at the age of 93.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, happiness, Heaven, News, Salvation, Sophia Excerpts, wealth |
“I Can Find Heaven on Earth” The person who says this usually means he hopes to find happiness by the accumulation of riches. Although it seems that few people actually make that statement, a good number live as if that were their goal. The fictional play Doctor Faustus portrays a man who proposes a pact […]
All too often when Catholics get together and discuss the Church, their conversations consist of talking about the problems in the Church, rather than about Jesus and all that is good in the Church. We are all aware of these problems: Catholics who consider themselves “good Catholics” while denying some of the Church’s teachings (even […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | 2021, Abortion, and most notably, Catholic college, Christian marriage, Columns, Hadley Arkes, Hadley Arkes: What is most distinct to human nature is reasoning, human nature, Immanuel Kant, Natural Law, News, reasoning over matters of right and wrong., Same-sex "Marriage", The Catholic Thing, Visit to a Familiar Now Distant Place, ” incest |
Hadley Arkes: What is most distinct to human nature is reasoning, and most notably, reasoning over matters of right and wrong.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Easter, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Jesus, News, Resurrection |
The winter snows melt and spring flowers blossom and emanate their beautiful fragrance. The sharp thorns fade and the pink glowing rose sprouts and adorns the colorful meadow. These are merely analogies in nature of the greatest of all events: the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! A hardened sinner moved by grace, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s Holy Thursday Mass, which he delegated to Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, and strolled across…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | In the News, News |
Following Good Friday services at Notre-Dame de Paris on April 2nd, the cathedral’s rector said that the burned-out landmark and…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Commentary, News |
These new religions lack only one thing: something transcendent that makes the failure in our lives redemptive, and that sees…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | In the News, News |
In his “Urbi et Orbi” message on Sunday, Pope Francis noted that “once again this year, in various places many…
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Read MoreThe true origin of marriage, venerable brothers, is well known to all. Though revilers of the Christian faith refuse to…
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Read MoreThe first eight days of the Easter season form the Easter octave and are celebrated as solemnities of the Lord. Each day is another little Easter. The Alleluia verse is repeated throughout the octave: “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
The center of Easter is the resurrection and not the empty tomb. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ. At times, especially in previous ages, we focused too much on the death of Christ. Today we are told to focus both on his death and subsequent triumphant resurrection. Our faith is based on the resurrection of […]
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