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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, migrants and refugees, News, U.S.-Mexico border |
Migrants arriving in Ciudad Juárez in recent years have remained stuck in the Mexican border city, unable to claim asylum in the United States and vulnerable to crimes such as kidnapping, robbery and extortion.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, COVID-19 pandemic, India, News |
An oxygen leak at a government hospital in India has killed 22 COVID-19 patients as the entire country faces a huge shortage of oxygen to support pandemic-hit patients.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Wisconsin |
Attorney General Josh Kaul plans to launch an investigation into clergy sexual assault across Wisconsin’s five Catholic dioceses, perhaps as early as next week.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Abortion, Arkansas, Idaho, News, Ohio, Oklahoma, pro-life, The Dispatch |
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 22, 2021 / 20:01 pm (CNA). Numerous states of the US have been considering bills regulating abortion in recent weeks. In Idaho, a bill which would ban abortion after the detection […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Interviews, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
With Russia building up its troops in the border with Ukraine, Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the current head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, is warning the conflict is not only a threat for the region, but for the world.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Amoris Laetitia, Dicastery for Family Laity and Life, Discernment, family life, Jesuits, lead, News, Pontifical Gregorian University, Vatican |
A Jesuit priest and expert in discernment has voiced his belief that many families don’t actually understand what the popular spiritual concept means, and suggested training courses be launched at the local level.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Good Shepherd, meditations, News, Sophia Excerpts |
The Fourth Sunday of Easter receives the special designation of Good Shepherd Sunday. In the Gospels, Jesus calls Himself the Good Shepherd, for He is the shepherd of our souls. Recall how many times Jesus fed people during His public ministry and even after the Resurrection.
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus speaks of Himself as “the Good Shepherd,” an identification that reaches back all the way to Moses and forward all the way to every bishop’s staff. How? Gospel (Read Jn 10:11-18) In St. John’s Gospel, after a long description of Jesus’ healing of a man born blind (with all the […]
Denver’s Archbishop Samuel Aquila and Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich have disagreed over the proper reception of the Eucharist. The Pillar news site reveals that Cardinal Cupich—who has argued against withholding the Eucharist from s…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Ezekiel, Faith, faithfulness, Featured, forgiveness, Good Shepherd, Jeremiah, Living the Faith, Love, News, shepherd, sin |
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Read MoreAbout 100 people were injured during violent protests in Jerusalem on April 22, and tensions rose during Islamic prayer sessions on Friday, after a series of confrontations between Muslim and Jewish activists. The conflicts arose after police in Jerusa…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Daily Quote, Gratitude, News, Saints, St. Ignatius of Loyola |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | 1830s America, 2021, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Democracy in America, Francis X. Maier, Joseph R. Wood, News, The Catholic Thing, totalitarian liberty, Towards a New and Quite Different Tocqueville |
Joseph R. Wood: We need shepherds to lead us from godless illusions about equality to the lost truths of dogma.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | In the News, News |
Cardinal Blase Cupich has said he will turn over the investigation of popular local priest, Michael Pfleger, accused of sexual…
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Read MoreAt the present time, more than in any preceding one, Roman Catholics are seen to lapse into infidelity, and Protestants…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | contrition, Encountering the Word, forgiveness, Mercy, News, Old Testament, Psalms, Scripture |
Encountering the Word — Your Daily Bible Verses Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! (Psalm 51:1-2) Please…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | Commentary, News |
For the past two generations or so, Catholics have been exhorted not only by the larger secular culture but by…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2021 | In the News, News |
The Vatican has announced a rosary initiative dedicating the month of May to prayer for an end to the coronavirus…
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Read MoreVeneration of St. George comes from the east, probably from Palestine where he was held in high honor as a martyr. Regarded as the patron of Christian armies, he is venerated under this title by the Latins as well as by the Greeks. In England this feas…
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