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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Associated Press, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, France, French Catholics, News, President Emmanuel Macron |
Two years after a fire tore through Paris’s most famous cathedral and shocked the world, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday visited the building site that Notre Dame has become to show that French heritage has not been forgotten despite the coronavirus.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Archdiocesan Catholic Center, Church of St. Pascal Baylon, Holy little terror, News, Only Jesus |
Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a land not too far away — about seven miles from the Archdiocesan Catholic Center — I made my first Communion at the Church of St. Pascal Baylon on the East Side of St. Paul.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | News, Solamente Jesus, Un pequeño terror santo |
Érase una vez, hace mucho tiempo, en una tierra no muy lejana, a unas siete millas del Centro Católico Arquidiocesano, hice mi Primera Comunión en la Iglesia de St. Pascal Baylon en el East Side de St. Paul.
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Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s video message to Climate Adaptation Summit Jan. 25, 2021. YouTube Screenshot.
Vatican City, Apr 15, 2021 / 08:08 am (CNA).
The Vatican’s secretary of state on Thursday encouraged nations to pursue arms control and nuclear disarmament as a means to promote peace and fraternity among all people.
In a video message for an online event on fraternity, multilateralism, and peace April 15, Cardinal Pietro Parolin stated that “it is not rhetorical to say that war is the antithesis of fraternity.”
He said the Holy See strongly encourages States to work toward lasting agreements on disarmament and arms control.
“If the affirmation that we are all brothers and sisters is valid, how can nuclear deterrence be the basis of an ethic of fraternity and peaceful coexistence among peoples?” Parolin stated.
The high-level online event was co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Order of Malta to the United Nations, the International Catholic Migration Commission, the Pontifical Lateran University, the Caritas in Veritate Foundation and the Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs.
Other speakers during the online meeting included heads of UN agencies and international organizations, and Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Cardinal Parolin said in his address at the opening of the event that “the huge sums of money and human resources allocated to armaments make us reflect.”
“The disproportion between material resources and human talents dedicated to the service of death and the resources dedicated to the service of life is a cause for scandal,” he said.
Parolin referenced Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical Fratelli tutti, which is about human fraternity.
“To fully understand the concept of fraternity and its declination in the multilateral diplomatic action of the Holy See, it may be useful to go back to the start of Pope Francis’s pontificate,” he said.
“It will be remembered that fraternity is the first theme to which the pope referred on the day of his election, more than eight years ago, when he expressed this desire: ‘Let us always pray for one another. Let us pray for the whole world, that there may be a great spirit of fraternity.’”
According to Parolin, “all the subsequent actions and activities of the Pontificate were a natural and coherent consequence of a path oriented towards this.”
“In multilateral action, fraternity translates into the courage and generosity to freely establish certain common objectives and to ensure the fulfillment throughout the world of some essential norms, by virtue of the Latin phrase pacta sunt servanda,” he continued.
“Today, unfortunately, there is an urgent need to strengthen the dissemination and promotion of respect for humanitarian law,” the cardinal said, explaining that humanitarian law aims to safeguard “essential principles of humanity” in the context of war, which is “inhumane and dehumanizing.”
Humanitarian laws do this, he said, by “protecting the civilian population and banning weapons which inflict suffering as atrocious as it is useless.”
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Gay Catholics, German bishops, German Church, Germany, lead, LGBT Catholics, News, Same-sex "Marriage" |
Continuing to openly challenge the Vatican, several Catholic leaders in Germany are openly supporting the blessing of same-sex couples, with a massive blessing service scheduled for May 10, in direct opposition to Rome’s chief doctrinal office.
Read MoreCanada’s bishops are calling on Catholics to continue to push back against the “culture of death” even as efforts to block the expansion of euthanasia in Canada have so far failed.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Cultural Chaos, Homosexuality, News |
How do I defend the Catholic Faith on issues such as abortion, same sex marriage or LGBT when some claim it’s acceptable because Jesus never mentioned those particular issues by name? First, silence does not imply consent. We have very FEW words of Jesus over his 3 years of ministry. He is “silent” on a […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Cultural Chaos, Moral/Sexual Issues, News |
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Read MoreThroughout my priestly ministry, I have always heavily preached the importance of frequent confession. In my homiletics, I stress the spiritual goods of the sacrament and their effects on our souls. Regrettably, many of the faithful dismiss the invitat…
Read More“The Vatican urges everyone concerned for the sanctity of life to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion,” the US bishops’ conference states. “…
Read MoreCardinal Philippe Barbarin was Archbishop of Lyon from 2002 until his 2020 resignation. He had been pressed to resign because of charges that he covered up abuse—charges that the court has now rejected.
Read MoreThe state’s constitution “has been used to prevent religious and independent schools in South Carolina from having access to federal funds meant for COVID-19 relief,” according to the report. Bishop Robert Guglielmone of Charleston sa…
Read MoreSr. Victoria Kovalchuk with a refugee girl in Athens, Greece in April 2021. / Alexey Gotovsky/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Sr. Victoria Kovalchuk wanted to be a missionary in South America, but God had other plans for the C…
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Washington D.C., Apr 15, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Members of the House are once again trying to bring up a vote on legislation protecting infant survivors of abortions.On Wednesday, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) filed a discharg…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
On Monday 15 April 1912 the RMS Titanic sank in the deep waters of the North Atlantic taking with her more than 1,500 lives. Among the victims there is the unsung hero Father Thomas Byles. As history goes Father Thomas Roussel Byles was among the 2,207 passengers that were on board the RMS Titanic. The 42-year-old[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Several decades ago, in The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff contended that, in the West, the religious worldview that was concerned with personal salvation in God had been eclipsed by the therapeutic culture. The primary goal of this new, dominant culture is for the individual to feel good because there is “nothing at stake […]
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