Theme of Pope’s general audience: St. Paul, a true Apostle (CWN)
A week after he began a new series of Wednesday general audiences devoted to St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, Pope Francis reflected on St. Paul as a true apostle.
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A week after he began a new series of Wednesday general audiences devoted to St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, Pope Francis reflected on St. Paul as a true apostle.
Read MoreMetropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon led the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s delegation to the Vatican for the celebration of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. He is the second-ranking hierarch in the Ecumenical Patriarchate.Refe…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
We Catholics owe a debt to Dave Ramsey. The Evangelical Protestant has helped millions of Americans fight the scourge of usury far more fiercely than our own clerics or laymen. Ask most parishes today for a class on money management and they would turn to Ramsey’s “Financial Peace University.” His most popular book, The Total […]
Read MoreThe parish, St. John the Baptist Church in Beloit, was at one time the largest Catholic parish west of the Mississippi River. A local police investigation has identified two juveniles in connection with the fire.
Read MoreIn Canada, four churches have been burned to the ground, and others vandalized, following the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at two former residential schools.
Read MoreOn June 29, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles, Pope Francis delivered an Angelus address in which he reflected on Matthew 16:13-19, the Gospel reading of the day.“Through His witnesses Peter and Paul, He [the Lord] urges us to tak…
Read MoreHoly Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, where President Biden regularly attends Mass, has released a statement: “As the Holy Trinity Parish Council, we stand with our Archbishop, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, concerning the issues surrounding offe…
Read More“369 cases of sexual assault, committed between 1958 and 2020, were reported between July 2018 and the end of last year,” Euronews reported. “39% of the complaints were found to be true, while investigations continue into more than 50…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Western culture has been under attack since its inception. From the 300 Spartans at the Hot Gates, to Lenin, Marx, and the Cold War, this is nothing new. There are dark forces roaming the world that would usurp the sacred role of transcendence at the heart of the Western tradition. Catholicism, a defining institution of […]
Read MoreReadings for the Optional Memorial of the First Holy Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
Reading I Gn 21:5, 8-20a
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Isaac grew, and on the day of the child’s weaning
Abraha…
“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 More“What’s going to happen in five, 10, 20 years’ time is that a lot of churches are going to close, simply because the money is not there to maintain these very expensive buildings,” said Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, one of the p…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has dismissed as moot a challenge to President Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy), as President Biden has terminated the protocols. (SCOTUSblog has offered detai…
Read MoreThe Blessed Sacrament was not in the monstrance at the time of the theft.Since May 2020, there have been over 75 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes in the United States.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
At 1 p.m. EDT on June 18, it was announced that three-quarters of the U.S. bishops had voted to develop a statement on the eucharistic integrity of the Church and the eucharistic coherence of Catholics. […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, Dalit Christians, Dalits, India, lead, News, police brutality |
Catholic leaders in India are demanding answers after the death of a Dalit Catholic woman in custody after she was accused of stealing money from a church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Church in Europe, ddl Zan, homophobia, Homosexuality, lead, Mario Draghi, News, Vatican diplomacy |
In a recent interview, the Vatican’s top official on life issues criticized both a proposed anti-homophobia law in Italy and the Holy See’s resistance to the bill.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Interviews, lead, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, University of Notre Dame |
Stephanie Barclay directs Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, which involves promoting religious liberty scholarship.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Cabo Delgado, Catholic Church, child bride, child soldiers, Interviews, Islamic extremists, lead, Mozambique, News |
As the fighting intensifies in the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, children are paying a stiff price.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 30, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Like Peter Like Peter I know not where I’m to go when others shy at mystery and […]
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