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“This Easter, perhaps more than ever, there is good reason to be hopeful in our faith and to live a true Christian realism where we clearly acknowledge the reality of our present situation with all its lights and shadows,” said Archbishop R…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Border Patrol, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, Sister Norma Pimentel, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border |
Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — a time-saving move that has left migrants confused.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Connecticut, News, Religious exemptions, Vaccinations |
A key Connecticut legislative committee on Wednesday advanced retooled legislation that scraps a long-standing state religious exemption that many parents have been using over the past decade to avoid having their children vaccinated, while still enabling them to attend public school.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, Lockdowns, News, Republic of Ireland |
Bishops in Ireland are calling on the government to take the spiritual needs of the population into consideration, noting the country is the only one in Western Europe to continue to ban public worship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Apr 1, 2021 / 01:10 am (CNA).- The Visitation to Seven Churches is a Holy Thursday devotion primarily practiced in Latin America, Italy, Poland and the Philippines.It involves traveling to seven local churches after the Mass of the Lor…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | BJP, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, India, Kerala, lead, News, Nuns |
An incident when four religious sisters were detained on a train India has become an election issue in the state of Kerala, which goes to the polls to elect their state assembly on April 6.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Holy Week, lead, News, sacred music, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican |
At a time when enjoying choir music in churches is banned almost everywhere in the world due to COVID-19 restrictions, two young German tenors recorded a series of songs inspired by Christ’s passion and his resurrection in an empty St. Peter’s Basilica, with new songs being released every day from Wednesday until Easter Sunday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Features, interview, James Matthew Wilson, Joshua Hren, Literature, News, Poetry, University of St. Thomas |
The University of St. Thomas in Houston, founded by the Basilian Fathers in 1947 and home to over 3,000 students, has established a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program that promises to be […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, Apr 1, 2021 / 12:00 am (CNA).- The Divine Mercy Novena begins tomorrow, Good Friday.Our Blessed Lord gave Sr. Faustina (for herself only initially) a Novena to His Mercy. She was to start it on Good Friday, that wonderful day when Christ fir…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catherine Doherty, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Holy Week, Lent, News, suffering, The Passion |
In the last few months, Our Lord has taken me to my very limits physically, mentally, and spiritually. He took everything that I thought I possessed or controlled away from me. Being the spiritual infant that I am, I could not understand what He was doing. I grew frustrated and angry. I was sick, exhausted, […]
CNA Staff, Mar 31, 2021 / 10:20 pm (CNA).- Christians will celebrate Easter at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre this year after the storied church remained closed last Easter due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriar…
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Pandemic restrictions impacted Christian worship during their holiest of weeks in March 2020, but those regulations have had continued negative consequences on the faith throughout the course of the last year or so. This is a pivotal issue because humanity truly runs the course established by religion because our worship determines our culture. The word […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Anne Catherine Emmerich, Easter Triduum, Featured, Holy Days & Feasts, Holy Thursday, News, The Dolorous Passion |
Today is Holy Thursday, also known colloquially as “Maundy Thursday,” which begins the Easter Triduum. What does “Maundy” mean? It’s a derivative of the language used in the “new commandment” given by Christ as he washed the feet of the […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholic demographics in the U.S., Catholicism, Columns, Gallup poll, minority status, News, Not a Loaf but Leaven, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing |
Stephen P. White: American Catholics are a minority, albeit a large one, and our political and cultural clout can blind us to this reality.
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A man returned from a journey to the realm of the dead. Death, relentless in its finality, no longer had…
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Joseph brought Jesus to the Temple many times; now in sight of that very Temple Judas brings the cohort to…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
In the contemplation of Christ’s Passion during Holy Week, Pope Francis said he is thinking also of the innocent victims…
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Read MoreTime has a purpose. The meaning of a sentence becomes clear when we put a period at the end of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
According to a Pew Research Center, 67% of U.S. Catholics say President Joe Biden, who has contradicted Church teaching on…
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