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Simple facts can often be significant . . . and often unadverted to. Consider the Last Supper. Obviously, the Apostles had to be present in order to participate in it. Wonderful as it was, it would have been of no benefit to Peter if he had decided not to attend. And yet, this trivial observation[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
One of the most beautiful ways that the Holy Spirit teaches me to think about the Eucharist is that of pondering upon its immense spiritual richness. This thought makes perfect sense because the Eucharist, the Sacrament of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, instructs us by its very presence how we should be[…]
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Read MoreReading I Ex 24:3-8
When Moses came to the people
and related all the words and ordinances of the LORD,
they all answered with one voice,
“We will do everything that the LORD has told us.”
Moses then wrote down all the words of the LO…
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Cardinal Bernard Law, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Cardinals, clerical sexual abuse, Congregation for Bishops, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, lead, Munich, News, News Analysis |
Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has not resigned, because in the Catholic system bishops don’t get to resign of their own accord. They can submit their resignation to the pope – in fact, they’re required to do so at the age of 75 – but it’s always up to the pope whether to accept.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Faith, Jansenism, lead, News, News Analysis, On Spirituality, Sacred Heart of Jesus |
As the Sacred Heart is proposed to the minds and hearts of the human family this month, it’s worth knowing more about the context of the apparitions and how they can encourage and help us today.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Bishop Georg Bätzing, Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, Father Hans Zollner, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, lead, Munich, News |
Abuse scandals have exposed “systemic weaknesses in the church that also call for systemic responses. A purely legal review and administrative changes are not enough,” said Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, noting that Marx’s decision was a “personal response” to the failures of the past.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
When my youngest brother was born, the hospital signed him up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program in which children receive free books in the mail from birth until age five. This is a […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Apologetics Corner, Calvary, Corpus Christi, Doctrine, dogma, Eucharist, Faith, Featured, Holy Mass, Into the Deep, Liturgy & Sacraments, Love, News, Real Presence, sacrifice, service, Sursum corda, Transubstantiation, Works of Mercy |
The Altar of Sacrifice of the Old Covenant The passage from Exodus used for today’s first reading recounts the sealing of the Old Covenant mediated by Moses between God and Israel. The blood of the offering sprinkled upon the altar (representing God) a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholicism and the Gospel, Columns, consubstantial with the Father, Father, Fr. Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap., God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Lord and the giver of life, News, Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, Salvation in Christ's Catholic Church, The Catholic Thing, Trinity |
Thomas G. Weinandy: More than ever, we must – particularly bishops and priests – vigorously proclaim the mysteries of faith.
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Read MoreWhile they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the coven…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Castel Gandolfo, Catholic Church, COVID restrictions, News, Vatican, Vatican gardens |
As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in Italy, thousands of people are heading to see the extensive gardens and apartments at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo in the Alban Hills near Rome.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Canada, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Justin Trudeau, News |
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he is “deeply disappointed” the Catholic Church has not offered a formal apology and made amends for its role in Canada’s former system of church-run Indigenous boarding schools after the remains of 215 children were located at what was once the country’s largest such institution.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Diocese of La Crosse, News, Wisconsin |
Father James Altman calls himself “a lowly priest” serving a blue-collar city in western Wisconsin. But when his bishop demanded his resignation – after a series of divisive remarks about politics and the pandemic – Altman refused to oblige and has since raised more than $640,000 from his conservative supporters to defend himself.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic pilgrimages, Church in Europe, News, Santiago, Spain |
Committing to the pilgrim’s path has for centuries been a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives on hold and spend days, weeks or even months crossing Spain along the Camino de Santiago, a journey that takes hikers to the reported burial place of the apostle St. James.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, diocese of Belleville, Illinois, News |
Immaculate Conception school principal Michael Kish is retiring after 50 years of being an educator.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Burkina Faso, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, News, Terrorism |
Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in years.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Cardinal Joseph Zen, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, China, Chinese bishops, Chinese Catholics, Church in Asia, Congressman Chris Smith, Hong Kong, News |
The Chinese government in Beijing again banned an annual candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre because the Communist Party “cannot tolerate the truth of its actions in 1989 being recognized anywhere,” said the head of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong.
Read MoreThe Christian Churches should not be the only religious institutions that are confronted with their role in perpetuating slavery
Read MoreGospel reflection for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Our Lord (Mk 14, 12-16.22-26)
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