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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Best of Week, Featured, News, Saints, spiritual motherhood, St. Catherine of Siena |
St. Catherine of Siena is an example to us of the tremendous gifts of the love of a spiritual mother on fire with God’s love and a deep desire for souls to reach the heights of heaven. While the call to spiritual motherhood can vary based on God’s designs, it is a vocation that calls a woman to a deep and expansive love for the sake of Christ and His Church through Our Blessed Mother.
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured, News, Saints, St. Catherine of Siena |
Catherine of Siena moved in remarkably wide circles for a woman of fourteenth century Italy. She was a mystic whose plunge into God plunged her deep into the affairs of society, Church and the souls of all those who came under her influence. (Suzanne Noffke, O.P., The Dialogue, Foreword, xi.) I am very grateful that […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mary, May Month of Mary, News |
I have a huge devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but I’m impeded by a lack of design skill (or interest, really) and a streak of laziness that allows me to be overwhelmed at the drop of a flower. Last year, I pulled myself together enough to clear a space on a shelf and have […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | 'Centesimus Annus' turns 30, 2021, Columns, George Weigel, News, Poland, Pope Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate, Russ Hittinger, Stephen P. White, Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society, The Catholic Thing |
Stephen P. White: Anyone concerned about socialism will profit from John Paul II’s great encyclical. It has a prophetic quality that endures.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis responded Wednesday to reports of poor governance, financial mismanagement and moral failings in the Ecuadorian diocese of Riobamba…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Commentary, News |
These top 10 shocking examples come from the latest emails uncovered by Judicial Watch’s FOIA request and recent investigations. …
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | In the News, News |
Pell’s comments come as members of the Church in Germany are planning on May 10 to hold a day of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Timothy P. O’Malley, director of online education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life and academic director of the Notre…
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Read MoreThe puny child who knows he can have but little love, When by chance upon his face he feels a…
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Read MoreCatherine Benincasa, born in Siena at a date that remains uncertain, was favored with visions from the age of seven. Becoming a tertiary of the Dominican Order, she acquired great influence by her life of prayer and extraordinary mortifications as well…
Read MoreIn a new bid to address persistent concerns about financial improprieties, Pope Francis has issued a motu proprio that sets tough standards for all Vatican officials.
Read MoreOn April 29, the Polish bishops’ conference is observing a National Day of Martyrdom of the Polish Clergy, in memory of the priests and religious who died in concentration camps during World War II. The date is the 76th anniversary of the liberat…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages |
We had a relaxed morning today and everyone had time to walk along the beach and enjoy the sunny location before we boarded our bus and left at 10:30 for the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche (of the Milk) at Mission Nombre de Dios (Name of God). The name of the milk […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Blessed Mother, Catholic Watchmen, Mother's Day, News, Our Lady of Fatima |
As we celebrate the crowning of the Blessed Mother early in May, commemorate the feast of Our Lady of Fatima midway through, and close out the month memorializing the Visitation, it is indeed apropos that a secular feast — Mother’s Day — is also highlighted.
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Washington D.C., Apr 28, 2021 / 19:05 pm (CNA).
Pro-life advocates are concerned over the nomination of Samantha Power to head a critical U.S. international aid agency. Earlier this month, Preside…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Commentary, Human life and dignity, Minnesota Legislature, News, Regular session |
Minnesota’s Legislature ends its regular session in mid-May. This deadline makes right now a key time for Catholics to fulfill the missionary call to bring our faith into the public arena by speaking up for policies that uphold life and dignity.
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