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WASHINGTON — Following the mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development issued the follo…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule to reverse “The Protect Life Rule,” a regulation issued by the Trump Administration in 2019 to clearly separate abortion from family planning in the fe…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that they will no longer be enforcing the “in-person dispensing requirement” for the chemical abortion pills during the remainder of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This requirement …
Read MoreReading I Acts 5:34-42
A Pharisee in the Sanhedrin named Gamaliel,
a teacher of the law, respected by all the people,
stood up, ordered the Apostles to be put outside for a short time,
and said to the Sanhedrin, “Fellow children of Is…
Priests celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Jan. 17, 2105. / Catholic Charities/Jeffrey Bruno (CC BY 2.0).
Boston, Mass., Apr 16, 2021 / 02:18 am (CNA).
This past week, the Archdiocese of Boston released its …
According to the report, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen said that his diocesan priests “will face no canonical consequence if they decide to bless gay and lesbian couples next month as part of the event called ‘Love wins, blessing ser…
Read MoreArchbishop Charles Scicluna, adjunct secretary of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, called for a universal application of the principle that “the victim has a right to be advised of the outcome of the investigation”; t…
Read More“I ask God to grant eternal rest to those who have died and to console the suffering hearts of their family members who were often unable to say good-bye to their loved ones,” Pope Francis said in a video message to the Brazilian bishops&rs…
Read More“The decline in the Catholic population in this land of Guadalupe is extremely worrying,” said Archbishop Franco Coppola. “From 2010 to 2020, the decline in the Catholic population has benefited atheists more than Protestants.”
Read More“This has become an ecumenical effort not by design, but by Providence,” said Catholic activist Dylan Corbett, a Catholic who works as executive director of the Hope Border Institute.
Read More“The Catholic and Protestant churches received combined state benefits of more than $650 million in 2020,” according to the report. “Most of the state payments date back to 1803, when German imperial princes received expropriated chur…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | Archdiocese of Boston, Boston, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, St. Peter, Vocations |
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the nation into lockdown restrictions last spring, Father Michael Zimmerman, like many people, took advantage of the extra time to work on a project that otherwise wouldn’t fit into his schedule. The goal was to create a resource, or guide, for men discerning the priesthood.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | Archdiocese of Boston, Boston, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, St. Peter, Vocations |
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the nation into lockdown restrictions last spring, Father Michael Zimmerman, like many people, took advantage of the extra time to work on a project that otherwise wouldn’t fit into his schedule. The goal was to create a resource, or guide, for men discerning the priesthood.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | lead, News, theft, Vatican, Vatican criminal justice, Vatican tribunal |
On Thursday the Vatican’s criminal tribunal held a hearing for the peculiar crime of shoplifting from one of the storage areas in the small city-state, with the defendant denying culpability due to his psychological state at the time.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | lead, News, theft, Vatican, Vatican criminal justice, Vatican tribunal |
On Thursday the Vatican’s criminal tribunal held a hearing for the peculiar crime of shoplifting from one of the storage areas in the small city-state, with the defendant denying culpability due to his psychological state at the time.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | Austen Ivereigh, Catholic Church, lead, Let us Dream, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis says to counter the growth of populism around the world it’s necessary for politicians to propose initiatives that are rooted in local communities and their values.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | Austen Ivereigh, Catholic Church, lead, Let us Dream, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis says to counter the growth of populism around the world it’s necessary for politicians to propose initiatives that are rooted in local communities and their values.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2021 | George Florian Walter, News, perpetual pilgrim, Pilgrim George, Pilgrimages, Saints, St. Benedict Joseph Labre, The 40 Thousand Mile Man, The Dispatch |
The experience of going on pilgrimage has long shaped the Catholic imagination. Indeed, the Second Vatican Council speaks of the Church as the Pilgrim People of God (cf. Lumen Gentium, 48-51), establishing an analogy with […]
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