Five top-5 lists drawn from the Vatican’s Statistical Yearbook
The countries in the world with the most people baptized Catholics continue to be, in order: Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States and Italy.
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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 10, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Statistical Yearbook of the Church, Vatican |
The countries in the world with the most people baptized Catholics continue to be, in order: Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States and Italy.
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The Catholic bishop of Belfast urged politicians to be more careful about their language as the city was engulfed in nightly violence.
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Young people have hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and set hijacked cars and a bus on fire during a week of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland. Police responded with rubber bullets and water cannons.
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Pope Francis has offered Queen Elizabeth II “heartfelt condolences” for the loss of her husband and praised the late Prince Philip for his devotion to marriage and “distinguished record” of public service.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 10, 2021 | Associated Press, California, Church in the US, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, U.S. Supreme Court, worship |
The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.
Read MorePope Francis prays with journalists on the papal flight en route to South Korea, August 14, 2014. / Alan Holdren/CNA
Vatican City, Apr 10, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Saturday expressed his sorrow at the death of Pri…
Three-quarters of Canadians say their country should sign the UN nuclear weapons ban treaty even if the United States and NATO oppose it.
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Sophocles is probably the greatest dramatist in the history of civilization, with the obvious exception of Shakespeare. He lived for ninety years, his life spanning almost the entirety of the fifth century B.C., from 496 to 406. During his long life, which seems to have been spent entirely in Athens, he witnessed both the rise […]
Cardinal Angelo Becciu.
Vatican City, Apr 10, 2021 / 03:03 am (CNA).
Pope Francis’ private visit to Cardinal Angelo Becciu on Holy Thursday set off speculation about whether the pope is attempting to rehabilitate the disgraced …
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The earth shook, and the rocks were split; the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. —Matthew 27:51-53 West was a materialist, believing in no soul and attributing all […]
Reading I Acts 4:13-21
Observing the boldness of Peter and John
and perceiving them to be uneducated, ordinary men,
the leaders, elders, and scribes were amazed,
and they recognized them as the companions of Jesus.
Then when they saw …
A personal memory of a day spent at the renown theologian’s Tübingen home on the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council
Read MoreObjection 1. It seems there is a moral obligation, for one is obligated to care for one’s own body and to care likewise for the body of the neighbor, who by divine command is to […]
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On the 100th birthday of his priest abuser, Mark J. Williams visited his abuser’s gravesite and “let it go.” He forgave the man for the pain he had caused.
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Catholic organizations are trying to pressure Brazil’s government to do more to protect the South American country’s environment, especially in its Amazon region.
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Anthony Esolen: Sin makes the sinner a cripple. The principles of sin do more: they cripple a whole people. They cramp the spirit.
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Read More“Lastly, He showed himself to the Eleven themselves while they were at table. He reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy…. And He said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation'” (Mark 16: 14-15).
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