N Ireland collective wins prestigious Turner Prize for art
An 11-person collective from Belfast that aims to transcend Northern Ireland’s political and religious divides won the UK’s prestigious Turner Prize for art on Wednesday.
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Posted by bcadmin | Dec 2, 2021 | Art, Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, News, Northern Ireland, Troubles |
An 11-person collective from Belfast that aims to transcend Northern Ireland’s political and religious divides won the UK’s prestigious Turner Prize for art on Wednesday.
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Brazil’s senate approved an evangelical former justice minister nominated by President Jair Bolsonaro to fill a vacant position on the supreme court, in what is seen as a nod to the conservative religious movement that helped bring him to power.
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In a new letter to U.S. congressional leaders, religious leaders call for changes to the child care and universal pre-kindergarten provisions in the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better Act that won’t indirectly exclude religious providers.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 2, 2021 | Church in Europe, Cyprus, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus |
Pope Francis arrives in Nicosia on Thursday, for what the government of Cyprus says constitutes an historic event.
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When Pope Francis visits Greece later this week, he will likely face challenges in getting his agenda on migrants across to a country that’s long been on the frontline of the European migration crisis.
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Two different agencies of Brazil’s bishops’ conference have condemned the arrest of 16 members of the Indigenous Akroá Gamella people on November 18
Read MoreThe Advent season is once again upon us. It is an invitation Christ extends to each one of us every year through this liturgical season of preparation for His birth at Christmas and His Second Coming. Advent is often eclipsed by the secular Christmas season going on around us, which means that too often we […]
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Stephen P. White: Fathers who don’t listen to children won’t understand them, and sheep who ignore the shepherd are soon lost.
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Read MoreI’m in trouble, she said to him. That was the first time in history that anyone had ever spoken of…
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In the Supreme Court’s first major abortion case in decades — which looked at Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15…
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Michael D. Breidenbach’s Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America provides a welcome, if chastening, case for the compatibility…
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The European Commission on Tuesday retracted internal communication guidelines that had proposed substituting the “Christmas period” with “holiday period” after…
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The disappearance of our civilization is not the only question that harasses us, although it towers over everything. Uncontrolled immigration…
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It is not a philosophy, principle, gimmick or psychology that provides the solid foundation on which we can build our life safely. Rather, it is the personal God and His Word, the Truth that provides the unshakeable basis for a safe passage through the storms of life. The Word of Jesus is the foundation of […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 2, 2021 | Homily of the Day, News |
It is not a philosophy, principle, gimmick or psychology that provides the solid foundation on which we can build our life safely. Rather, it is the personal God and His Word, the Truth that provides the unshakeable basis for a safe passage through the storms of life. The Word of Jesus is the foundation of […]
Read MorePope Francis offered his catechesis at the December 1, 2021, General Audience as a message for all engaged couples, as he reflected on St Joseph as a “just man” and “Mary’s betrothed spouse.”
Read MoreAccording to the previous liturgical calendar (1962), today is the feast of St. Bibiana who was martyred at Rome under Julian the Apostate in 363.
Read MoreLiberal Supreme Court justices employed fiery rhetoric—and betrayed a remarkable ignorance of science—as the Court heard arguments in the Dobbs case on December 1.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the Court would “survive t…
Pope Francis arrived in Cyprus on December 2, and told a welcoming crowd: “Walls do not and should not exist in the Catholic Church.”
The Pope’s arrival in Cyprus was the first stop in a trip that will take him next to Greece. He wil…
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