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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, News, USCCB |
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration June 24 hailed a Supreme Court decision dismissing a lawsuit challenging a Trump-era immigration policy that kept asylum-seekers in Mexico, while he urged the end of another policy that keeps migrants out of the U.S.
Read MoreEthiopian and Eritrean troops are fighting against the regional government and local rebels in the Tigray War, which began in November 2020. Fionn Shiner of Aid to the Church in Need told Crux, “It has been reported widely that rape is being use…
Read MorePope Francis met on June 25 with representatives of the Lutheran World Federation, celebrating the 491st anniversary of the Augsberg Confession. The Pope remarked that at first the Augsberg Confession was “conceived as a document of intra-Catholi…
Read MoreThe Council of Cardinals held a meeting by internet links on June 25, with Pope Francis participating. A brief Vatican statement released after the meeting indicated that the prelates had discussed the impact of the Covid epidemic. The Pope, in turn, s…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, homophobia, Italy, lead, LGBTQ, Mario Draghi, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
In his interview with Vatican editorial director Andrea Tornielli, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin stressed that in the Holy See’s complaint, “in no way has it been asked to block the law.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Claretians, lead, Movie, Movies, News, Spain |
“Claret” is a new Spanish movie on St. Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Claretians.
Read MoreThe Vatican has announced detailed plans for a Day of Reflection and Prayer for Lebanon, to be held on July 1. The event will include ecumenical prayer services and discussions among the leaders of Christian communities in Lebanon. Among the participan…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Church in the US, Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Eucharist, General assembly, lead, News, USCCB, Vatican |
In a new column, Bishop Thomas Paprocki notes the importance of the U.S. Bishops’ vote to draft a document on the Eucharist as what’s needed to continue dialogue and mend the division among the nation’s prelates.
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Gallagher, the Secretary for Relations with States, told reporters that the Vatican has not commented on the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong because it a comment from Rome would not “make any difference whatever.” The archb…
Read MoreChicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has been named by Pope Francis to conduct a “visitation” of the dicastery for Integral Human Development. Cardinal Cupich has emerged as one of the Pope’s trusted advisers.
The visitation—…
Two retired Polish bishops have been disciplined by the Vatican after investigations showing they had neglected abuse reports. Bishop Stefan Regmunt, who retired from the Zielona Gora-Gorzow diocese in 2015 at the age of just 64, has been barred from p…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Best of Week, Church Fathers, Featured, Mary, News, Saints, St. Irenaeus |
The Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar celebrates St. Irenaeus of Lyons on June 28th. Born in 130, Irenaeus was a disciple of St. Polycarp, who was a disciple of St. John the Evangelist. This means that St. Irenaeus had a connection to the apostolic Church. He became the bishop of Lyons and was a noted theologian, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
St. Mark gives us a story within a story in this account of Jesus and two people for whom He worked miracles of healing. The story begins with a desperate father, Jairus. His daughter was gravely ill, to the point of death. Casting all propriety aside (he was, after all, a “synagogue official”), he fell at Jesus’ feet […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Between the Sundays, calumny, detraction, Featured, gossip, judging, judgment, Living the Faith, News, rash judgment, sin |
“Through our words, we can wound reputations in a matter of seconds, and the damage can irreparable.” Days later, the Gospel from Mass on Monday is still echoing in my ears and heart. It is a familiar image from the Sermon on the Mount, but…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In the days when states were still “The Colonies” and men wore powdered wigs, a new way of thinking captured the intelligentsia of the western world. The reasoning that came to prevail went something like this: “The miracle stories in the Bible and the lives of the saints may be quaint, entertaining, and even have […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, 2021, Anti-Racism: Original Sin Repackaged, civil rights, Columns, critical race theory, David Carlin, Jesus Christ, Lyndon Johnson, News, Richard Nixon, The Catholic Thing, tolerance |
David Carlin: Systemic racism asserts a mythic Original Sin. The truth is the original Original Sin persists and requires our only Redeemer.
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