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Reading ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in 2021
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Reading ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in 2021
Read MoreThe state of Gujarat (map), discussed in the article, is 88.6% Hindu, 9.7% Muslim, 1% Jain, and 0.5% Christian.
Read MoreIn its Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-Covid-19 Vaccines, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that “practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be vol…
Read MoreFather Adrian Egan of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Ballyfermot said that “flying the flag was part of the church’s efforts to make everyone in the community feel welcome and included,” in the words of the report.
Read MoreCatholic writer Shaun McAfee joins us to defend the Catholic use of sacramentals—holy water, crucifixes, blessings, etc. This practice looks a lot like magic to both our Protestant and secular friends. Do they have a point? Shaun draws from his new boo…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
The flag of Mali. / Railway fx via Shutterstock.
Bamako, Mali, Jun 23, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
A Catholic priest is among five people kidnapped on Monday in the West African nation of Mali.ACI Africa, CNA’s African news partner, reported that Fr….
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | abuse cover-up, Berlin, Catholic Church, Catholic Church (Germany), Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, News |
The Archdiocese of Berlin announced that it was temporarily suspending the work of its expert commission established to follow up on a legal report about sexual abuse in the archdiocese since 1946.
Read MoreOn June 23, Pope Francis began a new series of Wednesday general audiences devoted to St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Ad Hoc Commitee for Religious Liberty, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, US bishops, USCCB |
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Religious Freedom Week June 22-29 is an opportunity for Catholics across the country to take a “stand for the freedom on which this country was founded.”
Read MoreArchbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish bishops’ conference, pictured in Warsaw Feb. 12, 2020. / episkopat.pl.
Warsaw, Poland, Jun 23, 2021 / 03:30 am (CNA).
A Polish Catholic archbishop urged members of the European Parliament on …
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) recently made headlines in his attempt to redefine the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist. The senator claimed that some U.S. bishops are attempting to change what it means to receive Communion. The debate revolves around the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) plan to be more specific in outlining the […]
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is among the speakers at the summit, which will take place in Washington in July.
Read More“I extend a warm ‘welcome home’ to our parishioners, who have been starving spiritually during this pandemic,” wrote Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, who added that ushers and greeters “should never be used as ‘mask police…
Read More“This summer and fall, we have the best opportunity in a generation to make progress on core Catholic migration priorities,” 162 Catholic institutions, many of them religious orders, said in their letter to leading bishops in El Salvador, …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
You must admit, it’s incredible. Even in a Church that has two thousand years of history, it’s incredible. The Catholic Church in America, the Catholic bishops and all the laity, are being lectured to about Church teaching by a bunch of heretics. The bishops and priests of the Church are being chastised for even talking […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, DUP, Great Britain, News, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Fein, United Kingdom |
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party on Tuesday named veteran lawmaker Jeffrey Donaldson as its new leader, weeks after he narrowly lost the election to lead the senior partner in Northern Ireland’s government.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected an opportunity to vote on the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” (H.R.18) by a vote of 209 to 218. H.R.18 would apply the Hyde Amendment government-wide and permanently prohibit taxpaye…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on International Justice and Peace commended President Biden fo…
Read MoreReading I Gn 15:1-12, 17-18
The word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:
“Fear not, Abram!
I am your shield;
I will make your reward very great.”
But Abram said,
“O Lord GOD, what good will your gifts be,
if I…
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