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Pope Francis pictured at the general audience at the Vatican April 17, 2013. Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.
Vatican City, Jul 8, 2021 / 05:03 am (CNA).
Pope Francis underwent a CT scan of his chest and abdomen on Thursday morning after runni…
The Court will consider Carson v. Makin, a Maine case that involves reimbursement for school tuition, and has declined to consider Arlene’s Flowers, Inc. v. Washington, letting stand a ruling against a florist who decided not to provide flowers…
Read More116 capitulars (leaders and delegates) are participating in the 16-day general chapter of the Order of Friars Minors, founded by St. Francis of Assisi. The theme of the general chapter, which will chart the course for the 13,000-member order for the n…
Read MoreKenny Bell is mayor of Iqaluit, the capital and largest city in the Canadian territory of Nunavut (map).“Tax exemptions, as a whole, are supposed to be for groups that do the community good,” he said. “It’s very clear that the C…
Read More“The world may have come to a standstill because of COVID-19, but the ships have never stopped sailing from port to port, delivering critical medical equipment and medicines to support the fight against the spread of the virus,” said Cardin…
Read MoreThe vandalism at the Basilica of Saint Lawrence in Asheville is one of over 75 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at US parishes since May 2020.
Read MoreThe board of Saints Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan, has announced that the seminary will close at the end of the 2021-22 academic year. Eleven seminarians currently study there.
Read MoreStating that the school has strayed from fidelity to Catholic teaching, the parents have sued the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa. In a lawsuit, they allege that “the Academy lost its way, distancing itself from mainstream Catholicism, and e…
Read MoreSister Gloria Narváez Argoti was kidnapped in 2017.Mali, a West African nation of 19.6 million (map), is 89% Muslim, with 9% adhering to ethnic religions. The Mali War began in 2012; it pits Mali’s government (supported by France) against …
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One of Pope Francis’s most controversial projects is preparing for its fourth edition in September.
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It is no secret that birth rates have been plummeting in developed countries worldwide for the past several decades. Even a BBC headline referred to this global baby crash as “jaw dropping.” The United States is no exception. After rebounding a bit between 1997 and 2007, the birth rate has dropped steadily—4 percent just between […]
In his July 7 update on the Pope’s condition following surgery, the director of the Holy See Press Office said that “Pope Francis is touched by the many messages and the affection received in these days, and expresses his gratitude for the …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Someone asked me the other day which saint to turn to when one is struck by a migraine. Since I’ve never had one, I didn’t know. So, I suggested we do a Google search so that we’d both know. Turns out there are two intercessory experts, Gemma Galgani and Teresa of Avila, both of whom […]
Reading I Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5
Judah approached Joseph and said: “I beg you, my lord,
let your servant speak earnestly to my lord,
and do not become angry with your servant,
for you are the equal of Pharaoh.
My lord asked your …
When I was in the seminary at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, one of my apostolates was to give English-speaking tours of St. Peter’s Basilica. In such a role, I encountered people of every sort and kind. Every week, parts of the world p…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Los Angeles, News |
A man who was naked except for shorts and one sock climbed to the top of a soaring church tower in East Los Angeles Wednesday night.
Read MoreOn July 4, Pope Francis underwent scheduled but previously unannounced surgery at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome for symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon. Stenosis is the narrowing of a bodily passage; the American Society of Colon a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Syracuse, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News |
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to re-examine” 15th-century Vatican documents that justified colonization, land takeovers and oppression of Indigenous peoples.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Abortion, Abortion law, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Hyde Amendment, News, U.S. Congress |
Taxpayer-funded abortion “represents a failure to recognize the sanctity of human life and promotes a culture in which human life in its most vulnerable moment is perceived as disposable,” said Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin.
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