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(Today, the penultimate day of May, would be the memorial of Saint Joan of Arc, and I thought readers would enjoy this address from Pope Benedict XVI on the remarkable teenage saint, put to death by her own Church – or, more to the point, corrupt representatives thereof in an unfair trial. A fitting saint[…]
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Read MorePope Francis speaks at the Sunday Angelus on May 30, 2021. / Vatican Media/CNA.
Vatican City, May 30, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).
On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Pope Francis said unity is essential to Christian life because God is a commu…
OTTAWA — As Canadians continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of what happens after the global community recovers from COVID’s impact remains unanswered.
Read MoreReading I Dt 4:32-34, 39-40
Moses said to the people:
“Ask now of the days of old, before your time,
ever since God created man upon the earth;
ask from one end of the sky to the other:
Did anything so great ever happen before?
Was it…
Posted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Commentary, Faith, lead, News, On Spirituality, Trinity, Trinity Sunday, Work |
It is a forgotten teaching that work is necessary for discipleship. It’s included within the way of the Lord.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Communications, lead, News, Paolo Ruffini, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Back in 2018, award-winning Italian journalist Paolo Ruffini broke a glass ceiling in the Vatican by becoming the first lay person to be named head of a Vatican dicastery. He was tapped to run the newly created department for communications, which brought together nine previously independent operations.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic Church (Germany), deficits, German synodal path, lead, Liturgy, News, News Analysis, Papacy, Summorum Pontificium, Vatican workers |
The stars have aligned to suggest that Pope Francis faces a series of agonizing choices. Each represents an object lesson in why it’s never easy being in charge, especially of a complex global institution with a following of 1.3 billion highly diverse people and expectations of being a moral exemplar.
Read MoreTwo creeds are in common use among us: the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, which we use on liturgical occasions, and is a propos especially on Trinity Sunday. A moment’s thought makes it clear that both are expanded versions of Our Lord’s command, “Going therefore, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Blessed Trinity, Catholic Church, Featured, God the Father, God the Son, Gospel, grace, Holy Spirit, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News, Scripture |
We are able to know certain eternal truths without the light of faith. According the Church for example, the greatest truth of all—God exists—is knowable from the light of human reason and the works of creation alone. But there exist truths that we can…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, COVID restrictions on Catholic Mass, Freedom of Religion, freedom of worship, John M. Grondelski, News, Religion is an “Essential Service”, The Catholic Thing |
John M. Grondelski: A lesson of pandemic lockdowns is that threats to religious freedom are growing and that every state should protect it.
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Read MoreThe fundamental dogma, on which everything in Christianity is based, is that of the Blessed Trinity in whose name all Christians are baptized. The feast of the Blessed Trinity needs to be understood and celebrated as a prolongation of the mysteries of …
Read MoreAs we are celebrating Trinity Sunday my mind and heart cannot not ruminate and contemplate the beauty of this outstanding mystery, the Holy Trinity, of which none plumb the depths, The Catechism of the Catholic Church is so right when it squarely tells us: The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption to sonship. (Rom. 8:15). ⧾ Each year, on the Sunday following the Solemnity of Pentecost we celebrate the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Archbishop Hebda, Cathedral of St. Paul, Local News, May 29, News, ordination to the priesthood |
Fran Laufle, a parishioner of St. John Newman in Eagan, lost her husband just two weeks ago, but she wasn’t going to miss the ordination Mass of her nephew, Father Brian Fischer, May 29, and six other men at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
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