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According to the report, a federal judge has halted enforcement of a provision of an Arizona law that would have “brought felony charges against doctors who knowingly terminate pregnancies solely because the fetuses have a genetic abnormality suc…
Read MoreA federal judge is considering a lawsuit filed by St. Michael’s Media (Church Militant) against the City of Baltimore after the city canceled the group’s planned rally at a city-owned pavilion. The rally was scheduled to coincide with the U…
Read MoreAsiaNews reports that “ Sorcery Accusation-related Violence (SARV)” is “a widespread problem in Papua New Guinea. . . . It is not uncommon for an entire community to attack individuals accused of engaging in the occult (rituals and sp…
Read More“Listen” is the theme for the Pope’s message for the 2022 World Communications Day (background).“Pope Francis asks the world of communication to learn to listen again,” the Vatican press office commented. “At this ti…
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, took part in a September 28 UN meeting on the elimination of nuclear weapons.The prelate expressed gratitude to the 122 countries that have signed the recent …
Read MoreThe eastern Indian state of Bihar (map) is 82.7% Hindu, 16.7% Muslim, and 0.1% Christian.Dalits were once more commonly known as “untouchables” (Encyclopaedia Britannica article)
Read More“Scammers using fake documents and titles are involved in the illegal sale, transfer and gifting of land and property,” according to the report. An Anglican cathedral “has as many as 86 property-related cases pending in courts.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco defending the many Catholic bishops who have publicly considered barring pro-choice Catholic politicians from the Eucharist. But Archbishop Cordileone went a step further: he declared his support for the recent anti-abortion legislation in Texas, including praising the Lone Star State for […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, Catholic Church, Catholic Church in Germany, Catholic news, Diocese of Regensburg, Europe, German bishops, German Synodal Way, News, The Dispatch |
Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg. / Julia Wächter
Regensburg, Germany, Sep 30, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
A German Catholic bishop suggested this week that the country’s “Synodal Way” is using the abuse crisis to reshape the Church on Prot…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, diocese of Nashville, Lawsuits, News, Sexual abuse |
A lawsuit accuses the Catholic Diocese of Nashville of failing to protect a minor child from sexual abuse by an employee at a Murfreesboro church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News |
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said current conditions in Haiti allowed for the return of some of the estimated 14,000 Haitian migrants who crossed earlier in September from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas.
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saint Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church
Reading I Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12
The whole people gathered as one in the open space before the Water Gate,
and they called upon Ezra the scribe
to bring forth t…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Colorado, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, News, Religious exemptions |
A pediatrician and a medical student at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are challenging denials of their requests for religious exemptions from the school’s COVID vaccination mandate.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Catholic News Service, COP26, Environment, Laudato Si, News, Pope Francis, Pope video, Vatican |
Pope Francis praised and encouraged young climate activists in their efforts to build a more fraternal society that cares for the environment.
Read MoreIn Nigeria’s Kaduna State (map), 44 Christians were killed in nighttime attacks by Fulani herdsmen, according to International Christian Concern.“I learned with sorrow of the news of the armed attacks last Sunday against the villages of Ma…
Read MoreAs the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) approaches, Pope Francis on September 29 issued two messages related to care for the environment.The first was addressed to participants in a Council of Europe discussion on the environment and hu…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Latin Mass, Magazine, News, October 2021, Traditionis custodes, Vatican |
Now is the time for the bishops to come into their own. The Pope, in his motu proprio – Traditionis Custodes – on restricting the celebration of Mass in the extraordinary form, the Tridentine rite, has said that any would-be celebrant must first obtain the permission of the local bishop. Hearteningly the signs are that
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Read MoreRetired patriarch of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem acknowledges document that calls on Middle Eastern Christian communities to not see themselves as persecuted minorities
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Archdiocese of Baltimore, Associated Press, Baltimore, Catholic Church, Church in the US, First Amendment, lead, News, Steve Bannon |
A conservative Catholic media outlet seeking to stage a rally during a U.S. bishops’ meeting in Baltimore claims city officials canceled the event because they disapprove of its religious message.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Burkina Faso, Catholic Relief Services, Church in Africa, Jihadists, lead, News, Sahel, Togo |
A leading Catholic humanitarian agency has described the border between Burkina Faso and Togo as “a breeding ground for violence.”
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