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St. Sharbel was a Lebanese monk, born in a small mountain village and ordained in 1858. Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he spent the last twenty-three years of his life as a hermit. Despite temptations to wealth and comfort, Saint Sharbel taught th…
Read MoreA man waves a Cuban flag during a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, July 11, 2021. – Thousands of Cubans took part in rare protests Sunday against the communist government, marching through a tow…
Read MoreVenezuelan president Nicolas Maduro speaks at a rally in Caracas in support calling a constituent assembly, May 23, 2017. / Marco Salgado/Shutterstock
Caracas, Venezuela, Jul 23, 2021 / 17:01 pm (CNA).
Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela,…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | artificial contraception, Cheap Sex, Humanae Vitae, Mark Regnerus, Marriages, Natural Family Planning, Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, News, NFP, Practicing Catholic, Reproductive ethics, sex trafficking, Sexual morality, Stronger marriages |
The Catholic Church’s teaching against artificial contraception is one of its most controversial, but it’s vitally important for supporting marriages and families, Bishop Andrew Cozzens said on a “Practicing Catholic” radio program set to air at 9 p.m. July 23.
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Greensburg, Pa., Jul 23, 2021 / 16:01 pm (CNA).
An anonymous donor and new partners will help continue millions of dollars in funding for a tuition aid program for the Diocese of Greensburg’s Catholic schools. The prog…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Enugu, Nigeria was vandalized Nov 4, 2013. / Aid to the Church in Need/www.kirche-in-not.ch.
Lokoja, Nigeria, Jul 23, 2021 / 15:39 pm (CNA).
Boko Haram sympathizers and others who support Nigeria being an Isl…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | Berdyaev, Dostoevsky, News, Orthodoxy, Russia, Sergei Ovsiannikov, Solzhenitsyn, The Dispatch |
The Russian soul is singularly situated toward an authentic understanding of freedom. Dostoevsky, Berdyaev, Solzhenitsyn and, most recently, Sergei Ovsiannikov, all endured the crucible of confinement. It was here—and not in the decadent pleasures of […
Read MoreBishop Peter Libasci of Manchester. Credit: Jeff Dachowski.
Rockville Centre, N.Y., Jul 23, 2021 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Bishop Peter Libasci has been accused in a lawsuit of committing sexual abuse while a priest in New York during the 1980s. Th…
Cardinal Walter Kasper. / CNA/Bohumil Petrik.
Denver Newsroom, Jul 23, 2021 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
German prelate Cardinal Walter Kasper argued that the Traditional Latin Mass was a source of division and scandal within parishes in an interview about…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | Essay, Features, Gregorian Chant, Latin, Liturgy, News, participation, Pius X, Pius XII, Pope John Paul II, Roman rite, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Second Vatican Council |
Editor’s note: This essay appeared originally in the September/October 2000 issue of Catholic Dossier and is based on a lecture on the liturgy given by Father Fessio in May, 1999. —————- The Constitution on the […]
Read MoreCardinal Raymond Burke gives the final blessing during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Denver Newsroom, Jul 23, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Catholic clergy and lay people around the world continue…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2021 | Bridget Busacker, Cami Berthiaume, Natural Family Planning, Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, News, Practicing Catholic |
Bridget Busacker, founder of Managing Your Fertility, an online resource for women and couples, describes fertility awareness as a good building block for women before they move into natural family planning after marriage. “It’s a great segue when you can start ‘charting’ before you’re married, to lead into natural family planning as a married woman,” she said.
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