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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | citizenship, Featured, News, Opinion, Politics, society, The Facts of Life |
The Facts of Life Series: Society, Politics and Citizenship How strikingly odd are our times? And, how startlingly wrong are our ideas? Just think for a minute about our modern Western world. Think how far the West has progressed in our mastery over our physical needs and limitations. Our overall knowledge base has expanded remarkably over the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Gabriel Marcel once characterized his philosophy as “a persistent, unceasing fight against the spirit of abstraction.” A Catholic convert, Marcel gave a central place in his philosophy to the notion that man is an incarnate being (être incarné). Human beings do not have bodies; they are bodies. “Incarnation,” he proclaimed in Being and Having, “is […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | 2021, and Destiny, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charlie Rangel, Columns, Culture, Evelyn Waugh, Garcia Marquez, God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity, Graham Greene, Gregory Wolfe and Lisa Lickona, Jesus Christ, John Paul II, Lorenzo Albacete, News, president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, The Relevance of the Stars: Christ |
Robert Royal on an essay collection by the late Msgr. Albacete that addresses modern science, current theology, and intellectual limits..
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | authenticity, Daily Quote, fidelity, Fr. Thomas Dubay, genuineness, honesty, News, reliability, trustworthiness |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “The human person is authentic to the extent that he lives the truth. He conforms his mind, words, actions to what is. His mind reflects reality, and his speech reflects his mind. Synonyms therefore are: hon…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | Commentary, News |
The Lord confirms His resurrection through the teaching authority of the Church, confirms the apostles in its truth, clarifies their…
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In the late evening of his life, Ratzinger/Benedict can be understood as the Catholic Church’s singular, multi-generational response to the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | In the News, News |
In his Regina Coeli address Sunday, Pope Francis applauded the beatification of six Cistercian monks who were martyred while trying…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | In the News, News |
While other European countries increase spending to support their pandemic-ravaged economies, the Vatican has been forced into a painful austerity…
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Read MoreOn April 14, 2021 America Magazine, as part of its ongoing “Conversations” in America Media, published an article I wrote entitled: “For the church to live in eucharistic coherence, we must be willing to challenge […]
Read MoreO Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest, Sole knowest thyself, and, known unto thyself And knowing, lovest and smilest…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | Encountering the Word, Jesus Christ, New Life in Christ, New Testament, News, Resurrection, Romans, Scripture |
Encountering the Word — Your Daily Bible Verses For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So yo…
Read MoreHistorically today is the feast of St. Apollonius, the Apologist, a martyr whose Apologia, or defense of the faith, is called one of the most priceless documents of the early Church. Apollonius was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by on…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Whatever our present state in life might be, the key is that we accept and understand that our real purpose in life is to be God-centered rather than self-centered.”— Mother Angelica, Mother Angelica’s Answers, Not Promises
Read MoreThe Vatican is likely to declare the “heroic virtue” of Robert Schuman, a key figure in the founding of the European Union, moving him a step closer to beatification. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Congregation for the Cause…
Read MoreArchbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, has protested the country’s “draconian” ban on the public celebration of Mass. The archbishop charged that the regulations were developed “in a clandestine manner,&r…
Read MoreIslamic State terrorists have released a video of the killing of Nabil Habashi Khadim, a Coptic Orthodox man who had been kidnapped last November. The terrorists said that he had been “executed” for contributing to the building of a Christi…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | Evangelization, Mass, News, The Dispatch |
It’s time to get back to Mass! Really? Why? The calls, framed with just a bit of anxiety, are beginning to come, aren’t they? This is Cardinal Dolan’s, but perhaps you’ve seen them in your own part […]
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