Pope Francis Calls for ‘Process of Conversion’ in the Church to Prevent All Forms of Abuse
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new survey that is seriously flawed: The pollsters were mostly wrong again on Election Day—in some cases by a huge margin—thus making a mockery of psephology, the statistical study of elections. It d…
Read MoreDuring their recent “ad limina” visits to Rome, Poland’s Catholic bishops complained that recent sanctions against their confreres who botched abuse cases are too harsh and unfair
Read MoreSr. Raffaella Petrini meets Pope Francis. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Nov 4, 2021 / 08:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Thursday appointed Franciscan Sister Raffaella Petrini to the second-ranking position in the government of the Vatican City St…
There has never been a papal visit to anywhere that has been anything like what will unfold when Pope Francis comes to Canada — a papal journey of sorrow, mourning and repentance holding forth a thin candle of hope up against the flood of our own Catho…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | All Soul's Day, Catholic News Service, College of Cardinals, News, Pope Francis, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican |
Maturing in the Christian life means learning to trust God and hang on to hope even when daily trials tempt one to complain, Pope Francis said.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, Eucharist, News, USCCB |
The much-awaited proposed statement on the Eucharist from the U.S. bishops is striving for a consensus that may be hard to come by, said a longtime church journalist.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Archdiocese of Chicago, Associated Press, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Illinois, News |
A defrocked Chicago priest who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children was released from an Illinois prison last month and is now back living in the city, a state agency says.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Abortion, Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, U.S. Congress, USCCB |
The proposed Build Back Better Act has much-needed provisions “uplifting the common good,” but “it is completely unacceptable” the current House version of the bill “expands taxpayer funding of abortion,” said the U.S. bishops.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Biden Administration, Catholic Charities, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, U.S.-Mexico border |
Biden took office on Jan. 20. Almost immediately, numbers of migrants exceeded expectations. Plans outlined in a December document to fully resume asylum processing at land crossings were soon overtaken by events.
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“If I forget thee, Jerusalem,” cries the Psalmist, “may my right hand forget its skill!” (Ps 137:5). “Men have forgotten God,” Solzhenitsyn observed of the Soviet regime; “that’s why all this has happened.” In his 1982 article “Ship of Fools,” […]
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Read MorePope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for recently deceased cardinals and bishops, Nov. 4, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News/Vatican Pool.
Vatican City, Nov 4, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday for the …
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death row, News, Religious Sisters |
After Sister Barbara Battista, a Catholic nun staunchly opposed to the death penalty, agreed to accompany a condemned man at his execution in federal prison, she wondered doubtfully, “Am I just part of this whole killing machine?”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, John Carr, News, Northern Ireland |
Former USCCB official John Carr was one of several panelists at a virtual seminar, “Religious Peacebuilding Amid Political Polarization: A U.S.-Northern Ireland Dialogue.”
Read MorePope Francis prays with journalists on the papal flight en route to South Korea on Aug. 14, 2014. / Alan Holdren/CNA.
Vatican City, Nov 4, 2021 / 06:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said Thursday that the Church is called to engage in a process of conv…
Cardinal George Pell gives an interview to EWTN News in Rome, Italy, on Dec. 9, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. / null
Rome Newsroom, Nov 4, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).
Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s former economy czar, has said that if his of…
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Bishop Kevin Rhoades, Catholic News Service, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, Eucharist, News, second, USCCB |
At their June assembly, when the U.S. bishops debated a proposal to draft a statement on the Eucharist, some of the bishops asked whether it would address denying Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion.
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In a remake of “Highway to Heaven,” debuting Saturday, Jill Scott is an angel sent from heaven.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, Depression, Free Access, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican News |
Vatican City, Nov 3, 2021 / 09:00 am Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to pray in November for people suffering from depression or burnout, that they might find the support they need. He made the appeal in his November prayer intention, shared with an accompanying video on Nov. 3. “We pray that
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