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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, World News |
Written by more than 30 experts and running to more than 700 pages all told, the report looks at religious freedom violations in 196 countries – basically every country on earth – and covers trouble spots both on and off journalists’ radar screens.
The post Alarming Trends in Major ACN Report on Global Religious Liberty appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Cardinal Cantalamessa, Division, News, Opinion, Pope Francis, Schism, synodality |
“To be clear,” Paul Fahey argues in this essay, “this is not a conservative or liberal problem. Cantalamessa is not chastising any particular political agenda. He is criticizing the subjugation of the Gospel to any ideology.”
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Cardinal Cantalamessa, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Division, Francis, News, Opinion, Pope Francis, Schism, synodality |
In his Good Friday homily this year, the preacher to the papal household warned the Church against division. He should have turned around and spoken to the greatest source of it, Pope Francis himself.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, anti-Christian violence, Catholic Church, lead, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican |
A papal charity says that at least two thirds of the world’s population live in countries where religious freedom is not upheld, and the most persecuted religious group are Christians.
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Washington D.C., Apr 20, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
An international human rights organization has declared that China’s actions in the province of Xinjiang amount to crimes against humanity.
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The Church of England is crumbling so quickly it may barely reach its 500th birthday, in 2034. This is not just my opinion—it’s the opinion of the church itself, which in the United States is known as the Episcopal Church and in Canada and elsewhere is typically known as the Anglican Church. Here in the […]
“We will never get [the pandemic] under control here in the United States until we get it under control everywhere,” said Sean Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services.
Read More“Those traveling to and from religious services are also exempt from the curfew, an exception clarified after the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement condemning officials for preventing prayer …
Read MoreArchbishop Bernard Hebda prayed that God would “send down His wisdom and prudence on the jurors, who have been given the weighty responsibility of deciding Mr. Chauvin’s guilt or innocence; that He would help us to receive the verdict with …
Read MoreThere are over 50 Catholic schools in Ontario’s Halton region (map).
Read More“It is no exaggeration to say the republic of Lebanon—as it was founded in 1920 and reconstituted at the turning points of 1943, 1958, and 1989—is falling apart,” according to the report. “The country’s ongoing economic crisis h…
Read MoreOne would “need a serious reason not to receive the vaccine,” the bishops’ Commission for Life, Family and Public Engagement said in its new document, “FAQS and Guidance for the Catholic community in Australia regarding a COVID…
Read MoreBishop Michael Hoeppner of Crookston, Minnesota, resigned, at the request of Pope Francis, after a Vatican investigation into charges that he had covered up sex-abuse complaints.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
There was once a thriving little town in Central Europe where almost everyone was Jewish and they all had a job. The single exception, it seems, was the Village Idiot who, when offered work, refused to take it. What was the job? It was to wait at the outskirts of the village for the arrival […]
WASHINGTON – Following the verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota today, Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, an…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – The National Institutes of Health announced last Friday that it is reversing limits on human fetal tissue research that were put in place by the Trump Administration. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman of the U…
Read MoreReading I Acts 7:51—8:1a
Stephen said to the people, the elders, and the scribes:
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,
you always oppose the Holy Spirit;
you are just like your ancestors.
Which of the prophets di…
“With faith, trust, and perseverance, we want to ask the God of life to help us overcome this pandemic, restore health to the sick, and give consolation to those who have lost loved ones,” said the bishops of the Central American nation of …
Read MoreThe Chaldean Patriarch’s comments follow the papal apostolic journey to Iraq in March.
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