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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Ambassador Sam Brownback, Bishop David J. Malloy, Catholic Church, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, Uncategorised, USCCB |
Religious freedom advocates released a charter declaring the right of every person around the world to freely believe — or not believe — religious tenets and join with others in a religious community and for believers and religious communities to live peacefully in society.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | archbishop bernard hebda, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, George Floyd, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, police brutality |
Following Derek Chauvin’s June 25 sentencing for the murder of George Floyd, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis prayed it would “bring a measure of peace and healing” to Floyd’s family, his friends “and our community.”
Read MoreOn June 29, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. During the Mass, he blessed the pallia that will be given to recently appointed metropolitan archbishops around the world.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | British Columbia, Canada, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church fire, Church in the Americas, First Nations, indigenous communities, Native Americans, News |
Two more Catholic churches on First Nations land have been destroyed by fire, while fire damaged an Anglican church on First Nations land in northern British Columbia.
Read MoreArchbishop Polak, center, at a press conference presenting a report on clerical abuse in Poland, June 28, 2021. / @EpiskopatNews via Twitter
Warsaw, Poland, Jun 29, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The Catholic Church in Poland announced Monday that it ha…
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, lead, News, Pallium, Pope Francis, Sts. Peter and Paul, Vatican |
Celebrating the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Francis on Tuesday said the Church can only be credible if it is “free” from “dubious associations with power.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
I imagine that most everyone has heard the term “woke,” a term that refers to a supposed state of enlightenment to the issues of our time. In a way, it is a bit of an amorphous term, and I have seen people of all political and religious stripes employ its usage. However, it is largely […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In my recent book-length poem The Hundredfold, you will find this hymn, inspired by the parable of the Prodigal Son, to be sung to the melody “Old One Hundred Twenty-Fourth,” a melody you may know from the hymn “Turn Back, O Man”: I shall arise, and seek my Father’s house. Sated am I with all […]
Readings for the VigilReadings for the Mass during the Day
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Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Chris…
Readings for the Mass during the DayReadings for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Reading I Acts 3:1-10
Peter and John were going up to the temple area
for the three o’clock hour of prayer.
And a man crippled from birt…
Readings for the VigilReadings for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Reading I Acts 12:1-11
In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them.
He had James, the brother of John, killed by …
The parish, St. John the Baptist Church in Beloit, was at one time the largest Catholic parish west of the Mississippi River.
Read MoreIn August 2020, a federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, ruled that a Virginia school violated a transgender student’s constitutional rights by asking that the student use a unisex bathroom rather than the bathroom the student wanted to use. T…
Read More“A large-scale project is underway to Islamize or expel the indigenous populations,” said Bishop Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku of Butembo-Beni. “Anyone who has been kidnapped by these terrorist groups and managed to escape from them alive…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Ambazonia, Anglophone crisis, Bishop George Nkuo, Cameroon, Catholic Church, Interviews, lead, News |
A Cameroonian bishop claims a recent military operation aimed at wiping out Anglophone separatists in the department of Bui in the country’s North West region is radicalizing the population.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Books, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, euthanasia, lead, Netherlands, News |
In the Netherlands there seems to be a taboo on openly discussing the dark sides of euthanasia in the country. Dutch ethicists Theo Boer and Stef Groenewoud think it’s important to show those sides of the story as well.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Bishop Mark Seitz, Central America, children, Church in the US, Immigration, lead, News, Rio Grande Valley, Sister Norma Pimentel, U.S.-Mexico border |
For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Father Franciscus Asisi Eka Yuantoro was welcomed earlier this month into a government facility for unaccompanied minors in Donna, Texas, to celebrate Mass, which he called a “blessing.”
Read MoreNineteen people, 15 of them bystanders, were killed in a massacre in Reynosa, a city of 700,000 near the Texas border.
Read MoreIn the decade since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, the European Union, Obama administration, and Trump administration have imposed sanctions against the Syrian government.
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