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Writing in the New York Post about Harvard’s new chief chaplain, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles said, “I’m sure [Greg] Epstein is a nice fellow. I have nothing against him. But I do want to urge his presumably religiou…
Read MoreIn a homily delivered seven months after the military coup in Myanmar (map), Cardinal Charles Bo spoke of “seven months of civil strife, disappointment, deaths and despair.”“There is absolutely no room for a hypocrite in the Lord&rsq…
Read More“These laws, if passed, will overturn foundational principles that have underpinned our medical and legal systems for centuries – the ethic of ‘do no harm’ and the prohibition on killing,” the president of the Australian bishops…
Read MoreEthiopian and Eritrean troops are fighting against the regional government and local rebels in the Tigray War, which began in November 2020. “At present the current tensions in the northern area of the country force the Church to suspend the eme…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Beatification, Catholic nuns, Church in Europe, lead, News, Poland, Religious orders, saints and martyrs |
Although most eyes will be on Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a spiritual father to St. John Paul II, during a September 12 beatification ceremony in Warsaw, a blind countess who founded a religious order in the country will also be raised to the altars that day.
Read MoreThe Pope’s September prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicin…
Read MoreThe Season of Creation, an ecumenical initiative, begins on September 1—the World Day of Prayer for Creation in the Orthodox churches (since 1989) and the Catholic Church (since 2015)—and concludes on October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.In 20…
Read MoreThe Vatican’s Secretary of State delivered a 36-minute keynote address (video) at the 2021 gathering of the Korea Global Forum for Peace, hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Unification.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
This past June 25, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States — usually dubbed the “Vatican’s foreign minister” — told a press conference that he and his colleagues didn’t believe that […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Afghanistan, Caritas Internationalis, Caritas Italy, Church in Europe, lead, News, Refugees, Taliban |
Over the past two weeks, the Italian government has evacuated nearly 5,000 Afghans after the Taliban’s lighting-takeover of Kabul, and the Catholic Church is among the chief actors in helping them get settled.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in Africa, Congo bishops, Democratic Republic of the Congo, faith and politics, News |
A group of parliamentarians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have condemned attacks on Catholic churches in the country as “acts of barbarism.”
Read MoreA Vatican investigation has cleared Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn of sex-abuse charges. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found a complaint against the bishop, alleging misconduct in the 1970s, “not to have the semblance of tr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by P.C. Scheponik. Ner Tamid I used to love entering the empty church, to be alone with the whispers of the tall wooden timbers, the random creaking of the pews, the giant crucifix hanging in the ce…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | family, Featured, Homeschooling, Marriage & Family, motherhood, News |
I peered into the long, dimly lit hallway of a local chapel, unsure of what to expect. I came empty-handed, then realized I probably should have asked what to bring. It was my first time attending a homeschooling curriculum share for our regional cooperative I had recently joined. As I neared the doorway of a […]
In his Way to Wisdom, the distinguished German philosopher Karl Jaspers expands upon his observation that the innate disposition to philosophize is evident in human beings at a very early age. This natural gift of reacting spontaneously to the spontaneity of life, however, is often lost as the years advance. Then, as Jaspers laments, “we […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | 2021, baptizein baptism, careful Bible reading, Columns, Confessions of St. Augustine, dedit illum matri suae, Luke 7, memorial of St. Monica, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Francis, Resurrection, The Catholic Thing, “The Body Is for the Lord” |
Michael Pakaluk: In marriage and in our very lives, like the widow of Naim, we are dealing with direct and personal gifts from the Lord.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, History, Jesus Christ, News |
He gave us peace but also said He came to bring the sword (Matthew 10:34). He was conceived through the spirit of God and proclaimed that He “came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” (Luke 12:49). He healed the sick and cured the demon-possessed but urged those […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Commentary, News |
The Confessions changes lives. I know this is true because it changed mine. I read it as a freshman in…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
In a new interview, Pope Francis appears to criticize the handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan by the United States…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Critics will claim that Erasmus, the great Renaissance humanist, appears to be dead; and yes, that’s awkward. But given the…
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