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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | Brazil, Church in the Americas, Dominicans, lead, News |
A street in São Paulo, which had been named after an infamous torturer was renamed on September 25 after Frei Tito de Alencar Lima, a Dominican brother who devoted his life to struggle against the regime.
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Providing significant help even in the midst of a pandemic, contributions in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to the annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious priests, brothers and sisters totaled $420,292 in 2020-2021, and was the fourth largest total in the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | Local News, News |
Providing significant help even in the midst of a pandemic, contributions in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to the annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious priests, brothers and sisters totaled $420,292 in 2020-2021, and was the fourth largest total in the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
The Pharisees ask Jesus a question about divorce. Why did He answer their question with one of His own? Gospel (Read Mk 10:2-16) In Mk 10:1, we read that Jesus “went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to Him again.” This tells us that Jesus left the northern territory of Galilee […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | 2021, America's bishops, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Carlin, denounced Communism (Divini Redemptoris), Fr. James Martin S.J., How Homosexuality Harms the Church, Nazism (Mit brennender Sorge), News, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XI, The Catholic Thing, USCCB |
David Carlin wants a papal re-statement of Church teaching on homosexuality but doubts it will happen, or that America’s bishops will do so.
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Few things are as beautiful as two hands woven together. There’s the feel of another’s fingers warming your own, and yet the contrast between their hand’s work and your own. Your hands tell where you’ve been, the battles you’ve fought, the work you’ve done. What kind of story do your hands tell? I wonder what […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Despite being vaccinated and taking other precautions, 46 out of 294 people on a Lourdes pilgrimage contracted COVID, but no…
The post Calculated risk: Lourdes during COVID appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
A Catholic priest has described last Sunday’s attacks on villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State as a “massacre” against native…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | contrition, Encountering the Word, forgiveness, Mercy, News, Old Testament, Psalms, Scripture |
Encountering the Word — Your Daily Bible Verses Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! (Psalm 51:1-2) Print …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
Thousands of people turned out Wednesday in Wichita to honor a Kansas priest as he was laid to rest 70…
The post Fr. Kapaun buried in Kansas appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MoreHere various approaches are at one in overlooking the created dimension of nature and in misunderstanding its integrity. For some,…
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Read MoreToday is the memorial of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, more popularly known as “the Little Flower.” Although just an obscure cloistered Carmelite nun, she has had universal appeal since her death in 1897. St. Therese is the patrones…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
In our fast-paced world and life, we hear much about man’s achievements, his triumphs and successes which have transformed the world. We see man’s ability to create and build, to innovate and improve human life with his many inventions. Man seems able to control his own life and future, “I am the king of my […]
Read More“Philomela” A lark sings through the hellish gloom; Calls out to her Author. Praising, loving, she cries her tune, Piercing my ears to bother. A lonely cry, muffled and sweet, Echoes through dark and rain, Rises to join the thronging fleet Of souls which do proclaim. I hear “my Lord” loved and outspread;[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | Features, Human Life Review, interview, Maria McFadden Maffucci, News, prolife movement |
In Edward Elgar: A Creative Life (1987), Jerrold Northrop Moore wrote of the earliest musical formation of the great English composer and, indeed, all children: Before birth, in the dark womb, the baby’s first consciousness […]
Read MoreA new study by the Andres Bello Catholic University has found the poverty rate in Venezuela at a shocking 94.5%, with more than three-fourths of the country’s families living in what the economic survey classified as “extreme” poverty…
Read MoreA New Jersey judge has ruled that the Archdiocese of Newark could be responsible for payment of abuse claims against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. While lawyers for the archdiocese argued that McCarrick was acting “outside the scope of his …
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