Father Swamy tests positive for Covid (Vatican News)
India’s bishops have called for the release of Father Stan Swamy; the 84-year-old Jesuit was arrested in 2020 on charges of Maoist terrorism.
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India’s bishops have called for the release of Father Stan Swamy; the 84-year-old Jesuit was arrested in 2020 on charges of Maoist terrorism.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
It will soon be thirty years since the implosion of the Soviet Union. That liberating event took place on the last day of August in 1991, exactly twenty-one months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Will there be celebrations to mark the anniversary? Not if Europe and the West have grown so forgetful of […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON– Each year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) observes Religious Freedom Week. Beginning with the feast day of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, and including the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the week-long commemoration en…
Read MoreReading I Tb 3:1-11a, 16-17a
Grief-stricken in spirit, I, Tobit, groaned and wept aloud.
Then with sobs I began to pray:
“You are righteous, O Lord,
and all your deeds are just;
All your ways are mercy and truth;
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75% of Catholics in the southern Indian state (map) are are Dalits (once more commonly known as “untouchables”), but 16 out of 17 bishops are non-Dalit. “It seems that Church leaders continue to cherish this [caste] system,” sai…
Read MoreArchbishop Joseph Nguyen Nang of Ho Chi Minh City says the faithful have a duty to protect the community during the COVID-19 outbreak
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It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain vintage (like me) it is, was, and always will be “the Old […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Arlington, Memorial Day, Military chaplains, News |
At Arlington National Cemetery, Catholic chaplains have a special mission to provide last rites for those who gave their lives for their country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Arlington, Memorial Day, Military chaplains, News |
At Arlington National Cemetery, Catholic chaplains have a special mission to provide last rites for those who gave their lives for their country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | bioethics, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Congressman Chris Smith, embryonic stem cell research, News |
Lifting a long-standing prohibition on the ability of scientists to culture human embryos in the lab past 14 days shows “an utter disregard” for the value of human life and is “an affront to the sanctity of human life,” said two Catholic members of Congress, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | bioethics, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Congressman Chris Smith, embryonic stem cell research, News |
Lifting a long-standing prohibition on the ability of scientists to culture human embryos in the lab past 14 days shows “an utter disregard” for the value of human life and is “an affront to the sanctity of human life,” said two Catholic members of Congress, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, News, Obituary |
Joseph Latino, bishop emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, died Friday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the diocese said. He was 83.
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Joseph Latino, bishop emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, died Friday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the diocese said. He was 83.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Bishop David Konderla, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Tulsa, News, Oklahoma, Racial justice |
Ahead of a May 30 ecumenical prayer service to recall the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Bishop David A. Konderla said it was important “to pause and reflect on how such an unspeakable horror could take place so that we can avoid any such evil in our own day.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Bishop David Konderla, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Tulsa, News, Oklahoma, Racial justice |
Ahead of a May 30 ecumenical prayer service to recall the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Bishop David A. Konderla said it was important “to pause and reflect on how such an unspeakable horror could take place so that we can avoid any such evil in our own day.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Apologetics, Footprints of God DVD's, Holidays/Feast Days, News, Saints and Fathers |
Feast Day of St. Justin Martyr, June 1 Download a Free copy of the Apostolic Fathers Timeline This amazing Timeline drives home the point of how close these men were to Jesus and the Apostles. It demonstrates how Catholic the first Christians really were! The Apostolic Fathers faced Emperors, heretics and lions but these heroes of […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Athletica Vaticana, faith and sports, lead, News, Pope Francis, sports, Vatican |
ROME – What do a librarian in his late 60s, several monsignors, a nun, a survivor of modern-day slavery, and a pharmacist have in common? They are all members of Vatican Athletics, which will be participating in Saturday’s Games of the Small States of Europe. The games that will be
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Athletica Vaticana, faith and sports, lead, News, Pope Francis, sports, Vatican |
ROME – What do a librarian in his late 60s, several monsignors, a nun, a survivor of modern-day slavery, and a pharmacist have in common? They are all members of Vatican Athletics, which will be participating in Saturday’s Games of the Small States of Europe. The games that will be
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Patrick Morgan. …
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