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Posted by bcadmin | May 31, 2021 | Editor's Corner, News |
A blessed feast of the Visitation, to all our readers, wherein we recall the meeting of four chosen souls: Our Lady, Saint Elizabeth, and their respective yet-to-born children, the newly-conceived Son of the Most High, and Saint John the Baptist, six months along. Quite the event, if hidden from the world’s eyes. The commemoration of[…]
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Read MoreDo you know when the books of the Bible were made official? Do you know which pope confronted Attila the Hun? Do you know when the dogma of “transubstantiation” was defined? Test your knowledge with this quiz from The Bible and the Church Fathers!
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Beijing, China, May 31, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The Chinese government announced Monday that couples can have up to three children amid a sharp fall in the country’s birth rate. The May 31 announcement, described as a m…
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds in London, England, May 6, 2021. / Ilyas Tayfun Salci via Shutterstock.
London, England, May 31, 2021 / 05:20 am (CNA).
Church authorities said that “all necessary steps were taken, in both church and civil law,”…
The southeastern African nation of 21.2 million (map) is 48% Protestant, 33% Catholic, 13% Muslim, and 5% ethnic religionist.
Read MoreAlthough Johnson is twice divorced and had been living with his fiancée, Carrie Symonds, a spokesman for the Westminster archdiocese said that “all necessary steps were taken, in church and civil law” to allow for the church service. B…
Read MoreArchbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver has responded to the “synodal path” of the German bishops’ conference with a 15-page critique.
Read MoreArchbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services. / EWTN News In Depth
Washington D.C., May 31, 2021 / 05:01 am (CNA).
The archbishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services says that the military is the “larges…
Tim Staples returns to Focus with a question taken from his School of Apologetics course “Evidence for the Church“: Did Jesus really give his authority to a human institution?
Cy Kellett:
Did Jesus found a church to have his authority and …
Posted by bcadmin | May 31, 2021 | Featured Highlights, News |
(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II’s first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope, in 1979. A different era, but his words speak to our time – John Paul was the the Pope chosen to lead us into the third millennium, and to guide our[…]
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Read MoreFrancis recently accepted (in principle) an invitation to visit a foreign country, but told the head of state there could be another pope by the time the trip takes place
Read MoreApostolic visitation in early June to look into how officials in Germany’s largest diocese, including Cardinal Woelki, may have mishandled clergy sex abuse cases
Read MoreCardinal Sim was the first cardinal from Brunei (map), where Islam is the official religion; the Pontiff recalled his “faithful witness to the Gospel.” Cardinal Sim’s death leaves 222 living cardinals, 125 of whom are under 80 and th…
Read MoreEdward Pentin, the Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Register, contrasts the approach taken to Vatican Radio by Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, with that of his predecessor, Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò.
Read MoreThe West African nation of 19.6 million (map) is 89% Muslim, with 9% adhering to ethnic religions.
Read MoreIn a particularly personal tribute, Pope Francis recalled his meetings with Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, who died at 86. “We commend the soul of this our brother to the Mercy of God, to whose throne, we are sure, he is accompanied by the interces…
Read More“The priests were pioneers in the most remote missions in the Kingdom of God,” said Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. “The loss of such zealous missionaries is a great loss for the Church, for society, and for the country….
Read More“I seriously think there were people who covered up (cases) with bad intentions,” said Archbishop Franco Coppola. “I want to think there were also people who covered up (cases) without realizing the seriousness of it.”
Read MoreThe Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path was founded in the late 1960s.
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