Christian, Muslim leaders recall Pope’s journey to Iraq (Vatican News)
Pope Francis made his apostolic journey to Iraq in March.
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Pope Francis made his apostolic journey to Iraq in March.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
H.W. “Harry” Crocker III has taken it upon himself to resurrect the reputation of George Armstrong Custer, perhaps the most politically incorrect man who ever lived. Custer was the Army officer who, surrounded by whooping Injuns, lost his scalp at Little Bighorn. Except, to Crocker’s telling, Custer lost nothing that day on Little Bighorn, not […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, Dalit Christians, Dalits, India, lead, News |
Catholic activists in India are upset that a non-Dalit has been appointed to be bishop of Salem in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Read MoreReading I Tb 11:5-17
Anna sat watching the road by which her son was to come.
When she saw him coming, she exclaimed to his father,
“Tobit, your son is coming, and the man who traveled with him!”
Raphael said to Tobiah before he reac…
Read MoreWith President Jovenel Moïse clinging to power, a constitutional referendum will take place on June 27.
Read MoreThe East African nation of 53.5 million (map) is 61% Protestant, 21% Catholic, 8% Muslim, and 8% ethnic religionist. The bishops protested the lockdown of churches and strongly encouraged vaccination.
Read MoreCardinal Joseph Zen celebrated a memorial Mass for victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, the 22nd anniversary of the killings, in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park. The cardinal said that “our prayer is also for the Lord to lead rules…
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, delivered a video address on June 4 to a special session of the UN General Assembly on corruption. The Vatican official called for a “culture of integrity…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Apostolic Nuncio, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Cyprus, Holy See diplomacy, Israel, News, Palestine, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
Pope Francis named Archbishop Adolfo Yllana to be apostolic nuncio to Israel and to Cyprus and apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Eric Voegelin, Features, LGBTQ, News, Opinion, President Joe Biden, Transgender |
President Joseph Biden issued his Pride Month declaration on June 1. The so-called struggle for “ LGBTQ+ rights” in America is actually the story of the enforcement of the rationalizations of the various moral and […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Church in Oceania, freedom of the press, News |
A judge on Friday ordered a dozen Australian media companies to pay fines from 1,000 Australian dollars ($766) to AU$450,000 ($345,000) for breaching a gag order by publishing references to Cardinal George Pell’s since-overturned convictions in 2018 for child sexual abuse.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Italian politics, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, Medjugorje, News, News Analysis, Our Lady of Fatima, Populism, rosary, Traditionalists, Virgin Mary |
Over the centuries, no figure in Catholic life has inspired a more motley galaxy of populists, insurrectionists, anti-establishment firebrands and cultural warriors than the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Chile, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Same-sex "Marriage" |
Chile’s president surprised friends and foes on Wednesday, when during his last remarks to Congress before his coalition government ends in March 2022, he asked legislators to treat with “urgency” a project to legalize gay marriage.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | 9/11, 9/11 Museum and Memorial, Church in the US, Greek Orthodox, lead, News, St Nicholas |
With less than a year left in the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine that was destroyed on September 11, 2001, Michael Psaros foresees a church that further honors the lives that were lost.
Read MoreWhen you focus on the negative realities in your own part of the world, think in terms of love. Not despair, not anger, not revenge, not bitterness.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
We recently celebrated Pentecost, the feast that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit onto Jesus’ followers after he ascended into heaven. It is one of the most important events in all of salvation history, but it is not always easy to see what relevance it has for us today. It can easily seem like […]
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Soon, we will return liturgically to the relative “quiet” of Ordinary Time, after so many celebrations of great historical events in Jesus’ life. Today, we pause to look back at the Last Supper. Why? During Holy Week, our meditation of the Last Supper was an anticipation of something that lay ahead. Jesus offered the death He was about […]
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David Warren writes that he was waiting for something to happen, as though running out the clock – usually done when you think you’ve won.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Best of Week, exorcism, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, Spiritual Warfare |
In the New Testament the chief adversary is identified with the Devil (1 Pet. 5:8: “your adversary the Devil”) and with the “great dragon and ancient serpent” that was expelled from Heaven, took refuge on earth (Luke 10:18; Rev. 12:9; 20:2), tempted Jesus Christ (Matt. 4:1–10), and is still tempting man (Acts 5:3; 1 Cor. […]
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