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Biology major Michael Rohall and Franciscan University biology professor Dr. Kyle McKenna prepare to analyze blood samples for coronavirus specific antibodies. Photo courtesy of the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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Read MoreCNA Staff, Apr 24, 2021 / 06:20 am (CNA). Pope Francis declared a blind 14th-century Italian lay Dominican a saint Saturday using a process known as “equipollent” canonization. The Holy See press office said April […]
Read MoreWhy the story of a 12-year-old Mayan boy named “Juanito” should trouble Christians in comfy secularized countries who believe they’re being persecuted
Read MorePeople well acquainted with Fr. Frank Salmon, OMI, know connecting with him via phone, especially during warmer months, is a bit of a difficult proposition.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, National shrines, News, Prayer, Shrines, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton |
When the world shut down last year because of the pandemic, the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton decided it was time to reach outward.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Amoris Laetitia, Amoris Laetitia Family Year, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, family, News, Vatican |
Pope Francis opened the “Amoris Laetitia” Family Year March 19, encouraging people to read the document, strengthen their families and support other families who may be struggling.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Abuse survivors, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, News |
Teresa Pitt Green, who as a child was sexually abused by Catholic priests, said she is convinced “there’s a lot more hope than people dare to feel.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Archdiocese of Portland, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, George Floyd, News, Oregon, police brutality, Racial justice, Racism |
Like many Americans nationwide, Oregon Catholics received the April 20 conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin with mixed feelings: consolation, skepticism, resolve.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, immigrants and refugees, News, Sweden |
After making the arduous trek from his native Eritrea to the coastal town of Sundsvall, Sweden, in 2014, Solomon Tesfay dreamed of a better life for himself, his wife and three children.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Spain |
In a first public attempt to put numbers to instances of child sex abuse by the country’s Catholic clergy, Spain’s bishops’ conference revealed Friday that 220 cases were officially reported to the Vatican over the past two decades.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic nuns, Church in the US, News, Pennsylvania, Religious Sisters |
“I feel I was predestined even before birth,” Sister Joachim said. “I knew from an extremely young age I would enter religious life.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Associated Press, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Catholic Church, Church bombings, Church in Asia, Islamic extremists, Islamic State, News, Sri Lanka, Terrorism |
Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people.
Read MoreA statue of St. Margaret of Castello at St. Patrick Church in Columbus, Ohio. / Nheyob via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
CNA Staff, Apr 24, 2021 / 06:20 am (CNA).
Pope Francis declared a blind 14th-century Italian lay Dominican a saint Saturday usin…
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“Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the LORD, because he had threatened to destroy you.” (Deuteronomy 9:25) Fr. Dominik Chmielewski SDB was one of several priests who had performed an exorcism on a girl. For many years the demon proved unyielding. Occasionally, a perfect storm of vituperation broke out against[…]
The post Humility Breaks the Pride of The Demon appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreToday is the feast of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, (+1622) whose original name was Mark Rey: ‘Sigmaringen’ was his birthplace in what is now Germany, and he took the name ‘Fidelis’ – faithful – in religion, after he joined the Capuchins in the first decade of the 1600’s. This was just in the era of[…]
The post Fidelis’ Greatest Sermon was His Life appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreThis past Easter Sunday, Fr. Harrison Ayre remembers walking back into St. Peter’s in Nanaimo, B.C., just to gather himself after celebrating the most stressful Mass of his life. Then, just as he sat down in a pew, he heard a bang.
Read MoreCNA Staff, Apr 24, 2021 / 04:27 am (CNA).
A Chicago pastor has stepped away from his parish this week after sexual assault allegations were made against him from 1984. Fr. Larry Sullivan, pastor at Christ the King Church, has been accused …
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