Select Page
Pope Francis, pictured Oct. 15, 2014. Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk. / null
Vatican City, Oct 29, 2021 / 02:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has a packed schedule over the next 24 hours as he meets the leaders of three countries who, when taken tog…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19, Eastern Europe, News, Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Ukraine |
Ukraine is suffering through a surge in coronavirus infections, along with other parts of Eastern Europe and Russia.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, Associated Press, Church in the US, Hurricane, News |
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that it inflated damage estimates for federal recovery money after Hurricane Katrina.
Read MoreReading I Rom 9:1-5
Brothers and sisters:
I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie;
my conscience joins with the Holy Spirit in bearing me witness
that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart.
For I could wish that I my…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, COVID-19, Diocese of La Crosse, News |
La Crosse Bishop William Patrick Callahan has contracted COVID-19, according to a church official.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church and State, Church in the US, faith and religion, News, Pew Research Center, Poll |
Nearly three times as many Americans favor the federal government enforcing the separation of church and state than want to see the government stop doing so.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Faustina Kowalska, Featured, News, prayers for the dead, Purgatory, Saints |
On the evening of All Souls Day, November 2, 1936, St. Faustina went to the cemetery. After praying there for a while, she went to the chapel and prayed to “gain the indulgences,” as she writes in her Diary (748). The indulgences for which she prayed are a special gift the Church offers every year […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Jeffrey Sachs, News, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Poverty, Vatican |
Extreme deprivation could be ended “basically immediately,” said U.S. economist and member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Jeffrey D. Sachs.
Read More“In the run-up to Friday’s meeting between President Biden and Pope Francis, much of the media conversation has focused on how these two very famous Catholics — who share many of the same concerns for the world — are on the same political t…
Read MoreCardinal Raymond Burke has agued that the US episcopal conference should give support to bishops who do their pastoral duty “by correcting the scandal of Catholic politicians who publicly and obstinately promoted procured abortion.”
In a s…
The statement concludes, “Christians are encouraged to speak of being baptized into the Christian Church, into the Christian faith, or into Christ. They may say that they were baptized in the Catholic or Lutheran Church but are discouraged from …
Read MoreIn a diplomatic note leaked in June, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, registered opposition to proposed legislation, in part because it had the potential to criminalize the articulation of Ch…
Read More“Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed our deep vulnerability,” Pope Francis said, as he offered the “Thought for the Day” for BBC on October 29.
The papal address was centered on the UN climate-change conferen…
Voters in Africa’s largest nation will elect a new president in 2023. The current president, Muhammadu Buhari, has been elected to two terms, and is not eligible to run for a third.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | All Saints Day, All Soul's Day, Apostolic Penitentiary, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Death and dying, Indulgences, News, Purgatory, Vatican |
ROME — With the COVID-19 pandemic still underway and with restrictions on gatherings still in place in some countries, the Vatican has again extended the period of time when people can earn a plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery and praying for the souls of the faithful in purgatory. Cardinal […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, faith and politics, News, Pope Francis, President Joe Biden, Vatican |
Just hours after he arrives in Rome, President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the world’s two most notable Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty.
Read MorePope Francis reads his message broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Oct. 29, 2021. / Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel.
Vatican City, Oct 29, 2021 / 01:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Friday urged participants in a crunch United Nations climate s…
US President Joe Biden told reporters that Pope Francis advised him to continue receiving Communion, despite his support for unrestricted abortion.
“We just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receivin…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in India, lead, Narendra Modi, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis |
Friday and Saturday could be described as the most relevant for Pope Francis’s pontificate diplomatically speaking, with meetings with U.S president Joe Biden, South Korea’s Moon Jae-in, and India’s Prime Minister Narenda Modi.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Church in Europe, ddl Zan, homotransphobia, Italian politics, lead, News, Vatican |
Months of controversy in Italian politics reached a climax Wednesday when a heavily debated anti-homotransphobia bill, which also garnered unprecedented objections from the Vatican, was defeated during a secret vote in the Italian senate.
Read More
Recent Comments