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Bishop-elect William Koenig of Wilmington. / Courtesy photo.
Vatican City, Apr 30, 2021 / 06:15 am (CNA).
Pope Francis appointed Friday a new bishop of Wilmington, the home diocese of President Joe Biden.The pope selected Msgr. William Koenig to…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Bible in 5, Gary Zimak, News, Prayer |
by Gary Zimak Have you ever prayed for something for a long time with no apparent results? You pray and pray and hear nothing … not even crickets. During times like this, it’s common to question if God is even listening. You may begin to wonder if pray…
Read MoreA year after three migrant farm workers died in Ontario and COVID-19 infections ran rampant in bunkhouses, Fr. Peter Ciallella is worried about this year’s growing season.
Read MoreThe tomb of José Gregorio Hernández in the Church of Our Lady of Candelaria in Caracas, Venezuela. / Guillermo Ramos Flamerich via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Vatican City, Apr 30, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis sent a video message for the b…
The Holy See has asks Europe-based intergovernmental agency to include faith communities in the law-making process.
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Washington D.C., Apr 30, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
New Census numbers show the U.S. had its slowest decade of population growth since the Great Depression – and experts say this confirms a pre-existing downward trend. On Mo…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option advocates a simple response to modernity: retreat, re-arm, and renew. Basing his battle plan on that of the sixth century founder of Western monasticism, Dreher argued that, just as St. Benedict abandoned the decadence of a declining Roman Empire, so Christians today should respond to a society crumbling into […]
Connecticut becomes the sixth state without religious exemptions to vaccination; the others are California, New York, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Maine.
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Read MoreBishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux has left in place the dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation.
Read MoreThe legislation “requires the government to have a compelling reason to violate a person’s constitutional right to freedom of religion and to meet its goals in the least restrictive way possible,” the Associated Press reported.
Read MorePatriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church since 2009, revealed that in the early 1990s, he was asked “to lead the [political] struggle against the hated regime.” He declined because it would compromise the Church’s mis…
Read MoreKenyan bishops, who have encouraged vaccination, distanced themselves from a statement made by Dr. Stephen Karanja, head of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, who said that “vaccination for this disease is totally unnecessary.”
Read More“What is unique about Medjugorje is that the tourism of the pilgrimage industry is pretty much the only thing keeping the local economy afloat, according to the report in the Calvert Journal, an online magazine that covers Eastern Europe and Russia.
Read MoreThe legislation prevents biological males from competing in women’s high school and college sports.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
There are few topics that are of greater importance than “rights.” At the same time, the topic of rights has been egregiously misunderstood and fraudulently represented. What are rights? Are they the exclusive domain of human beings? What is the basis of a right? How can rights be protected? Can there be rights without duties? […]
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Ireland. / Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).
CNA Staff, Apr 30, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
Irish Catholics’ long wait to return to public Masses will end on May 10, Ireland’s prime minister announc…
WASHINGTON – Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas, and episcopal promoter of Stella Maris in the United States, is encouraging dioceses to mark the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea on May 22. The day is i…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Michael J. Sheridan, 76, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Colorado Springs and has appointed Father James R. Golka, a priest of the Diocese of Grand Island as Bishop-elect of …
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop W. Francis Malooly, 77, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Wilmington and has appointed Monsignor William E. Koenig, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre as Bishop-elect …
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