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SECAM is the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. Africans “are going through distressing and traumatizing experiences caused by different variants of Coronavirus (Covid-19),” writes Burkina Faso Cardinal Philippe Ou…
Read MoreOn August 1, the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pope Francis devoted his Angelus address to John 6:24-35, the Gospel reading of the day. The Pope concluded, “Let us now pray to the Holy Virgin, to her who lived the most beautiful story of l…
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When the maid screamed, it only took seconds for 23-year-old Pier Giorgio Frassati to come to her defense. He quickly discovered that a group of Fascists had forced their way into the house to vandalize it. While some started to break furniture, another attempted to cut the telephone wires. “I threw myself at that scoundrel […]
Reading I Nm 11:4b-15
The children of Israel lamented,
“Would that we had meat for food!
We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt,
and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks,
the onions, and the garlic.
But now we are f…
Now that people have formed a new habit of not going to church on Sunday, how likely are they to revert to their old habit?
Read MoreThe Pope’s August prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “Let us pray for the Church, that she may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in th…
Read MoreThe New York archdiocese has instructed priests that they should not support parishioners who seek religious exemptions from Covid vaccination mandates.
Read MoreCardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua has vowed that the Catholic clergy in Nicaragua will not be silenced by fears of government reprisals. The cardinal said that the Church will continue to support democracy, despite attacks by the Ortega regime. Point…
Read MoreBishop Howard Hubbard, the retired leader of the Albany, New York, diocese, has acknowledged that in the 1970s and 1980s, priests who were credibly accused of sexual abuse would be sent to treatment facilities, then returned to ministry, without giving…
Read MoreThe public celebration of Mass has been suspended in the region around Manila until at least August 20. The suspension covers the Archdiocese of Manila and the dioceses of Cubao, Novaliches, Pasig, Paranaque, and Kalookan.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Africa, Church in Africa, lead, News, peace, Pope Francis, South Sudan |
A small delegation of Catholic bishops in South Sudan paid a courtesy visit to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit earlier this week to request a seat at the table in formal peace negotiations – a request they say was met with a positive response.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Agriculture, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News, small farmers |
Human rights advocates and Catholic leaders are objecting the Brazilian government celebrating Farmers’ Day in Brazil with a picture of a man holding a shotgun.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega Rosario Murillo, lead, Leopoldo Brenes, News, Nicaragua |
Nicaragua’s lone cardinal says that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is ready to face the persecution the government might carry out against them, and that they will continue speaking up in favor of democracy, unafraid of the consequences.
Read More“Whenever there’s famine, hunger, malnutrition, it’s not because of lack of food — it’s always because of political failure”
Read MoreDr. Jeremy Holmes is Associate Professor of Theology at Wyoming Catholic College. After a childhood in rural Arkansas, he earned his bachelors in liberal arts from Thomas Aquinas College in California, his masters in theology […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Featured, G.K. Chesterton, News, Orthodoxy, Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas |
“Since the modern world began in the sixteenth century,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “nobody’s system of philosophy has really corresponded to everybody’s sense of reality; to what, if left to themselves, common men would call common sense”. The prolific British essayist wrote these words in his book Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox, where he […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Not only does Communion enlighten our mind by a special grace, revealing to us, by impression rather than by reason, all that our Lord is, but it is also, and above all, the revelation to our heart of the law of love. The Eucharist is the sacrament of love par excellence. Certainly the other sacraments […]
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Robert Royal: Existence is too mysterious, strange, wonderful, to limit it to what our brains can determine about the physical world.
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American Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, a planetary astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory, says “I know enough to never say…
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