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In December 2020, Pope Francis announced a year of reflection on his 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), devoted to joy in the family. The year began on March 19, the fifth anniversary of the document’s publication, an…
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The saddest line in all of Western literature is at the end of Thomas Malory’s Le Mort d’Arthur. The divinely blessed Round Table has been destroyed, betrayed and sabotaged by the very knights who had been charged with its protection. King Arthur has been utterly defeated by jealous, power hungry hordes whipped into fury by […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Africa, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Human trafficking, Interviews, lead, modern day slavery, modern slavery, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, sex trafficking, Talitha Kum |
This year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is being observed July 30 under the theme, Victims’ Voices Lead The Way.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has appointed Dr. Julie H. Rubio to serve on the National Review Board (NRB). The NRB was established as part of the Charter for Protecti…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Since 2001, the United States has been involved in Afghanistan, and later Iraq, in military and a nation-building capacities. During that time, Afghan and Iraqi nationals have assisted U.S. troops, diplomats, and government humanitarian pers…
Read MoreWASHINGTON- On Wednesday evening, the House voted 217 to 212 in favor of H.R. 4373, the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) appropriations bill. H.R. 4373 excludes the Helms Amendment, which says that “no foreign assistance funds ma…
Read MoreReading I Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37
The LORD said to Moses,
“These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrate
at their proper time with a sacred assembly.
The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the…
On July 29, L’Osservatore Romano devoted its most prominent front-page article to a crisis that has received scant media attention: the brutal jihadist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province that has caused 800,000 people, 70% of …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | August 2021, Features, Magazine, News, Pilgrimage, Santiago, Top Story, Travel & Pilgrimage |
In an age of secular pilgrimage, James Jeffrey writes about walking with spiritual purpose
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Read MoreBeing human Jesus had to be either male or female and that did not mean that only half humanity could be saved
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Francesca Chaouqui, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican trial |
Earlier this week what is probably the Vatican’s highest stakes trial yet began, featuring the reappearance of Francesca Immaculata Chaouqui, who figured prominently in the 2015-2016 “Vatileaks 2” trial.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Church in the US, clergy sex abuse, criminal justice, lead, Massachusetts, News, Theodore McCarrick |
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was criminally charged in Massachusetts on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in 1974.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Catholic, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Peru, President Pedro Castillo |
Peru’s new president, Pedro Castillo, was sworn in on Wednesday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Best of Week, Featured, Fulton J. Sheen, Marriage, Marriage & Family, News, Sacraments, Sophia Excerpts |
Marriage as a sacrament belongs to an entirely different order than the mere union of man and woman through a civil contract. It basically regards a husband and wife as symbols of another marriage; namely, the nuptials of Christ and His Church. The analogy of the heavenly nuptials goes back to the Old Testament, where […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
The people who saw Jesus miraculously multiply loaves and fishes tracked Him down afterwards, looking for something. What was it? Jesus knew they were there for more than small talk, so He got right to point: “You are looking for Me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.” They wanted […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Bread of Life, Eucharist, Exodus, Featured, John 6, Living the Faith, manna, Moses, new Moses, News, Real Presence, sin, slavery, typology |
“Jesus wants to give us much more than free bread or liberation from earthly suffering. But we want to settle for much less.” In this Sunday’s Gospel we hear the continuation of the story of the multiplication of the loaves and fish that we…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Ignatius of Loyola |
One bone below the knee remained on top of another, shortening his leg. The bone protruded . . . an ugly sight. He was unable to abide it because he was determined to follow the world and he thought that it would deform him. The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola, trans. Joseph O’Callaghan (New York: […]
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David Warren: Vatican II’s liturgical changes were actually a deviation from the Council itself. Pope Francis has made the deviant normal.
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Read MoreOn the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street Become the figures of heaven, the majestic movement Of men…
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Cardinal Robert Sarah, the retired prefect of the Vatican’s liturgy office, underwent robotic-assisted surgery in southern Italy this week. The…
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