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Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen celebrated Mass in the church where Father Jacques was slain by jihadists in 2016. Later that year, Pope Francis waived the typical requirement that sainthood causes begin five years after a person’s death. &…
Read MoreTwo women ministers make history in the United Protestant Church of France (EPUdF), which has been blessing same-sex unions since 2015
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border |
With a surge in the first few months of 2021 of minors entering the United States without a parent or guardian, figures from fiscal year 2020 already have surpassed the total of unaccompanied minors who made border entries during the previous fiscal year.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Burma, Cardinal Charles Bo, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Myanmar, News |
The Catholic Church is lending a hand to people affected by the coronavirus in Myanmar as the country’s health system struggles to cope with a record wave of COVID-19 infections.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Archdiocese of Miami, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Haiti, News |
Members of South Florida’s Haitian-American community were left saddened by the inexplicable and as yet unsolved assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Suppose you were watching a recent edition of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News with your 12-year-old son or daughter. Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo were discussing President Biden’s incoherent responses to questions posed to him during a CNN Townhall event. Here’s a transcript of one Biden reply from a video clip played by Ingraham: […]
The Congregation of Christian Brothers operated the Mount Cashel Orphanage from 1898 to 1990.
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops recently issued a renewed plea to contact members of Congress about “four of the most extreme pro-abortion bills EVER,” in the words of the USCCB action alert.
Read MoreThe Human Life Review has published a symposium on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Supreme Court will decide during its 2021-22 term.
Read MoreThe parish, St. Peter’s Church, is located in New Westminster, a city of 70,000 near Vancouver. The church is entrusted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the religious institute that administered over 40% of the Indian residential schools in Ca…
Read MoreIn Australia, “the current outbreak of 2,000 or so cases total over the past month has been associated with eight deaths so far, almost all of them people over 70,” according to a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “This in a nation that rec…
Read MoreIn 2018, the Vatican announced the laicization of Fernando Karadima, the influential Chilean priest who was at the center of the sex-abuse scandal in that country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Australia, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, COVID restrictions, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, New South Wales, News, Vaccinations, Vaccines |
With a national emergency declared in Australia’s most populous state, Catholic not-for-profit hospitals called on the Australian government to make vaccinations compulsory for all hospital staff across the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Dorothy Day—who died in 1980 and was declared a Servant of God in 2012—was widely hailed as a great hero of the Catholic Left, even as her fierce orthodoxy baffled and embarrassed liberal Catholics everywhere. Yet it was Miss Day, this icon of Catholic progressivism, who famously said, “If the Cardinal ordered me to stop […]
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Vatican City, Jul 27, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis described world hunger on Monday as “a crime that violates basic human rights.” In a July 26 message to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, the pope calle…
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Vatican City, Jul 27, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis described world hunger on Monday as “a crime that violates basic human rights.” In a July 26 message to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, the pope calle…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, faith and sports, News, Olympics, sports |
When the interview with Olympic cyclist Felicia Stancil began, the 26-year-old Indianapolis resident said it would be great if one particular story could be shared with people.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, faith and sports, News, Olympics, sports, University of Notre Dame |
“Golden is thy fame, indeed,” the University of Notre Dame in Indiana tweeted July 25 after Lee Kiefer, class of 2017, won the gold medal in women’s foil fencing at the Tokyo Games.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Agriculture, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), News, Pope Francis, United Nations, Vatican, World Food Program |
Restarting local economies with a focus on providing adequate food for all the world’s people means governments must involve and listen to small farmers and farming families, Pope Francis said.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News |
Lebanon’s newly appointed Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati on Monday urged unity to begin recovery from a devastating economic and financial meltdown roiling the country.
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