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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Associated Press, Boko Haram, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, Terrorism |
Praying, crying and waiting for news about their children, the parents of more than 120 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at the Bethel Baptist High School in the nation’s northern Kaduna state have been gathering at the school awaiting updates about their children.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, News |
A Florida couple is suing a Catholic school and demanding the return of a large donation, saying it isn’t adhering to Catholic values because of the way it’s handling issues like race and accepting the LGBTQ community.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | CAFOD, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, human rights, Latin America, lead, News, South America |
A leading British Catholic charity is calling on businesses and governments to do more to protect human rights defenders in Latin America.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Gemelli Hospital, lead, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, Surgery, Vatican |
This week Pope Francis had surgery to remove part of his colon. Here’s a list of some of the medical terms that have come up and what they mean.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Apologetics, Catholic Controversies, News, Reviews, Critiques, Surveys, Theology |
An e-mail I received today with a very important and pertinent question. It involves the inerrancy of Scripture. In short, this means that the Scriptures do not contain errors. I decided to answer the e-mail and share my response. Pope Leo XIII wrote, “For all the books that the Church receives as sacred and canonical […]
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Do not go back to normal. Fight against the temptation and propensity within your parish, family, and friends to return to normal. The status quo within the Church is failing miserably, and yet, we keep doing the same things over and over again expecting different results. Until we begin to pray and seek the face of Christ within our parishes. Until we dedicate our lives to pursuing holiness above all else, we will not see any change take place. We will remain spiritually listless or spiritually blind or dead. Only a total dependence on Christ will lead us out of this present darkness into His radiant light.
Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg as relator general for the 16th general assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
The Synod of Bishops will meet in October 2023 to discuss the question of synodality in Church governance…
One of the most intellectually compelling things I’ve ever read on the problem of pain and God’s existence was a reflection by my friend Bryan Cross on the death of his two-year-old son. Amidst his anger and grief, Cross realized a kind of trilemma: Either God did not exist, or God was evil, or God […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Carmelite, encounter, Faith, Featured, God, In the Spotlight, listening, Love, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, silence, Solitude, Spiritual Life |
A prayerful, meditative silence is the mother of truth. by Sister Mary Clare, O.C.D. Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles God cannot be found in noise and agitation. His true power and love are revealed in what is hardly perceptibl…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | "Indifference at Home", 2021, C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dom Philip Jebb, Dulce et Decorum Est by Michael Pakaluk, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Flannery O'Connor, men without chests, Michael Pakaluk, Msgr. Ronald Knox, News, poet Wilfred Owen, Roman poet Horace, Siegfried Sassoon, Sweet and fitting it is, The Catholic Thing, to die for one’s country, World War I, WWI |
Michael Pakaluk: The death in battle has never been “sweet,” pleasant to see, or experience; not a matter of feeling or sentimentalism.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Pictures of some relics of the very first person born within the United States to be canonized, Saint Elizabeth Ann…
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Read MoreBent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Throughout his astonishing life, Ratzinger has never wavered from the foundational conviction that God alone can provide what man ultimately…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | In the News, News |
When the Supreme Court agreed in May to take up the case of Jackson Women’s Health Organization v. Dobbs –…
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Read MoreSt. Frances Xavier Cabrini (public domain)
Rome, Italy, Jul 7, 2021 / 22:01 pm (CNA).
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is a beacon of hope and life, the general superior of the order founded by the saint, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of …
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
In the first reading, Joseph, who was sold as a slave to Egypt by his brothers, finally reveals himself to them now that he was the chief minister of Egypt. He understood that God’s designs included his being sold as a slave and his subsequent sufferings which eventually led to his vindication and exaltation. He […]
Read MoreBl. Peter Vigne, a French priest, was beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II and proposed to the universal Church as an example of a tireless missionary and apostle of the Most Holy Sacrament.
Read MoreJonathan Huener’s new study The Polish Catholic Church Under German Occupation: The Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945 is a valuable addition to the discussion on the relationship between Nazism and Christianity. The book’s impact is occasionally limited …
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