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Bishop William Wack of Pensacola–Tallahassee recently wrote a pastoral letter on evangelization in which he called for “inviting everyone within our 18 counties to consider joining us in full communion with the Catholic Church.”
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In the oral arguments in the much-anticipated Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization heard in the Supreme Court Wednesday, there was little discussion of the details of abortion. Instead, the status of the Court’s major precedents and the Court’s power and influence in American life were the main subjects. The immediate subject […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
In anticipation of The Catholic University of America’s obligations and observations regarding Black History Month, an icon entitled “Mama” by artist Kelly Latimore was displayed outside Mary, Mirror of Justice Chapel at the Columbus School of Law—and, like the pachamama, soon disappeared. Whether this was an act that mirrored justice or injustice may be a […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Portugal |
The lay head of a new Portuguese Catholic Church committee on child sex abuse urged victims Thursday to come forward but stressed his group’s task is to study what has happened, not launch formal investigations.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, COVID restrictions, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City, News |
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is extending his order requiring COVID-19 vaccines to include teachers and staff at private and religious schools.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Associated Press, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Ohio |
A Catholic priest in Ohio on Thursday pleaded guilty to raping an altar boy during a three-year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, bioethics, Catholic Medical Association, Church in Europe, embryonic stem cell research, Embryos, Faith and Science, News |
Scientists are using human stem cells to create a structure that mimics a pre-embryo and can serve as a research alternative to a real one. They say these “blastoids” provide an efficient, ethical way to study human development and pursue biomedical discoveries in fertility and contraception. The latest effort was […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON – On December 2, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as “Remain in Mexico,” would restart the week of December 6. This announcement follows an agreement reached bet…
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, priest
Reading I Is 29:17-24
Thus says the Lord GOD:
But a very little while,
and Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard,
and the orchard be regarded as a forest!
On that day…
Turkish troops invaded and occupied the northern third of Cyprus in 1974. On the first day of an apostolic journey to Cyprus and Greece, during his address to political leaders and members of the diplomatic corps, Pope Francis called on the nation to…
Read MoreOn the first day of his apostolic journey to Cyprus and Greece, during which he has put a focus on migration, Pope Francis addressed clergy, religious, catechists, and lay movements at the Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace in Nicosia, the natio…
Read MoreOn December 1, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, which offers legal protection to most unborn children after the 15th week of pregnancy. Some justices appeared willing to uph…
Read MoreEthiopian and Eritrean troops are fighting against a rebel coalition (the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces) in the Tigray War, which began in November 2020.
“Like all Tigrayans, the Catholic Church has been serio…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Breaking News, Church in Europe, Cyprus, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus |
On his second day in Cyprus, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for the island’s Catholic community and said the only way to truly recover from the tensions that still divide the country is to seek healing in Jesus together, as brothers and sisters.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Archdiocese of Detroit, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Michigan, News, school shooting |
A day after a tragic shooting claimed the lives of four Oxford High School students and forever changed the lives of countless others, community members were picking up the pieces.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Breaking News, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Cyprus, Greek Orthodox, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus |
Pope Francis met Friday with the leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Church with the aim of further mending an ideological and political rift between the Catholic West and the Orthodox East that dates back nearly a millennium.
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Pope Francis addresses Orthodox bishops in the Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec. 3, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Rome Newsroom, Dec 3, 2021 / 01:15 am (CNA).
In a meeting with Orthodox bishops in Cyprus on Friday, Pope Francis expressed the…
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Church in Europe, lead, News, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
According to the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Pope Francis might visit Ukraine in the near future.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Asylum, Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Church in the Americas, Church in the US, HOPE Border Institute, Immigration, lead, News, Remain in Mexico |
The Biden administration announced yesterday that it reached an agreement with Mexico to restart a policy that forces migrants to wait in Mexico until immigration officials rule on their asylum claim.
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History by James G Clark Yale UP, £25, 689 pages ________ Apart from the Black Death plague pandemic of the 1340s, no event in the years between the Norman Conquest and the Civil War brought more of a sudden or far-reaching change to England’s social and religious life
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