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For educator Vanessa Pinto, the discovery of unmarked graves outside of residential schools has only strengthened her resolve to raise awareness of Indigenous history, culture and perspectives in the classroom.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, ddl Zan, homophobia, Homosexuality, law, lead, News |
After apparently to criticize the Vatican’s formal complaint of a proposed anti-homophobia law in Italy during a public event last week, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia has given several interviews on the topic in which he appears to walk back his critique and urges greater Church-State cooperation.
Read MoreExclusive interview with Eric Salobir, the French Dominican priest who is one of the Catholic Church’s top experts in media and digital technology (Part 2 of 2)
Read MorePope Francis sent a Spanish-language video message to a meeting of the Asociación Cristiana de Dirigentes de Empresa (Christian Association of Business Executive); the meeting’s theme was “Towards a more humane capitalism.” The …
Read More“Pope Francis is deeply committed to hearing directly from Indigenous Peoples, expressing his heartfelt closeness, addressing the impact of colonization and the role of the Church in the residential school system, in the hopes of responding to th…
Read MoreGov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), a Presbyterian who has served as a deacon and elder in his church, said that the “bill is unconstitutional, and it damages the doctor-patient relationship with an unprecedented governmental intrusion.” The Human Lif…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Eritrea, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters |
Comboni Sister Tseghereda Yohannes said she was caught off guard when she was appointed secretary-general of the Eritrean bishops’ conference.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Child pornography, Church in Europe, COMECE, European union, News |
Catholic campaigners have demanded action to curb growing online pornography and child abuse in the European Union, as the bloc’s Catholic bishops welcomed new legislative proposals but also urged tighter controls.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Pope Francis hears grumbling about Fr. James Martin, SJ. So, he turns to his key advisors. He starts with the Jesuit Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, he of 2+2=5 theological fame, who tells Francis there is no problem with Martin who is doing God’s own work in building bridges to a marginalized community. […]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin called on the Church in Germany “to return to a unity that does not depend on agreeing to common orientations, as is usual in politics, but on being rooted in God.” The Vatican Secretary of State also met with Chance…
Read MoreThe prefects of three Vatican congregations jointly signed the Italian-language decree of suppression of the Movimento Apostolico (Apostolic Movement). Maria Moreno founded the movement in 1979 in Catanzaro, Italy; the local archbishop approved its …
Read MoreFire has destroyed St. Jean Baptiste Parish in Morinville, a town of 10,000 in the Edmonton metropolitan region in Alberta (map).Alberta Premier Jason Kenney condemned the fire as a “violent hate crime targeting the Catholic community.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic University of America, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, USCCB |
A Catholic agency has collaborated with a professor from The Catholic University of America on a report pointing out deficiencies but also opportunities in the care of unaccompanied migrant children in the United States.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
For a remarkable example of overplaying your hand, not to mention sheer audacity, behold the letter by 60 Catholic Democrats to the U.S. bishops. It is a surreal document. Reading it leaves one with mouth slightly open, staring and blinking at the page. In asserting its signers’ unrestricted right to advance abortion as “proud” Catholic […]
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U.S. Olympic gymnast Grace McCallum is bringing both her skills and her Catholic faith to the Tokyo games in July. McCallum does not travel anywhere without her rosary an…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Cardinal George Alencherry, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in India, financial scandal, India, News, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church |
A controversial land deal that rocked India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church four years ago has resurfaced after a group of priests called a Vatican restitution decree unjust and unethical.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis welcomed Lebanon’s Christian religious leaders to the Vatican on Thursday for a day of prayer
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland, Gay marriage, Great Britain, Methodists, News, Same-sex "Marriage" |
Britain’s Methodist Church announced Wednesday that same-sex couples will be allowed to get married on its premises.
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Most Reverend John R. Manz, 75, from the Office of Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago.
The resignation was publicized in Washington on July 1, 2021 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio …
Read MoreReading I Gn 22:1b-19
God put Abraham to the test.
He called to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said: “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah.
There you shall offer him up as …
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