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Reading I Acts 9:26-31
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples,
but they were all afraid of him,
not believing that he was a disciple.
Then Barnabas took charge of him and brought him to the apostles,
and he repo…
Posted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | Bishop accountability, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Clericalism, Financial reform, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Reform, Vatican criminal justice, Vatican tribunals |
Before getting terribly excited about Pope Francis’s latest legal move to enforce accountability at the highest levels, there are at least three reasons to take a “wait and see” attitude.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | Commentary, Faith, lead, Mary, May, News, On Spirituality, St. Joseph |
How are we to find peace in the midst of a changing world? In her liturgical year, the Church provides us with two power-punch answers, namely, the witness and intercession of Mary and Joseph.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | Abortion, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Church in the US, Communion, lead, News, President Joe Biden, USCCB |
In a new letter, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone became the latest American prelate to advocate for barring public figures who support abortion from communion, as the debate on the topic continues to grow ever since President Joe Biden took office.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | abide, branches, discipleship, Faith, Featured, God, Holy Spirit, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Love, News, obedience, Scripture, Vine |
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | 2021, assisted-living residents, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dr. Elizabeth A. Mitchell, Eucharist, His Life overcomes Death, His Victory is already won, Holy Communion, News, Prince Prospero Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, The Body of Christ, The Catholic Thing, We Know Not the Hour |
Elizabeth A. Mitchell: For a year, residents of an assisted-living community were bereft of the Eucharist. On Good Friday, Christ came.
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Read More"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you" (Jer 1:5). A young Jeremiah heard the Lord speak these words to him over 2500 years ago. In these times in which we a…
Read MoreI am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them in…
Read MoreI read recently a comparison between early Christians relegated to Mass in the catacombs, and modern Catholics relegated to Mass on the Ethernet (Internet?). It made me wonder: There may be some similarity, but the analogy is quite a limited one, and in fact, like most analogies, they are more different than alike. For some,[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. (Jn. 15:4). In today’s Gospel reading, Our Lord speaks of the reality of our union with Him as a mutual indwelling (perichoresis). ‘Abide in[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 2, 2021 | Child sexual abuse, Died, Joseph Wajda, Local News, News |
A laicized priest, removed from public ministry in 2003 and dismissed from the clerical state in 2016 for substantiated child sexual abuse accusations, died April 29. Joseph Wajda was 74.
Read MoreThe interior of the fire-damaged Mission San Gabriel April 19, 2021, after new steel beams were installed to begin construction of a new roof. / Victor Alemán
Los Angeles, Calif., May 1, 2021 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Nine months after a mysterious…
Posted by bcadmin | May 1, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
San Francisco, Calif., May 1, 2021 / 10:05 am (CNA). The Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore J. Cordileone, released on May 1, 2021 a pastoral letter about the worthiness required for the reception of Holy […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Equality Act, LGBT, News, President Joe Biden, Transgender, USCCB |
With President Joe Biden now proposing several ultra-expensive infrastructure, education and family-related bills, the president’s controversial Equality Act may get a slower hearing in the U.S. Senate.
Read MoreBishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux. / Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux.
Denver Newsroom, May 1, 2021 / 13:01 pm (CNA).
A Louisiana bishop has lifted mask requirements for Mass in several of the state’s cities, but he still encouraged parishioners…
Posted by bcadmin | May 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, News, Pope Francis, St. Joseph, Vatican |
Updating the Litany of St. Joseph, approved in 1909, the Vatican has added seven invocations, including two that address the guardian of Jesus and husband of Mary as “support in difficulty” and “patron of refugees.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, Pope Francis, rosary, Vatican |
Under the gaze of a seventh-century icon of Mary, Pope Francis launched a monthlong, global recitation of the rosary, pleading for Mary’s intercession for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 1, 2021 | Asia Bibi, Associated Press, blasphemy laws, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, European Parliament, News, Pakistan, Religious Freedom |
Pakistan on Friday decried a move by the European Parliament, which a day earlier adopted a resolution demanding Islamabad allow freedom for religious minorities and asked the EU to reconsider the South Asian country’s preferential trade status.
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