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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Books, Christians in the Middle East, December 2021, Magazine, Middle East, News |
The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets by Janine di Giovanni PublicAffairs, £22.99, 272 pages ________ “This is a book about dying communities, but it is also about faith.” Janine di Giovanni has written a moving and insightful portrait of the Middle East’s shrinking Christian population, which
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Books, December 2021, liberalism, Magazine, News |
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley Bloomsbury, £20, 266 pages ________ In recent years, the “post-liberal” perspective has dominated religious thought and has also gained a foothold in political circles. The American Catholic journalist Sohrab Ahmari has recently brought such thinking to a wider audience. Now
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Books, Charles Dickens, December 2021, Fiction, Magazine, News |
Lily: A Tale of Revenge by Rose Tremain Chatto & Windus, £18.99, 288 pages ________ Rose Tremain is a prolific and prize-winning author, the recipient of the Whitbread and the Orange Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Costa and Booker. She is also an unpredictable one. Her work ranges across time from the Restoration to
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Books, December 2021, Magazine, News, Poetry, Rowan Williams |
Collected Poems Rowan Williams Carcanet, £15.99, 249 pages ________ The poetry of Rowan Williams is full of moments when the known world becomes translucent and lets in an unfamiliar light. Sometimes, this happens when watching someone – a child, perhaps – fall asleep. …sleepy yourself, impatient and resigned at once, and out of nowhere
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Advent, Best of Week, Bible, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Nativity, News |
It’s that time of year when those of us who know that there are treasures that surpass what the secular world has to offer, turn our attention to Advent preparation in anticipation of a celebration of Christmas. And part of that getting-ready involves diving into the accounts of the birth of Jesus. Why are we […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, News |
Women find men puzzling, and men say they don’t understand women. So the relation between the sexes is evidently a part of human life in which clear understanding is hard to come by. Academic expertise […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Our Sunday readings sum up in one word what people like us, who are waiting for the Lord’s return, should do while we wait: Prepare! Gospel (Read Lk 3:1-6) St. Luke carefully sets the historical stage for the momentous event he wants to describe. See how concrete both the civil and religious details are in this description. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Advent, Between the Sundays, Father Alfred Delp, Featured, Hope, Isaiah, light, Living the Faith, Messiah, News, trust |
Image: Photograph by Nicvandum | Shutterstock We light the candles, defiantly reminding the darkness that we know it will not be victorious. We can get bogged down by pessimism in this strange world. We are living through experiences which none of…
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O Come, Let Us Adore Him The rulers of the night take their turn in guarding their castles.And we owe greater honor to Jesus than to other rulers. L. Frassati, Mio Fratello Pier Giorgio, 145. Perhaps our belief in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest mystery of our […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Physics, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, G.K. Chesterton’s biography of St. Thomas Aquinas "The Dumb Ox", Inertia, Isaac Newton’s “First Law of Mechanics”, James V. Schall, Joseph R. Wood, motion of objects, News, Plato, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Catholic Thing, The Republic by Plato, Walking Thinking and Praying |
Joseph R. Wood: Faith and reason come together that we may see and understand reality in the fullness of truth, beauty, and goodness.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | In the News, News |
Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo of the Diocese of Oyo says he is concerned about the recent change of direction by…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Commentary, News |
There is ample evidence that Jesus was indeed born on the day we now call Christmas. The best proof comes…
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Arguing her case before the Supreme Court, Julie Rikelman, representing the abortion clinic challenging the Mississippi law, framed adoption as…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris, who had offered to step down to avoid…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
It’s easy for one to be blinded when faced with many pressing issues that are thrown upon us. There are so many responsibilities to handle and various commitments to fulfill. After a while, the intense pressures of what need to be accomplished can overwhelm our direction and priorities. Life can indeed be confusing. We have […]
Read MoreSt. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was born in the castle of Xavier in Navarre, Spain. In 1525 he went to Paris where he met St. Ignatius Loyola and with whom he received Holy Orders in Venice in 1537. In 1540 he was sent to evangelize India. He labored in…
Read MoreAlthough he has encouraged Catholics to be vaccinated against Covid, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has disclosed that he has not been vaccinated himself. He said that his physician told him “it’s probably not necessary for me to be vaccin…
Read More“Paul traversed Cyprus and went on to Rome,” Pope Francis reminded the bishops of the Orthodox Synod in Cyprus on December 3. “We are thus heirs of the same apostolic zeal.”
The Pontiff said that sharing the faith means “…
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Cardinal Marx, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, CIASE report, Michel Aupetit, News, Paris, Pope Francis, The Dispatch, Theodore McCarrick, Vatican |
Well, the Holy Father turned that one around right quickly. “That” is the resignation of the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, which the Press Office of the Holy See on Thursday told the world Pope […]
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