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“Demographic and economic experts say aggressive moves are needed to slow China’s drop in births,” according to the report. “The country’s population is expected to fall from the current 1.41 billion to roughly 730 million…
Read More“I extend my sincere apology for the involvement of the Catholic Church in the residential school system, and I pray for healing as the church in Canada walks the path of reconciliation with the indigenous people in our community,” said Arc…
Read MoreOn June 25, Secretary of State Antony Blinken “will meet with senior Holy See officials to underscore our shared commitment to freedom of religion or belief and tackling the climate crisis,” a State Department spokesman has announced.
Read MoreThe John Jay Report found that between 1950 and 2002, 10,667 individuals alleged abuse by 4,392 priests and deacons. The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of Boy Scout victims “stepping forward climbed to 84,000, dwarfing similar alleg…
Read More“The Idlib Museum is considered one of the most important museums in Syria,” according to the report. “It was opened in 1987 and contains a great heritage dating to the 3rd millennium B.C.” Idlib is the capital of Syria’s …
Read More“This coming 1 July I will meet in the Vatican with the principal leaders of the Christian communities present in Lebanon, for a day of reflection on the country’s troubling situation and to pray together for the gift of peace and stability…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
The concept of the “collegiality” of bishops has been sharply contested since the Second Vatican Council debated it in 1962, 1963, and 1964. That discussion was sufficiently contentious that a personal intervention from Pope Paul […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega |
As the government of Daniel Ortega continues to crackdown on the opposition ahead of upcoming elections, the Catholic hierarchy is walking a tightrope between being prophetic and survival.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Church in the Americas, Cuba, Cuban bishops, family, Gender ideology, lead, News |
The Cuban bishops have hit back against a national resolution that would make so-called “gender ideology” part of school curricula, saying it disregards science and denies parents the ability to educate their own children.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Becket Fund, Bishop Nelson J. Perez, Catholic Social Services, Church in the US, Foster care, lead, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court |
Some are heralding a unanimous Supreme Court decision that upholds the ability of a faith-based foster care agency to operate according to its faith as a statement from the nation’s highest court of its commitment to religious liberty.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jenna Funkhouser. […]
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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Catechesis, family, Featured, Marriage & Family, News, parenthood |
The other day, I had a friend of mine text me about her child, who has anxiety and struggles with certain “scarier” aspects of Catholicism. Let’s be honest—at face value, there are a lot of things about our faith that could seem scary at first to a child—relics, martyrs, etc. But, in the proper context, […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | feast day, Featured, Nativity of John the Baptist, News, Saints, St. John the Baptist |
Tomorrow, June 24th, we celebrate the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. This feast stands out for many reasons, but the most obvious one is that today’s feast is one of three nativities on the Church Calendar. The other two are the Nativity of Mary, the Mother of God and (of course) Christmas, the feast […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In this age of identity politics, cancel culture, and the inversion of the hierarchy of true values, we may discover the root of our decline to be the endemic disorder of poor judgement preceded and followed by the rejection of first principles. Several public institutions work in concert to advance the civic campaign to blind […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | 2021, A National Crime, Canada, Canadians, Columns, David Warren, Genocide, Kamloops Residential School, News, The Catholic Thing, Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
David Warren: Catholics are blamed for graves found at a Canadian school, because anti-Catholics believe everything is a dark secret.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Yesterday was the feast of the martyr-saints Thomas More and Cdl. John Fisher. Will today’s Catholics, fed husks instead of…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 23, 2021 | Commentary, News |
In his new book, Multiculturalism in Canada: Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Values, Hugh Donald Forbes dissects Canada’s multicultural…
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