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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
French President Emmanuel Macron tours Our Lady of the Hour Church in Mosul, Iraq, Aug. 29, 2021. / Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images.
Rome Newsroom, Aug 31, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).
French President Emmanuel Macron met this week with Iraqi Chris…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2021 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Msgr. Julius Agbortoko, vicar general of Cameroon’s Mamfe diocese, who was abducted by separatists on Aug. 29, 2021. / Diocese of Mamfe/Facebook.
Douala, Cameroon, Aug 31, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).
Separatists reportedly kidnapped the vicar general…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2021 | News, Nota in Brevis |
For an excellent summary of where things stand in Canada and elsewhere across the world, as ‘vaxx-passes’ make their inauspicious advent, limiting or forbidding access to schools, employment and social venues, see this open letter from the doughty Douglas Farrow. We are entering into uncharted totalitarian waters in this fair Dominion, in which, as Dr.[…]
The post Farrow’s Open Letter and Solzhenitsyn’s Exhortation appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MoreStefania Łącka, pictured in 1945. / Public domain.
Tarnow, Poland, Aug 31, 2021 / 03:30 am (CNA).
The sainthood cause of a Polish Catholic who dedicated herself to helping fellow prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp has opened.Bishop Andrze…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
It wasn’t long after I’d left South Vietnam for good—my year-long tour of duty having abruptly ended two weeks early, owing to growing enemy encirclement of the country—that the news broke that Saigon had finally fallen. This was in April of 1975, and by then America’s appetite for war had pretty much been exhausted. I […]
The church is located in Malatya, a city of 800,000 that is capital of Turkey’s Malatya province (map). The Mass follows “recent episodes of anti-Christian intolerance, the last of which saw the desecration of graves and tombstones in a ce…
Read MoreIn denying the student’s request for a religious exemption, the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts “cited a statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that receiving the COVID-19 vaccines was ‘morally j…
Read More“Do not let yourselves be paralyzed by difficulties, individualism, and indifference that marks our times,” Pope Francis said in a message to 20 Italian bishops who serve in rural dioceses.
Read MoreThe east-central Indian state of Chhattisgarh (map) is 93% Hindu, 2% Muslim, and 2% Christian.“India is a secular country,” said Sajan George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians, “but Indians, especially in Chhattisg…
Read MoreIn his August 11 general audience on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians and the Mosaic law, Pope Francis said, “The Law, however, does not give life, it does not offer the fulfillment of the promise because it is not capable of being able …
Read MoreChaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has said that a “poorly prepared visit” to Iraq by French President Emmanuel Macron could “risk fueling misunderstandings.” He observed that on a trip to Mosul, Macron met mostly with Europ…
Read MoreMsgr. Agbortoko Agbor, the vicar general of the Mamfe diocese, was kidnapped on August 29, apparently by militia of an English-speaking separatist group. He was seized by armed young men who raided the seminary, and is being held for ransom. The assail…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
“Divisive” is a loaded word. Like the adjective “prejudiced,” calling someone “divisive” automatically puts him on the defensive. And so, being the first to call someone else “prejudiced” or “divisive” is to gain the upper hand in any argument. This has been happening lately with the issues of the Latin Mass and the COVID-19 vaccines. […]
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Denver Newsroom, Aug 31, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
The power of major internet companies like Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, and Twitter over public life is a particular threat to religious groups that focus on controversi…
WASHINGTON —Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued the following statement praying for the lives and safety of all those impacted by Hurricane Ida which has made landfall in the Gul…
Read MoreReading I 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11
Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters,
you have no need for anything to be written to you.
For you yourselves know very well
that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.
When peop…
“In the past year, 10 bishops in Poland have been removed from their positions and sanctioned by the Vatican, with the papal representative in the country openly acknowledging the reason – in most cases, cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by cler…
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