Legionaries of Christ leader meets with Pope (National Catholic Register)
Since 2020, Father John Connor has led the religious community, founded in 1941 by the disgraced Father Marcial Maciel (1920-2008).
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Since 2020, Father John Connor has led the religious community, founded in 1941 by the disgraced Father Marcial Maciel (1920-2008).
Read More177 Wisconsin priests have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, according to the report.
Read MoreMsgr. Janusz Urbańczyk is Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Office in Vienna, as well as several Vienna-based agencies; he made his remarks at a counterterrorism conference organized by the Organization for Security and Co-opera…
Read MoreFive priests and two nuns were among ten people kidnapped on April 11. Catholic schools have temporarily closed in protest.
Read MoreThe legalization of abortion means “publicly recognizing murder,” the bishops said in their statement. “Millions of fetuses, every year, are exposed to the threat of abortion, without any protection.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The decline of the Catholic Church in America was happening rapidly before COVID-19. Returning to the methods that produced the radical decline in Sunday Mass attendance along with the low numbers of marriages, baptisms, catechumens, and overall members practicing their faith would be both ignorant and fatal. What we need now is a shift that […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Asia - Pacific, News |
British human rights campaigner Benedict Rogers / Courtesy photo
CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
A British human rights activist has said that it would make a “big difference” if the Vatican publicly expressed its concerns about the ac…
Reading I Acts 9:1-20
Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord,
went to the high priest and asked him
for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that,
if he should find any men or women who belonged to…
Pope Francis appealed to “all the leaders of the world to act with courage, to act with justice and to always tell people the truth, so that people know how to protect themselves from the destruction of the planet, how to protect the planet from …
Read MoreThe crisis, according to Eastern Catholic patriarchs and bishops, is marked by “hunger, misery, poverty and rampant unemployment” and is due not only “to the new coronavirus pandemic, but to the absence of a government.”
Read MoreThe Pro Recco team met with Pope Francis on April 22; the team tweeted that its members were deeply moved.
Read MoreIn December 2020, Pope Francis Angelus announced a year of reflection on his 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), devoted to joy in the family. The year began on March 19, the fifth anniversary of the document’s publica…
Read More“The bodies of children killed by abortion deserve the same respect as that of any other person,” said Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City (KS). “Our government has no right to treat innocent abortion victims as a commodity that …
Read MoreThe 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings killed 269 people and injured over 500.
Read MoreOn April 25, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, the Church commemorates the 58th World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Pope Francis’s message for the day is entitled “Saint Joseph: The Dream of Vocation,” and the US Conference of Catholic Bish…
Read MoreAt the assembly (Spanish-language website), the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean will develop plans for the upcoming decade.
Read More“Church leadership itself has been a fundamental cause of the loss of too many Catholics as clergy were revealed to have engaged in sordid criminal sexual behavior – especially harming young people,” writes Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washin…
Read MoreWilliam Shakespeare, widely considered the greatest writer the English language has ever produced, died on April 23, 1616—and there is some evidence suggesting he was born on the same date in 1564. In a short […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, President Joe Biden, Transgender |
The Biden administration has filed an appeal April 20 of a Jan. 19 federal court’s ruling to block an Affordable Care Act provision barring discrimination by health insurers and providers against transgender people.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Idaho, News, the pro-life movement |
The Idaho Senate approved a measure called the Heartbeat Bill April 20 that would ban almost all abortions after an unborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, which could be as early as six weeks, and the measure has been sent to Gov. Brad Little’s desk.
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