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Burning churches “is not our native way,” said Jenn Allan-Riley, who was separated from her family by Canadian government policy in the 1960s and is now a Pentecostal Christian minister. Cheryle O’Sullivan, who attended a residential …
Read MoreAccording to the report, in 2005, the province’s bishops pledged to raise $25 million for residential school survivors, but less than $4 million has been raised. The bishops said in a July 3 letter that they “have begun consultations this …
Read MoreThe conscience-protection provision was part of a 2,438-page budget bill, which passed by large margins in the state house (83-13) and state senate (32-1).
Read MoreFather Elijah Juma Wada was kidnapped in Borno State (map); according to the report, members of the jihadist group Boko Haram are suspected in the abduction.
Read MoreAlexander Lukashenko has been president of Belarus since 1994. The Eastern European nation of 9.5 million (map) is 64% Orthodox and 12% Catholic.
Read MoreThe vandalism at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Merced is one of over 75 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at US parishes since May 2020.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Catholic Church, lead, News, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Vatican |
According to his personal secretary, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI is praying for the health of Pope Francis, after his successor underwent surgery on Sunday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Bishop Silvio Baez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega |
A Catholic bishop has condemned Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on opposition leaders after the authoritarian leader arrested several figures that played a role in the 2018 protests that shook his regime.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Asia - Pacific, News |
Food packages are distributed in the Archidiocese of Bhopal in central India. / Bhopal Archdiocese.
Bhopal, India, Jul 6, 2021 / 03:30 am (CNA).
A Catholic archdiocese in India is continuing to distribute food to families affected by the country…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
“After the consecration of the bread and wine, Our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and man, is really, truly, and substantially contained in the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist under the outward appearances of sensible things.”—Council of Trent, Decree on the Most Holy Eucharist, Chapter 1 The rise in Catholic disbelief in the Real […]
Using funds from an annual speical collection, the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America awarded $2.5 million to 135 pastoral projects. “The Church in Latin America has suffered greatly from political oppression, civil war, economic turmoil…
Read MoreIndia’s bishops were among those who called for the release of Father Stan Swamy, who was arrested in 2020 on charges of Maoist terrorism.
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 breathing…
Read MoreOn May 4, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin as his legate for the 1300th anniversary of the death of St. Odile, patroness of Alsace; on June 21, the Pontiff signed a Latin letter for the occasion.The Mass (video) took…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In the preface to the first edition of the book The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions, after addressing the fact that he’s a secular Jew whose “religious education did not take,” who “barely remembers a word of Hebrew” and “cannot pray,” and after addressing the content of the book as a “defense of […]
Reading I Gn 32:23-33
In the course of the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives,
with the two maidservants and his eleven children,
and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
After he had taken them across the stream
and had brought over a…
As delegates to Chile’s Constitutional Convention met for the first time on July 4 to draft a new constitution for the South American nation, the nation’s bishops called for prayer.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Gemelli Hospital, lead, Media, News, News Analysis, Papal health, Pope Francis, St. John Paul II |
Combine intense media interest with an informational vacuum, and what you usually get is chaos.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Agostino Gemelli, Catholic hospitals, Church in Europe, lead, News, Papal health, Pope Francis |
Pope Francis is currently recovering from colon surgery at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, also known as “the pope’s hospital” or “the third Vatican” given some of its more high-profile Catholic patients over the years.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
One of the greatest blessings and gifts that flow out of the Sacred Heart of Our Lord is a mercy that is expressed most deeply through the Sacrament of Confession. This Sacrament is also sometimes called the Sacrament of Pardon, Reconciliation, Penance, as well as Sacrament of God’s Mercy. Words that produce inexplicable peace, joy, […]
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