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“Meanwhile, a Colorado federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction against the University of Colorado School of Medicine, which threatened to fire one of its Catholic faculty physicians and expel a Buddhist medical student for refusing to t…
Read MoreThe 10th Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage took place on October 29-31 and included Mass celebrated at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of Great Britain, said, “There’s been…
Read MoreOn the occasion of COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the Vatican Publishing House is publishing “The Laudato Si’ Reader: An Alliance of Care for Our Common Home.” The new book includes commentary by UN Secretary Gen…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Last month I wrote a piece entitled Unclean! Unclean! in which I criticized the decision of the Archbishop of Moncton to divide his flock between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, and to refuse any longer to nourish the latter with sacramental graces. That piece lasted some thirty-six hours before it was removed. Apparently, one doesn’t […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The Church has an ancient storehouse of vast treasures, old and yet fresh as the morning dew. Most of us have forgotten them, these treasures which used to be in the daily lives of the simplest peasant in medieval Europe. The feasts and fasts, commemorations, processions, prayers, and hymns that make up the traditional liturgical […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Editor's Corner, News |
There is a science – on might more properly term it an art – to moral discernment in our Church’s tradition, and we offer it here as a guide for our readers, for their own conscience, as we make our way ‘by the tangle of our wits’ through the labyrinth of life. Any voluntary decision[…]
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Read MoreWASHINGTON – As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to consider the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Build Back Better Act, six bishop chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have written a letter to Co…
Read MoreReading I Rom 13:8-10
Brothers and sisters:
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, You shall not commit adultery;
you shall not kill;
you shall not ste…
In November 2 edition, L’Osservatore Romano devoted its most prominent front-page coverage to the pledge to end deforestation by 2030 made at COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.“The ecocide of the forests, the lungs of the…
Read MoreDuring his Angelus address on November 1, All Saints Day, Pope Francis reflected on Matthew 5:1-12, the Gospel of the day. He concluded, “May the Holy Virgin give us something of her soul, that blessed soul that joyfully magnified the Lord, who …
Read MoreCardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, addressed a message in the Pope’s name to the director-general the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization for the organization’s two-day forum, “Acting Together t…
Read MoreOn All Souls Day, Pope Francis offered Mass at the French military cemetery in Rome (video).“I am sure that all those who went in goodwill, called by the Fatherland to defend it, are with the Lord,” the Pope preached. “But do we, who…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Climate change, COP26, Glasgow, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
ROME – According to Pope Francis, there’s no time to wait when it comes to addressing the climate change, because there are too many people who are suffering from the crisis. To address it, he argued, “urgent and courageous action is needed.” The wounds inflicted upon humanity by the dual […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | child protection, Chile, Church in the Americas, Juan Carlos Cruz, lead, News, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae |
Chilean clerical abuse survivor Juan Carlos Cruz has written a formal complaint to the rector of the private Catholic school he attended in Santiago over the appointment of a member of a scandal-ridden lay group to a prominent leadership role.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
By any worldly measure, 1946 was an annus horribilis in Poland. With the exceptions of Cracow and Lodz, every Polish city lay in ruins. The homeless and displaced numbered in the millions. As a ruthless […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Dominicans, lead, News, Poland |
Dominicans in Poland have confirmed the Vatican has yet to respond to a Sept. 15 report on a sect-like youth ministry run by a priest accused of sexual abuse in the late 1990’s.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Benjamin D. Carson. Deo Gratias I stop to watch as a choir of birds rises out of the cemetery and tucks into the pews of a winter-bare maple —bending to hear each note, swaying to both chorus and…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
New Orleans, Day Two Any pilgrim to New Orleans probably feels as though one day in this great city is not enough. So, it is a fantastic thing to continue our New Orleans pilgrimage into a second day. Recall that all pilgrimages intend to deepen our relationship with Jesus, leading us toward our eternal, heavenly […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
“The social order is not only a flowering out into society of Christianity lived within souls. It is also a safeguard against the paganism which always persists inside of us. It is not the sign of the triumph of the new man, but it is rather one of the necessary aspects of the eternal war […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
He descended into hell… . Few lines of the Apostles Creed are as overlooked as this one. Seen alone, the truth expressed in this simple line is shocking: the Church teaches that Christ went to hell. Why would the Church say such a thing? It seems utterly scandalous. But then so is the reality of […]
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