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Pope Francis takes part in a moment of reflection for the opening of the synodal path at the Vatican’s New Synod Hall, Oct. 9, 2021. / Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel.
Vatican City, Oct 29, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).
The Vatican announc…
The intellectual muscle of the Canadian Catholic Church has been recalibrated by combining Regis College and the University of St. Michael’s College into a federation just one year after negotiations between the two Toronto graduate schools began.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Cardinal Raymond Burke, Catholic Church, Catholic news, Free Access, Holy Communion debate, News, United States |
Rome Newsroom, Oct 29, 2021 / 04:25 am On the eve of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, a U.S. cardinal said that Catholic bishops have a “sacred duty” to apply canon law by advising pro-abortion politicians not to receive Holy Communion. In a 2,800-word statement issued on Oct. 28, Cardinal Raymond Burke recalled his efforts
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Speaking on BBC radio, Pope Francis has appealed for the world to take “an urgent change of direction” to preserve the planet for future generations. The Holy Father said on Thought for the Day, on BBC Radio 4, that COP26 – the 26th UN Climate Change Conference – could represent a “genuine moment of conversion”.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Apostolic Penitentiary, Catholic Church, Catholic news, Free Access, News, Plenary indulgences, prayer for the dead, Vatican, Vatican News |
Vatican City, Oct 28, 2021 / 07:12 am This year, the Vatican has decided once again to grant a plenary indulgence to Catholics who visit a cemetery to pray for the dead on any day in the month of November. In a typical year, the Church only grants this plenary indulgence for the souls in
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Bishop Philip Egan, Catholic Church, Catholic news, Catholic Schools, Diocese of Portsmouth, Free Access, Guernsey, News, United Kingdom |
Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, Oct 28, 2021 / 12:00 pm An English bishop has said that a proposed anti-discrimination law could force an island’s Catholic schools to close. In a letter dated Oct. 23, Bishop Philip Egan said that the new policy “puts all Catholic schools in Guernsey under threat.” The island in the English Channel, which
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Rome Newsroom, Oct 29, 2021 / 04:25 am (CNA).
On the eve of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, a U.S. cardinal said that Catholic bishops have a “sacred duty” to apply canon law by adv…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | BBC, Climate change, Glasgow, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis is not going to Glasgow for the United Nations conference on climate change, but that has not dwindled his commitment to the cause, as shown with a five-minute message to the BBC calling for “radical decisions.”
Read More“Even an act of Christian charity can be construed as a case of illegally attempted conversion,” Father Rocky Shah, public relations officer of the Diocese of Jhabua, said of the anti-conversion law in Madhya Pradesh. The central Indian sta…
Read MoreThe “decision to temporarily close places of worship and otherwise limit the size of gatherings, was rational, reasoned and defensible in the circumstances of an undeniable public health crisis,” the court said in its ruling.
Read MoreArchbishop Andrew Bellisario of Anchorage-Juneau has revoked Church recognition of Holy Rosary Academy, a non-diocesan school in the Catholic tradition, and one of the state’s most academically successful private schools. In an April letter, Ar…
Read More“It’s been so hard to go from an environment of female empowerment to someone telling me what I can and can’t do with my body,” said one student at Archbishop Riordan High School said in response to the presentation by Megan A…
Read MoreMary Yelenick of Pax Christi warned of the “perpetual loop of enrichment of military arms contractors,” and Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican’s nuncio to the UN, recently said that nuclear stockpiles should be “definitivel…
Read MoreThree former seminarians alleged the diocese did not respond appropriately to their allegations of coercion. Father James Cosgrove, 35, resigned on October 6, more than a year after the diocese first received the allegations.
Read MoreIn an upcoming ballot initiative, voters in Guernsey will decide whether to approve an anti-discrimination law. The wording of the law would make it illegal for Catholic schools to hire only Catholic administrators, Bishop Philip Egan warned.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
I try my best to temper my tech-skeptic instincts, but despite these efforts, I can’t help but consider all the worst possibilities of the coming “Metaverse.” In fact, the more I read about it, the more I think Christians should start preparing for it now, before we, along with our family and friends, are pulled […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The members of the Fairfax County and Loudoun County School Boards here in Northern Virginia are little more than pipsqueaks and perverts (there is one good member of the Loudoun County School Board. There are none at Fairfax). They are power-hungry, low-level bureaucratic hacks who don’t give two hoots for the children under their care […]
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