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Hebei (map) is located in northeastern China. “The prohibition on contact with minors under the age of 18 suggests that the authorities are applying the New Religious Regulations, which prohibit the evangelization of minors,” AsiaNews repor…
Read MoreReceiving the Covid vaccination “is not a moral obligation, and therefore requiring it is clearly going too far,” said Joseph Meaney, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
Read MoreThe activists illegally entered a submarine base in Georgia.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Last week, Leila Lawler and Leila Miller co-authored an article for Crisis Magazine entitled Catholic Men, Rise Up and Fight. This exhortation is a Cri de Coeur from women who are sick of what’s going on in their Church, and they are begging men to address the problem. Here is one man’s response. Mesdames Lawler […]
WASHINGTON – Monsignor Kieran E. Harrington of the Diocese of Brooklyn, has been named the new national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. The appointment was made by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the E…
Read MoreReading I Acts 5:17-26
The high priest rose up and all his companions,
that is, the party of the Sadducees,
and, filled with jealousy,
laid hands upon the Apostles and put them in the public jail.
But during the night, the angel of th…
The word “crisis” “signifies a situation at the border that threatens to engulf our country in some major way,” added Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego. “That’s not true. That’s my reason for not using the wor…
Read MoreBishop Stephen Mamza of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State (map), said that the majority of displaced persons “who thronged our camp were Christians, but there was also a large number of Muslims among them. And if we were able to build houses for…
Read MoreOver 175,000 civilians have lost their lives in the Colombian conflict, which began in 1964. Five years after a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), “dissid…
Read MoreSister Carol Keehan, the retired president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, leads the health task force of the Vatican COVID-19 Commission. She said that the pandemic’s overarching failure “has been the inability for individuals…
Read MoreThe reported raids have taken place in Kachin State (map).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
The Paschal Triduum this year seemed like a return from exile: Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, in church; Good Friday’s Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion, in church; Saturday evening’s Easter Vigil, in […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis, Pope in Iraq |
Pope Francis has sent a letter to Iraqi Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako voicing thanks for his visit to Iraq last month and praising the local church for its charitable activities and its role in working to rebuild the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Catholic Church, lead, News, Secretariat of State, Vatican |
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, said that though it’s “legitimate” to speak of a decadence and decline of the West, he’s optimistic that the decline is not irreversible.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, Bishop Robert J. McElroy, Church in the US, Human trafficking, Immigration, lead, minors, News, U.S.-Mexico border |
When the priest of the lone Catholic parish in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Donna, Texas, considers the present situation at the border, his first concern is for the unaccompanied minors and whether or not they’re given proper protection and guidance.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Gerard Garrigan, O.S.B. […]
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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
“The God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory through Christ [Jesus] will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you after you have suffered a little.” 1 Peter 5:10 God doesn’t give us more than we can handle. Throughout my adult life, I have heard this cliché far more often than I […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In a culture all abuzz with the word “influence”—where we navigate the onslaught of messages coming at us from so many sources in the world at large—the home still holds the primary place of influence over every person’s life. It is good to consider what kind of influence is within and going out from one’s […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
The early Church is described in this way, “With great power the apostles bore witness to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus.” We are also told how they gave this witness to the risen Christ, “There was no needy person among them, for those who owned property or houses would sell them and bring the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | 2021, academic freedom, Catholic truth, Columns, News, Patrick Reilly's The Cardinal Newman Society, President Barack Obama at Notre Dame |
Patrick Reilly: A proper Catholic understanding of academic freedom is not moral relativism. It proposes freedom as a means to truth.
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