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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News |
The Legion of Christ, a Catholic order disgraced by sexual abuse committed by its founder and other clergy, is facing new allegations of molestation of children in lawsuits filed this month in Connecticut, where it is based.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Church in Europe, lead, Mediterranean, Migrants, News, Pope Francis, Sea Watch, Sicily |
One Italian bishop has said Pope Francis’s push for greater brotherhood and solidarity is needed more than ever following the death last week of 130 migrants who for two days issued distress calls to no avail when their boat met trouble in the Mediterranean.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua |
In their homilies this weekend, both Bishop Silvio Baez, auxiliary of Managua, and Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa had a similar message addressed to Nicaragua’s political class.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Catholic Church, chad, Church in Africa, lead, News |
Catholic bishops in Chad have called for dialogue and reconciliation following the death of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | family, Featured, Marriage & Family, News, parenthood, Saints |
The great Bishop Fulton Sheen once remarked on his hit television show that if you “marry the spirit of the age… you become a widow in the next.” This phrase kept coming to the front of my mind last year when my wife and I were looking for children’s books to read to our newborn. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
There is nothing greater on earth than the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; it is where Heaven unites with earth in a symphony of praise, adoration, worship, thanksgiving, supplication, and reparation. Before offering a ten-step program to improve our participation in Holy Mass, let us spend a brief time in meditating and reflecting on what […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
I remember going to my parents as a little boy to ask for a new thing like a shoe or bag. I always received the same answer, “What happened to your old shoe or bag?” I learned that I had to show that the old items had been carefully and well used before I could […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, How the Year of St. Joseph Should Change Me, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pius XII feast day of St. Joseph the Worker, Pope Francis, prayer of Leo XIII to St. Joseph, St. Pope John XXIII’s Le Voci, The Catholic Thing, Year of St. Joseph |
Michael Pakaluk: May devotion to the father of Jesus in the year devoted to him help us achieve his beauty, vibrancy, and serenity.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Many traditional procedures for saying Mass have been modified over the last half-century. But the Catholic faith is not something…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | In the News, News |
The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Francis will hold an Ordinary Public Consistory next week, the last step before…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | In the News, News |
An effort to change Mexico’s constitution to legalize abortion and embrace gender ideology has been put on hold, at the…
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Read MoreGordon, the self-refusing, Gordon, the lover of God, Gordon, the good part choosing, Welcome along the road! Thou knowest the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Commentary, News |
A recent report on the persecution of Christians by Aid to the Church in Need makes clear how dangerous it…
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Read MoreAccording to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Peter Canisius. His feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on December 21.
Read MoreA Chinese Catholic layman was fined for “facilitating illegal religious activities” after he invited Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin, who is not recognized by the government, to celebrate Mass in a private chapel in his home. Under the terms of th…
Read MoreArchbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., has been a prominent voice in the Church for decades. A Capuchin priest, he served as bishop of the Diocese of Rapid City (South Dakota) from 1988-1997, at which […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Catholic Faith, News |
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