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Reading I Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28
The tent, which was called the meeting tent,
Moses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp.
Anyone who wished to consult the LORD
would go to this meeting tent outside the camp.
Whenever…
A Dutch bishop has charged that in Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis used language that “looks very much like a declaration of war” on traditional Catholics. In a fiery response, Bishop Rob Mutusaerts, an auxiliary of the ‘s-Hertogen…
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Read MoreThe southwestern Indian state of Kerala (map) is 55% Hindu, 27% Muslim, and 18% Christian. Two Eastern Catholic churches (the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church) have their headquarters there, as do two Oriental Orthodo…
Read MoreIn its coverage of the Pope’s July 25 Angelus address on John 6:1-15, L’Osservatore Romano drew attention to the Pope’s words on children’s hunger.
Read MoreIn a message to participants in a UN meeting leading up to the Food System Summit, Pope Francis said that the Covid epidemic provides an occasion for “addressing the roots of our unjust food system.” He said that “systematic injustice…
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Vatican City, Jul 27, 2021 / 01:55 am (CNA).
On Tuesday, the Vatican court is holding the first hearing in a trial against 10 people charged with committing financial crimes against the Holy See.The Vatica…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | belief, Benedict XVI, Faith, German Church, lead, News, Vatican |
Retired pope Benedict XVI has lamented what he said is an increasing institutionalization of the Catholic Church in Germany, making it a functional entity rather than the living body of Christ.
Read MoreThe Catholic bishops of Northern Ireland have protested a “gravely disquieting” decision by the government to make abortion services available, beginning in March 2022. “Westminster has imposed an unjust law,” the bishops said. …
Read MoreCardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, whose resignation was declined by Pope Francis, has indicated that he could offer his resignation again, if he thinks it would be beneficial for the Church. The German cardinal said that since he has made the commitmen…
Read MoreThe long-awaited trial of ten defendants, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, on financial-misconduct charges, opened before a Vatican tribunal hearing on July 27. After preliminary hearings this week, the trial is expected to adjourn for several weeks, …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Chile, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, Fernando Karadima, lead, News |
Fernando Karadima, who was once one of Chile’s most popular priests and then the country’s most infamous sexual predator, died on July 26 at the age of 90.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Corruption, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican finances |
Starting today, a historic fraud trial against a mixed array of people will begin in a modified courtroom in the Vatican Museums.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Bishop James Johnston, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, lead, News, Olympics, Tokyo |
Second behind Greece in the Olympics parade of nations on Friday was a team of athletes from 11 different nations with allegiances to none, instead representing the 26.4 million refugees, including themselves, worldwide.
Read MoreArchbishop Ilario Antoniazzi of Tunis reports that a decision by President Kais Saied of Tunisia to suspend the country’s legislature and assume full control of the government was “welcomed with relief” by most people, because “…
Read MoreThe Pillar news site has obtained cell-phone signal data that shows multiple devices inside the Vatican using hookup or dating apps. Although the data do not identify individual users, the devices were located in areas of the Vatican that are not ordin…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Liturgy of the Hours, News, Prayer, Psalms |
The promise of the Liturgy of the Hours calls the soul to faithfully pray the liturgical prayer of the Church daily. The Liturgy of the Hours unites the totality of the Catholic Church throughout the whole world. Catholic means universal and indeed it is a Catholic prayer, uniting peoples in prayer in every part of […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
The crowd that experienced His generosity were wasteful in the sense that they failed to respond to this gift as Christ intended. They wanted to make him a bread king by force, someone that would satisfy their material and physical needs. Consequently, He abandoned their presence when they tried to make Him king, “Since Jesus knew […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Featured, Marian Devotions, Mary, News, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Saints, Sophia Excerpts |
He belonged to many Marian organizations and prayed the Little Office of Our Lady. A very tangible witness of his all-consuming love for her was pinned to his study door: his handwritten copy of Saint Bernard’s Hymn to the Virgin from Dante’s Paradiso. Like many of us, he had a special fondness for her under […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | 2021, Anthony Esolen, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Eliot's The Waste Land, Freedom on a Mountain, Kearsarge Mountain, Magdalen College in New Hampshire, Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, News, Palestrina's Sicut cervus, Sigrid Undset's The Wild Orchid and The Burning Bush, Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, St. John Henry Newman, St. John Paul II, The Brothers Karamazov, The Catholic Thing, The Chaucer Review |
Anthony Esolen: It is as senseless to call the truth a cramp on liberty as to call a mountaintop a narrowing of the sight.
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