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“Transgender people have always been members of our local parishes and the witness of their lives has leads [sic] us to greater contemplation of God and the mystery of our faith,” said Archbishop John Wester, Bishop John Stowe, and other si…
Read MoreSuicide rates among the Inuit already “range from five to 25 times the Canadian average,” according to the report, and the assisted suicide law could exacerbate the situation.
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, took part in the 5th Brussels conference on Syria.
Read More“It’s time to come back to Mass,” said Bishop Gregory Parkes of St. Petersburg, who said he will issue specific dispensations based on “age, infirmity, underlying conditions or fear.” “It’s time to come back to…
Read More“The donation is intended to be a sign of how real and concrete the Pope’s love for all the Iraqi people is,” said Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako.
Read MoreThe Pope’s prayer intention for March, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes a…
Read MoreIn Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. Bowser, a federal district court halted the enforcement of regulations that directed “the Archdiocese’s churches [to] stop admitting parishioners once they become a quarter full,” while &…
Read MorePope Francis asked members of an Umbrian scout group and a Roman parish (Holy Martyrs of Uganda) to write the meditations.
Read More“One need not profess the Catholic faith to find problems with the Equality Act,” New York’s archbishop writes. “Reason and natural law provide ample grounds for rejecting it. But a Christian perspective can illuminate how the c…
Read MoreFather Pedro de Valderrama, who are part of Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage around the world, celebrated the first Mass on Philippine soil on Easter Sunday 1521.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Some time back, I was engaged in an online forum with some religious skeptics. Under discussion were the usual: the existence of God, the divinity of Jesus, evidence for the resurrection, and so on. For the most part, the participants were civil and without the animus that has been far too typical of these exchanges. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Asia - Pacific, News |
CNA Staff, Apr 1, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).- Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has said that “merciless killings” of protesters following a Feb. 1 military coup have turned Burma into a “21st-century Calvary.” In an Easter message posted on the Facebook page of…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Chrism Mass, Devil, Holy Week, lead, News, Pope Francis, priesthood, Vatican |
Pope Francis on Thursday kicked off his second virtual Holy Week by telling priests that the cross of Jesus Christ, always present in their ministry, is the antidote to the “poison” of the devil, who tries to undo God’s work through lies and scandal.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops, Oil |
Bishop Hyacinth Egbebo of Bomadi called on the Nigerian government to put an end to the oil spills in the Niger Delta region.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Burkina Faso, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Catholic-Muslim relations, Christian-Muslim relations, Church in Africa, Ghana, Islam, Mali, News, Niger, Sahel |
Getting Muslim and Christian young people together to know each other before terrorist groups can sow divisiveness is seen as key to peace in the Sahel region of western Africa, said panelists during a March 30 online workshop presented by Catholic Relief Services.
Read MoreWASHINGTON- The bishops along the border of the United States and Northern Mexico have issued a joint statement on the situation at the border of the two countries.
Their joint statement follows:
As U.S. and Mexican bishops along the border, we witn…
Read MoreReadings for the Chrism MassReadings for the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Chrism Mass
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
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Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998,…
Readings for the Chrism MassReadings for the Holy Thursday
Reading I Ex 12:1-8, 11-14
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This month shall stand at the head of your calendar;
you shall reckon it the first month o…
Readings for the Evening Mass of the Lord’s SupperReadings for the Holy Thursday
Reading I Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me;
He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the l…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, News |
The Church is doing its best to heal El Salvador, with help from organizations such as CONABÚSQUEDA, whose purpose is to investigate and determine what happened to adult victims of El Salvador’s armed conflict, which left more than 75,000 dead and 7,000 to 10,000 disappeared
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