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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Anglican Church, Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland, Church of England, faith and politics, Great Britain, News, Orthodox Church, Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom |
Churches in Britain held services Sunday to remember Prince Philip as people of many religions reflected on a man whose gruff exterior hid a strong personal faith and deep curiosity about others’ beliefs.
Read MoreReading I Acts 4:23-31
After their release Peter and John went back to their own people
and reported what the chief priests and elders had told them.
And when they heard it,
they raised their voices to God with one accord
and said, “S…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | News, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction |
Among my favorite smells of spring-going-on-summer is a charcoal fire. The scent summons me back to childhood summers when, draped in damp towels after swimming, we would gather after sunset around a charcoal fire at the town park. I loved to watch the fire begin—the flames flying upward then settling to a soft red glow. […]
During this phase, “bishops are inviting submissions to reflect on what methods/models to adopt in these coming two years of conversations.” The National Synodal Assembly will take place within the next five years.
Read MoreIn November 2019—four months before the Covid lockdowns—Pope Francis announced he would visit the nation in 2020.
Read MoreCardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, is Undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Read MoreBishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto said that the government has a “deficit of empathy” for the victims of the jihadist terrorist organization Boko Haram.
Read More“This is not just a question of technique or mere solidarity, important though that is, but a question of justice,” said Father Augusto Zampini, a commission board member. “It is a question of intergenerational justice, because we can…
Read More“For more than two decades, the east of our country (map) has been devastated by armed conflicts and recurrent insecurity that cause death, desolation and displacement of populations,” the nation’s leading bishops said in their appeal.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Archbishop John Wilson, Archdiocese of Southwark, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, COVID-19 pandemic, Good Friday, Great Britain, lead, London, News, United Kingdom |
Catholic officials and members of London’s Metropolitan Police Service pledged to “move forward in friendship” after a controversial forced ending of the Good Friday service at Christ the King Polish Catholic Church in the capital.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | big tech, Centre for Child Protection, Child abuse, child protection, digital culture, Father Hans Zollner, Harvard University, lead, News, Vatican |
A leading expert in child protection has said that as the world goes increasingly digital and the prevalence of online child sexual abuse expands, major tech companies are not doing enough to impose safety measures.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Books, Catholic Church, clerical sexual abuse, France, Interviews, lay movements, lead, new movements, News, Sexual abuse |
In 2017, the man who leads the Vatican’s office for religious congregations acknowledged in an interview that some 70 “new movements” were under investigation for the abusive behavior of their founders.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Cabo Delgado, Catholic Church, Interviews, lead, Mozambique, News |
Mozambique is experiencing a growing insurgency that is causing “truly indescribable” horror, according to a leading Catholic charity.
Read MoreRichard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Evangelization, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, mission, News, The Facts of Life |
The Facts of Life Series: Witnesses and Evangelists In the early years after Jesus’ Resurrection and the establishment of the Church, God sent His selected disciples out to enlighten the known world and to preserve it. St. Paul comes to mind as does St. Peter. He called them and others to go far from home to share […]
Intellectual confusion resembling a smog of the mind has been a deadening presence in Catholicism in the years since Vatican Council II. But here and there amid the swirling mists of bad arguments and lame analogies, a small yet significant body of Catholic intellectuals has stood firm in defense of clear thinking and good sense. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | 1496, 2021, Adoration of the Magi, Brad Miner, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, fresco means fresh, Judas' betrayal, Leonardo’s “Last Supper”, Ludovico Sforza, Mona Lisa, News, The Catholic Thing |
Brad Miner on what some have called the World’s Greatest Painting. It’s an extraordinary work that captures a moment of prophetic discord.
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We live in times in which mercy, like so many other things, has become a detached concept in people’s minds,…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | In the News, News |
The consort and husband of Queen Elizabeth II died on Friday. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster led Catholics of England…
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Read MoreThey are assembled, astonished and disturbed round him, who like a sage resolved his fate, and now leaves those to…
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