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Bishop Kevin Doran. / Courtesy of the Diocese of Elphin.
Dublin, Ireland, Jul 31, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).
A number of Irish Catholic dioceses have said that they will proceed with First Communions and confirmations after the government advised th…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
The flag of Nigeria on a soldier’s arm. / Bumble Dee/Shutterstock
Onitsha, Nigeria, Jul 31, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA).
An estimated 3,462 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in the first 200 days of 2021, according to a new study.This equates to …
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, In a Nutshell, News, Weekly Headlines |
There are two ways of reading Romeo and Juliet, one of which is correct, in the sense that it is the way that Shakespeare meant it to be read and understood, and the other is incorrect, in the sense that it violates and perverts Shakespeare’s intentions. The incorrect way of reading the play, which is […]
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, priest
Reading I Lv 25:1, 8-17
The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
“Seven weeks of years shall you count–seven times seven years–
so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine y…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Alzheimer’s, children, dementia, motherhood, News, Top Story |
My mother has dementia. I’ve been a mother myself for a good quarter century, so I’m used to trying to help people who can’t express what they want. Or who don’t want what they should. Or who don’t understand what they truly want. But this is different. In those cases I’d be trying to show respect and
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italian bishops, Italy, lead, Natural disasters, News |
As the Italian island of Sardinia continues to be ravaged by what locals have described as “apocalyptic” fires, bishops locally and nationally have said they are close to those who are suffering, or who have lost everything.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Araucania, Catholic Church, Chile, Church in the Americas, Dialogue, Indigenous peoples, lead, Mapuche, News |
Though Latin America is plagued with conflicts dating back centuries, few are as violent in the present than that of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Biden Administration, Bishop Daniel Flores, Church in the US, COVID-19, Greg Abbott, lead, News, Rio Grande Valley, Sister Norma Pimentel |
Catholic leaders in the busiest part of Texas for U.S.-Mexico border crossings fear a new executive order from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that bars non-government vehicles from transporting migrants to reduce the spread of COVID-19 could have the opposite effect.
Read MoreThe right to life is regarded as a human right—as a right that everyone also views as fundamental—and ultimately it belongs to everyone, at least theoretically. Preborn human beings—even if they were capable of it—cannot […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | 2021, Bill Maher, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Gallup NM, Helen Freeh's Higher Education in a Different Key, Higher education in America has been devastated., Jesus Christ, Kateri College of the Liberal and Practical Arts, Mike Rowe, News, Robert George, The Catholic Thing, Victor Davis Hanson, www.katericollege.org |
Helen Freeh: The criticism of our college system is correct: it is overpriced for a poor product in a toxic environment. We can change that.
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Read MoreIn the year 1521 a cannon ball fractured the left leg of Captain Ignatius Loyola, the future founder of the Jesuits. While he was convalescing, Ignatius read about Christ and His saints and thus turned wholly to God. He then undertook to equip himself …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | News, Nota in Brevis |
Emmanuel Macron’s entire security detail – his personal praetorian guard, if you will – quit en masse rather than submit to his requirement that they all pass his new ‘sanitary certificate’, that is, receive the new experimental gene-therapy vaccine. I admire their principled stance, heading out to the unemployment lines to sell their services to[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
“Could you not watch one hour with Me?” (Matthew, 26:40) I came to set fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already blazing! (Luke 12:49) With the vacation season in full swing, so many people choose to expose their bodies to the direct rays of the sun. Sadly, so few decide to[…]
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Read MoreThe newly elected Abbess and Council of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Ala., July 2021. Credit: Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.
Birmingham, Ala., Jul 30, 2021 / 17:01 pm (CNA).
Mother Mary Paschal has been elected the newest…
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Washington D.C., Jul 30, 2021 / 16:02 pm (CNA).
More than 25 Republican senators wrote to the Biden administration this week warning that a proposed rule would allow federal dollars to subsidize abortion coverage.“Abortion…
Blessed Solanus Casey. Photo courtesy of the Capuchin Franciscan Order of St. Joseph in Detroit.
Detroit, Mich., Jul 30, 2021 / 15:19 pm (CNA).
Blessed Solanus Casey’s childhood was not easy. He contracted diphtheria that permanently damaged his…
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