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Posted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Angelus, Catholic News Service, Haiti, Italy, News, Pope Francis, Sicily, Vatican, Vietnam |
Pope Francis called on world leaders to aid the people of Haiti as the country continues to descend into chaos due to widespread violence, economic instability and natural disasters.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Bishop Thomas Tobin, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Providence, News, Rhode Island, Traditionalists |
A Catholic priest who had been serving as pastor at a church in Providence is facing child pornography charges, according to Rhode Island State Police.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Associated Press, California, Catholic hospitals, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, News, Transgender |
The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision against a Catholic hospital that wouldn’t allow a transgender man to have a hysterectomy there.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, News, President Joe Biden |
Before arriving in Scotland for the U.N. climate conference, President Joe Biden had a private Mass celebrated for him in Rome to mark an important Catholic feast day.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, News, Pope Francis, President Joe Biden |
President Joe Biden reflected on his relationship with Pope Francis on Sunday as he neared the end of his visit to Rome, saying the pontiff has brought him “great solace” since the death of his son Beau more than six years ago.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, inculturation, Native Americans, News, Religious orders |
There were at least 16 Indian boarding schools in Minnesota, most operated by religious orders. Many children were deeply traumatized by physical and sexual abuse, punished for speaking their language and stripped of their culture.
Read MoreA year after getting a new archbishop, Catholics in Lyon (France) are still trying to restore a sense of communion and fraternity that was damaged by previous episcopal mismanagement
Read MoreJesuits and other Ignatius-inspired communities in French-speaking Europe gather in Southern France for a big “family celebration”
Read MoreArchbishop Pascal Wintzer reacts to survey on sex abuse in the French Church, says women need to be part of a new way of ecclesial governance
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Abortion, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic news, Eucharistic coherence, Free Access, Homeless, Nancy Pelosi, News, President Joe Biden, United States, USCCB - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB Fall General Assembly 2021 |
Denver Newsroom, Oct 30, 2021 / 10:50 am In a new reflection, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone identifies a common thread linking abortion, homelessness, and the urgent need for Eucharistic revival among Catholics: a challenge to look beyond outward appearances and see “the deeper spiritual reality.” “As political issues, homelessness and abortion are treated
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Read MoreWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2021 / 14:08 pm Father James Jackson, a priest of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) and pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Providence, Rhode Island, was arrested at the parish on Oct. 30 and charged with three crimes related to child sexual abuse material. Jackson, 66, was charged
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Read MoreOn All Souls’ Day (and for the whole month of November) we focus on the Church Suffering: the Holy Souls in Purgatory, who are guaranteed to one day be in heaven, but who are now suffering and need our prayers.
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The Catholic Church celebrates the memory of all her saints in her liturgy today. Besides feast days such as this, the Church also honours the saints in several other ways in the liturgy. Anyone with an understanding of the distinction […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Eucharist, Jesus Christ, News, Pope St. John Paul II, Saint Josemaria Escriva, Saint Paul, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Solemnity of All Saints, St. John the Baptist, The Dispatch |
Several years ago I was having a mild altercation with one of my high school students. He ended his presentation with this thought: “The reason I hate Catholic school is that you priests and nuns […]
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Vatican City, Nov 1, 2021 / 06:05 am (CNA).
On All Saints’ Day, Pope Francis said true happiness does not come from being young, rich, or successful, as the world thinks, but from the counter-cultural idea to follow Jesus Christ.
“The world says that in order to have happiness you must be rich, powerful, always young and strong, and enjoy fame and success. Jesus overturns these criteria and makes a prophetic proclamation – and this is the prophetic dimension of holiness – true fullness of life is achieved by following him, by putting his Word into practice,” the pope said Nov. 1.
Pope Francis gave a special Angelus address for the Solemnity of All Saints, celebrated by the Catholic Church on Nov. 1. This year, the holy day, which has the obligation to attend Mass, was transferred to Sunday in the United States.
In his message before the traditional Marian prayer on Monday, Pope Francis spoke about the road we should walk to become saints: The Beatitudes.
The Beatitudes, he said, “show us the path that leads to the Kingdom of God and to happiness: the path of humility, compassion, meekness, justice and peace.”
He also noted that the Beatitudes are addressed “to the poor, the afflicted, those who hunger for justice.”
“And this means being poor inside, hollowing oneself to make room for God,” he advised. “Those who believe themselves to be rich, successful and secure base everything on themselves and close themselves off from God and their brothers and sisters, while those who know that they are poor and not self-sufficient remain open to God and to their neighbor.”
The poor in spirit find joy, he said, explaining what Christian joy is and is not.
“The joy of the Christian,” Francis said, “is not a fleeting emotion or a simple human optimism, but the certainty of being able to face every situation under God’s loving gaze, with the courage and strength that come from him.”
He said this is the joy the saints give witness to, a joy experienced even in the midst of trials and suffering.
The pope also emphasized the importance of joy for the Church, because without it the faith becomes “a rigorous and oppressive exercise.”
“A desert Father said that sadness is ‘a worm that burrows into the heart,’ which corrodes life,” Pope Francis said, encouraging everyone to ask themselves if they are a joyful Christian or if they are “dull, sad people, with a funeral face?”
“Let us remember: there is no holiness without joy,” he underlined.
Francis also explained that holiness is not “a life plan” which people can create themselves based only on effort and renunciation, but that it consists “above all in the joyful discovery of being God’s beloved sons and daughters.”
“It is not a human achievement, it is a gift we receive: we are holy because God, who is the Holy One, comes to dwell in our lives,” he said. “For this we are blessed.”
After the Angelus, Pope Francis greeted the participants of Rome’s annual “Saints’ Run,” a 10km race which starts and ends on the road in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
He also noted that on Nov. 2 he will celebrate Mass for the Feast of All Souls’ Day at the French Military Cemetery in Rome.
“I wish you all a happy feast of the saints, in the spiritual company of all the saints,” he said.
Posted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | News, Nota in Brevis |
It would be unseemly for me to speak about Protestantism in any serious way, but I believe I can say one thing with some assurance; for I think I know why Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. It’s simple, really. Martin Luther, I am sure, became convinced that Catholicism doesn’t work, that is to say,[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured Highlights, News, Saints |
A blessed solemnity of All Saints to all our readers, a feast that goes back to its official institution by Pope Gregory III (731 – 741) as a commemoration of all the countless martyrs who could not have their own particular day. This was during what we know ironically as the ‘dark ages’, when there was[…]
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