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Posted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, festivals, News, Peru, Processions |
Peru’s most popular Catholic procession, the Lord of Miracles, has been canceled for the second straight year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the archbishopric of Lima announced Tuesday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, South Sudan |
Armed conflict continues to cause death and displacement in South Sudan, pushing Catholic leaders here to plead for the conflict’s victims.
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, 77, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Brooklyn and has appointed Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Columbus, as Bishop of Brooklyn. The appointment was publicized …
Read MorePope Francis and the unfinished work of Vatican II
Read MoreReading I Dn 7:9-10, 13-14
As I watched:
Thrones were set up
and the Ancient One took his throne.
His clothing was bright as snow,
and the hair on his head as white as wool;
His throne was flames of fire,
…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Bishop Georg Bätzing, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, German bishops, German Church, German synodal path, Germany, News |
As German Catholics prepare for their second Synodal Assembly, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of German bishops’ conference, called for courageous change in church and society.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, News |
A priest has resigned as chaplain of a Catholic high school in northeastern Indiana after he was accused of sexually abusing a minor, the local diocese says.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Abortion, Abortion law, Associated Press, Chile, Church in Chile, Church in the Americas, News |
The lower house of Chile’s Congress took a step toward decriminalizing abortion in most cases Tuesday, voting to craft a law barring prosecution of women who get abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Read MoreCardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, and Father Christian Barone have published a book on brotherhood in the social teaching of Pope Francis.
Read MoreIn the most prominent front-page article in its September 28 Italian edition, the Vatican newspaper explained that Pope Francis’s two tweets of the day were intended to coincide with a three-day meeting of young climate activists in Milan.
Read MoreArchbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, was among the speakers at “Public Health in Global Perspective,” a workshop organized by the academy. The prelate also spoke at a September 28 a press conference.Dr…
Read MoreArchbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has launched a campaign of prayer and fasting for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Citing the passage in the House of Representatives of sweeping legislation to legalize abortion on demand, the archbishop said: &ld…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Alaska, Catholic Extension, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Fairbanks, indigenous communities, Native Americans, News |
Father Stan Jaszek, a missionary priest from Poland who is serving Native Alaskans in the Diocese of Fairbanks, has been named the recipient of Catholic Extension’s 2021-2022 Lumen Christi Award.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
When I met Cardinal Agostino Casaroli on February 14, 1997, the architect of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik and its soft-spoken approach to communist regimes in east central Europe in the 1960s and 1970s could not have […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Angels, Annunciation, Archangels, Featured, News, Prayer, Saints, Sophia Excerpts |
The first time we find the term “evangelization” in Scripture is in the Gospel of St. Luke, and the first evangelizer is the same angel who appeared to Daniel in the Old Testament: the archangel Gabriel. Gabriel appears as the messenger of the Most High, bearing the good news of salvation in two annunciations — […]
An ecumenical task force of Christians, meeting in Lebanon, has warned that Church leaders should be careful of allying themselves closely with the Western world. That strategy risks alienating non-Christian Arabs, the group says—and also lends c…
Read MoreThe Catholic bishops of Spain have voiced opposition to the government’s plan to compile a list of health-care workers who decline to participate in abortion. Noting that the list could be used to deny jobs to conscientious objectors, Archbishop …
Read MoreCiting “sources at the apostolic palace,” Catholic News Agency reports that President Joe Biden will meet Pope Francis in Rome on October 29.
Neither the Vatican nor the White House has confirmed the report. But Biden is expected to be in…
Isabel Diaz Ayuso, a prominent figure in the People’s party in Spain, has taken issue with Pope Francis over the Pontiff’s reference to “very painful errors” made by the Catholic Church during the evangelization of Mexico. &ldqu…
Read MoreThe booming international business of surrogate motherhood has been disrupted by Covid lockdowns, as restrictions on travel have made it difficult to carry out contracts for surrogacy. Hundreds—probably thousands—of babies, some now over a …
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