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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Holidays/Feast Days, News, Saints and Fathers |
Thanks to Matt Swaim (Coming Home Network and Son Rise Morning Show) for sharing this with me today. St. Thomas is one of my very favorite people in the Bible.
The post Short 1 Minute Video in honor of St. Thomas on his Feast Day appeared first on Def…
Read MoreThe pachamama monstrance at St. John Macias parish in Zapopan, Mexico.
Guadalajara, Mexico, Jul 3, 2021 / 06:01 am (CNA).
The “pachamama” or “mother earth” image which accompanied various activities during the 2019 Amazon Synod in Rome was recen…
Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, pictured June 27, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Vatican City, Jul 3, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).
The Vatican announced Saturday that Cardinal Angelo Becciu will be trie…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | lead, London deal, News, Pope Francis, trial, Vatican, Vatican finances |
Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who oversaw the early stages of the London deal when he served as the substitute, or number two official, was indicted on Saturday along with nine others, including well-known Swiss lawyer René Brülhart, the former president of the Vatican’s financial watchdog unit.
Read More“Education got us into this; education will get us out of this.” Though those words were first spoken and repeated often by Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Sen. Murray Sinclair, they’ve become the personal motto of St. Mary’s University Elder…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Everyone knows that a good man is hard to find, but a good artist is even harder—especially in the Catholic art scene. As a result, what is not hard to find are churches resembling space stations, sentimental plaster saints, and modernist nonrepresentational adornments. Sacred art is in crisis, and on June 22, the world lost […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, In a Nutshell, News, Weekly Headlines |
The backdrop to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Beckett, one of the most popular pilgrim sites in the whole of Christendom until its destruction by Henry VIII. It consists of a General Prologue, in which Chaucer introduces the fictional characters who are travelling together on […]
WASHINGTON – On July 1, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it was imposing a moratorium on federal executions and reviewing its policies and procedures regarding the use of the death penalty. In response, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklaho…
Read MoreReading I Eph 2:19-22
Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and sojourners,
but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of the household of God,
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,
with …
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Amos, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Messiah, News, Psalmist, skandalizō, The Dispatch |
On the Readings for Sunday, July 8, 2018 […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Father Hans Zollner, lead, News, Vatican |
According to Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago, bishops and others in positions of leadership within the Catholic Church must never grow complacent when it comes to preventing clerical sexual abuse.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Canada, Church in the Americas, Indigenous, indigenous communities, lead, News, papal apology, Pope Francis |
Some Canadian indigenous leaders have said they intend to use the upcoming visit of delegations to the Vatican in December to encourage Pope Francis to come to Canada to make a formal apology for the atrocities committed at residential schools.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Church in the US, lead, migrants and refugees, News, President Joe Biden, Trump administration, universities |
A new report from a faith-based organization calls for the federal government to create educational pathways for refugees to resettle in the U.S., as the Biden administration looks to rebuild the nation’s refugee resettlement program.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | 2021, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Eucharistic coherence, Eucharistic incoherence, Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, Joe Biden, John Paul II, Nancy Pelosi, News, Pastoral Incoherence, The Catholic Thing |
Fr. Timothy Vaverek: Our problem is fifty years of contradictory versions of Church teaching with no pastoral correction from bishops.
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Read MoreSt. Thomas, the disciple who at first did not believe, has become for the Church one of the first witnesses to her faith. She is fond of appealing to his testimony and frequently puts in our mouths those simple words whereby he expressed the fervour of…
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