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In 2018, Pope Francis approved the Australian bishops’ request to convoke their first plenary council (definition) since 1937.“For the Church to flourish, it is crucial that we come to terms with the flaws of clericalism and move beyond i…
Read MoreThe announcement follows a recent White House event in which President Joe Biden declared, “‘Pride is back at the White House.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Archdiocese of Miami, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Disaster, Florida, Miami, News |
The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble of a Florida condo building — so tiny that the 4 and 10-year-olds were placed in the same casket — were buried alongside their parents Tuesday
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
As we come to know more and more about the doctrinal and moral corruption of the Church’s hierarchy today, which rivals Renaissance records, it seems to border on the miraculous that Summorum Pontificum—the motu proprio issued by Pope Benedict XVI liberalizing the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass—was ever issued at all. It was a […]
The east-central Indian state of Chhattisgarh (map) is 93% Hindu, 2% Muslim, and 2% Christian. “I have preached for 20 years in a rented room and just two years ago I bought this house,” said Firoz Bagh, pastor of an evangelical church. &ld…
Read MoreHarsha Walia tweeted “burn it all down” in response to coverage of the burning down of Catholic churches in Canada.
Read MoreBorn in 1948, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako became Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 2013.Militia attacks on power stations are “fueling anxiety, insecurity and instability for the future,” he told AsiaNews. “The gene…
Read MoreOn July 4, the 84-year-old Pope underwent intestinal surgery for diverticular stenosis of the colon.The following day, Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, said that the Pope “is in good general condition, alert and breathin…
Read MoreArchbishop John Myers (1941-2020) was Bishop of Peoria (1990-2001) and Archbishop of Newark (2001-2016). In 2014, he was criticized for a $500,000 addition to the retirement home.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Fr. Elijah Juma Wada was abducted on June 30, 2021, in Nigeria’s Maiduguri diocese. / Courtesy photo.
Maiduguri, Nigeria, Jul 7, 2021 / 03:03 am (CNA).
A Catholic diocese in Nigeria asked Tuesday for prayers for a priest abducted by suspected me…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
For the past several weeks, the report has been circulating that Pope Francis intends to curtail the freedom to celebrate the traditional Roman liturgy granted on this very day 14 years ago by Pope Benedict XVI with the issuance of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. Reliable sources, perhaps mostly notable Phil Lawler, have confirmed that […]
The 1983 Code of Canon Law (CIC) defines sacramentals as “sacred signs by which effects, especially spiritual effects, are signified in some imitation of the sacraments and are obtained through the intercession of the Church” (1166). The Second Vatican…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Catholic dioceses that are struggling to recover from decades of communist persecution will receive $3.56 million for ministry and outreach thanks to the generosity of American Catholics to the annual collection for the Church in Central a…
Read MoreReading I Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a
When hunger came to be felt throughout the land of Egypt
and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread,
Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Joseph
and do whatever he told them.
When the famin…
Tommaso Di Ruzza, the former director of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority, has expressed confidence that a Vatican tribunal will clear him of the charges brought against him by Vatican prosecutors. Di Ruzza told reporters: “I a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Liberation from lockdowns and quarantines ought not be liberation from serious reading, opportunities for which being one of the few boons of the recent past. Here are some suggestions for summer enrichment. Archbishop Charles J. […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Catholic media, Evangelization, Interviews, lead, Media, News, Pope Francis, Vatican communications |
For the new ecclesiastical assistant for the Vatican communications department, the job, and that of all who work in Church media, is fundamentally about two things: truth and evangelization.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Amazon, Amazon region, Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Pan-Amazon Region |
The newest addition to a fleet of hospital boats on the Amazon River is to be christened the Saint John XXIII, and will soon be serving patients in some of the most remote parts of Brazil.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | Catholic Church, Colombia, lead, Marian devotion, News, religious art, Vatican, Vatican gardens |
Once considered the “discarded” image of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá will now have a place of honor in the Vatican Gardens, with a replica built with 70,000 tiny mosaic pieces.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Marietta Lea B. Rosana. […]
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