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Posted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, the pro-life movement, University of Notre Dame |
In an Oct. 27 address at the University of Notre Dame, Cardinal Gerhard Müller stressed the importance of proclaiming the human dignity of every person, from conception until natural death.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | All Soul's Day, cemetery, death, lead, News, peace, Pope Francis, Vatican, War |
Pope Francis on All Souls Day celebrated Mass at a French military cemetery, repeating his frequent appeals for an end to war and the arms trade, and urging attendees to never stop moving forward on the journey of life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Anglican Communion, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Church, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Church of England, converts, lead, News, Ordinariates |
A former Anglican bishop has been ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Vincent Nichols.
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Washington D.C., Nov 2, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
U.S. senators have celebrated the first anniversary of a declaration affirming that there is “no international right to abort…
The climate summit in Glasgow could represent the last chance for world leaders to agree a strategy to halt environmental degradation and climate change, the bishops of England and Wales have said. In a statement released to coincide with the start of the 12-day United Nations COP26 meeting, the bishops said if that God’s creation
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Bishop John Arnold, Bishop Richard Moth, Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, COP26, Environment Ecology, lead, News |
Bishops in the United Kingdom say the environmental crisis is a Catholic issue because it is a universal issue.
Read MoreDuring his Angelus address on October 31, the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pope Francis reflected on Mark 12:28-34, the Gospel of the day. “May the Virgin Mary, in whom the Word of God was made flesh, teach us to welcome the living word…
Read More“Christians and Hindus: Together bringing light into people’s lives in times of despair” is the theme of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue’s annual message to Hindus for the festival of Diwali (Encyclopaedia Bri…
Read MoreSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in, a Catholic, met with Pope Francis on October 29.The parties, according to a Vatican statement, discussed “the promotion of dialogue and reconciliation between Koreans. In this regard, hopes were shared that jo…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Damien Le Guay is a contemporary Catholic French thinker and author of two important, but unfortunately untranslated, books. Qu’avons-nous perdu en perdant la mort? (What Have We Lost in Losing Death?) questions how today’s funerary customs have erased death from human consciousness. La mort en cendres: la crémation aujourd’hui, que faut-il en penser? (Death in […]
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
She was only 24 years old when she fell asleep in the Lord—a tragic swimming accident in late September. Bright, kind, and beautiful, she had recently graduated from a Catholic college in California and was studying nursing at a university in Ohio. When our community heard what happened, we were shaken to lose such a […]
WASHINGTON – On October 29, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a new memorandum terminating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as “Remain in Mexico.” Secretary Mayorkas previously issued a memorandu…
Read MoreThe following are a selection of the readings that may be chosen for this day.
Reading I Wis 3:1-9
The souls of the just are in the hand of God,
and no torment shall touch them.
They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead;
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The theme of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops is For a synodal church: communion, participation, and mission. The synod began in Rome on October 9 and in local dioceses on October 17. The diocesan phase (originally scheduled t…
Read More“They did not seek martyrdom, because martyrdom is not sought after but endured,” Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, preached at the October 30 beatification of Blessed Francisco Cást…
Read MoreIndia, the world’s second most populous nation (1.33 billion people), is 73% Hindu, 15% Muslim, 5% Christian, 4% ethnic religionist, and 2% Sikh. The Vatican’s statement on the meeting between Pope Francis and India’s prime minister w…
Read MoreTimor-Leste (East Timor) (map), a Southeast Asian nation of 1.4 million, is 84% Catholic, 6% ethnic religionist, 5% Protestant, and 4% Muslim. Bishop Basílio do Nascimento of Baucau, who died on October 30 at the age of 71, was an important figure…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, COP26, Environment Ecology, Eric LeCompte, Laudato Si, Laudato Si' Movement, lead, News, Vatican |
When it comes to protecting God’s creation, leaders of Catholic movements who’re championing the participation of the laity in the COP26 Glasgow summit believe it’s time for a little less conversation and a lot of more action.
Read MoreIn the early 1900s, eugenics is seen as cutting-edge thought in human health and development. It pushes back against Darwin’s noble instinct and uses the coercive power of the State to limit undesirables by the restriction of marriage and even compulso…
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