Catholic Patriarch deplores sanctions against Syria (Fides)
Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, the EU, the Obama administration, and the Trump administration have enacted sanctions against Syria.
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Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, the EU, the Obama administration, and the Trump administration have enacted sanctions against Syria.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Archbishop Eamon Martin, Brexit, Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Ireland, lead, News, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, Republic of Ireland, the troubles, Troubles, United Kingdom |
Religious leaders in Ireland are calling on Irish, British, and Northern Irish politicians to renew their “commitment to peace, reconciliation and the protection of the most vulnerable” in the face of ongoing violence in Northern Ireland.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Clericalism, lead, News, priesthood, Priestly celibacy, Vatican, viri probati, Women Deacons |
A top Vatican official charged with organizing a major symposium on the priesthood next year has said the discussion will touch on several controversial hot-button issues such as priestly celibacy, the women’s diaconate, clericalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Angels, Bible, Books, Catholic Church, demons, Interviews, lead, News |
John Gillman spoke to Crux about his new book, “What Does the Bible Say About Angels and Demons?”
Read MoreOn Sunday, seven religious – two nuns and five priests – were kidnaped in Haiti and their captors are asking for a million dollars in ransom. In Venezuela, the bishops are urging the government to stop delaying the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, and in Ecuador, the bishops are asking the newly elected leadership to “govern wisely, legislate fairly and control with transparency.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Doubting Thomas, Faith & Spirituality, Faith Under Fire, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas |
Doubting Thomas & Our Lessons in Faith Poor St. Thomas! What he expected with trepidation on the journey to Jerusalem has come to pass. The Master has been killed, and he and the other disciples have retreated in fear for their own lives. For his part, Thomas withdraws also from the company of his fellow […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Divine Mercy, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Prayer |
The Second Sunday of Easter is Divine Mercy Sunday. Among the most important highlights in the Pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II was the end of April in the year 2000. This great modern saint accomplished two extraordinary feats on that same day. He carried out the first canonization of the new millennium, raising […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | 2021, Allegri’s Miserere, and a free society, birthdays, Boethius, chaste love, Chesterton, Christmas, Columns, Copernicus, Courtship, Dante, Elgar’s Dream, esteem for childhood, esteem for mothers in households, Flannery O'Connor, Georg Cantor, Leonardo, Mendel, Michael Pakaluk, Newman, News, Péguy, St Francis, st. therese, The Catholic Thing, the Milan Cathedral, the Pietà, the Sistine Chapel, the Summa, Thomas à Kempis, universities and hospitals, “Pied Beauty, “Silent Night |
Michael Pakaluk: Christian civilization superposes three dimensions: man as created, man as fallen, man as redeemed.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Dignity of Life, Easter, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, prophecy, Resurrection, Sophia Excerpts |
Resurrexit Sicut Dixit The Easter Antiphon, Regina Coeli, states that Christ “has risen, as He said.” This phrase is remarkable. It is one thing, however astounding, to maintain that Christ arose from the dead. But it is another thing to add that Christ rose just as “He said” He would. Lazarus, for instance, did not […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Commentary, News |
There is one group whose suffering the Argentinian pope has yet to acknowledge—the Chinese Christians, whose plight is getting worse…
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Read MoreI Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | In the News, News |
Increasing vocations to the priesthood, improving the way laypeople and priests work together, and ensuring that service, not power, motivates…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Seminarians of my acquaintance, many of whom had barely made their First Holy Communion in the waning years of the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | In the News, News |
A joint statement from the bishops of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo on April 6 announced that the Sunday and…
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Read MoreSt. Martin was born in Todi, Italy. He was elected pope in 649 during the period of the last Christological controversy. For his defense of Christ as true God and true man, he was exiled by the Byzantine emperor Constans II to Crimea where he died, bro…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
When my wife and I began dating, it wasn’t long before I realized I had finally, after many years, found someone I could be myself with. She was kind, warm, trustworthy, and generous in spirit. […]
Read MoreAn Italian magistrate has issued a warrant for the arrest of Gianluigi Torzi, a key figure in a Vatican real-estate scandal. Torzi was arrested by the Vatican last year and charged with fraud, but a British court last month said that the Vatican’…
Read MoreJimmy Lai, the Catholic journalist and democracy advocate who is jailed in Hong Kong, urged journalists to pursue the truth, in a message to the staff of the Apple Daily, which he published. “It is our responsibility as journalists to seek justic…
Read MoreBishop Michael Hoeppner of Crookston, Minnesota, has resigned, at the request of Pope Francis, after a Vatican investigation into charges that he had covered up sex-abuse complaints. Although the Vatican did not give any reason for his early resignatio…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Catholic news, Franciscan University of Steubenville, News, News Briefs, sex abuse, US |
The Portiuncula Chapel on the campus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. / Robert Pernett via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).
Tacna, Peru, Apr 12, 2021 / 19:08 pm (CNA).
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