Select Page
Reading I Is 25:6-10a
On this mountain the LORD of hosts
will provide for all peoples
A feast of rich food and choice wines,
juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
On this mountain he will destroy
the veil that veils all…
On December 1 at 10:00, the US Supreme Court is hearing 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. The Supreme Court a…
Read MoreThe Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life has announced that it will publish “five videos in which persons with disabilities, from different parts of the world, recount their experience of faith and affirm, ‘I am Church!&rsq…
Read MoreCiting UN statistics released over a month ago, L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its November 30 edition to “an increasingly dramatic situation that risks turning into a real humanitarian catastrophe i…
Read MoreAdvent and the Jewish Prophets By Dawn Beutner Why did Michelangelo paint seven Old Testament prophets in the Sistine Chapel? Because Jewish prophets such as Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah are important figures in the Jewish […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | News, The Dispatch |
Some suggestions for Christmas giving, in the form of books that amuse, inspire, educate or all-of-the-above: Prison Journal, Volume 3 – The High Court Frees an Innocent Man, by Cardinal George Pell (Ignatius Press). The […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Christmas, Church in Europe, European union, lead, News, War on Christmas |
ROME – On the first Monday of Advent, it was revealed the European Union was attempting to ban the use of the word “Christmas” in an internal dossier promoting “an inclusive communication.” The dossier recommended, among other things, to stop saying “Merry Christmas” and replace it with “Happy Holidays” and […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Church in Europe, Cyprus, Ecumenism, Greece, lead, Lesbos, migrants and refugees, Migration, News, Papal travel, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus |
Pope Francis’s agenda on migrants will be one of the major talking points during this week’s visit to Greece and Cyprus, both of which have are places where the pope’s message of welcome has had mixed reviews.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Catholic bishops, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Paraguay, South America |
In an open letter addressed to civil authorities, the bishops’ conference of Paraguay to respects the rights of the indigenous peoples, to carry out an agrarian reform and promote the common good, as the country struggles to overcome the pandemic.
Read MoreThe Pope’s December prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “Let us pray for the catechists, summoned to announce the Word of God: may they be its witnesses, with courage and …
Read More
“Let us not resist His first coming, so that we may not regret His second.” When we find ourselves harried and frazzled with all the things we think we need to do, we are resisting His birth in us. But when we surrender our expectations of how Advent should be celebrated, we allow room for Jesus to act in and through us as He wishes.
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Fun Stuff, News, Protestant/Other Christians |
Today my grandson Charlie was in a Christmas concert for kids four years olds. We are in South Carolina visiting my daughter Charlotte. The concert was held in a Baptist church and it’s been about 28 years are 29 since I’ve been in a Baptist church so it’s kind of interesting. We are in […]
The post Childhood Memories of Grapejuice Communion appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read More
As a classroom lesson in philosophy, I was fond of presenting to my students a pair of contradictory philosophies for them to scrutinize. It was my hope that they would recognize that both could not be true at the same time and then realize that one view must be wrong. The next step was to […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | 2021, Anthony Esolen, Columns, Epicurean Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, News, Not the Pleasantly Social but the Truth, plagiarist is a cheat, Providence College, spoilsports ruin everything, The Catholic Thing |
Anthony Esolen: To search for truth, and study it when it is found, and to champion it when it is under attack, is not the work of etiquette.
The post Not the Pleasantly Social, but the Truth appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Advent, Christmas, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Latin, liturgical year, News |
In the Latin, the word had an intriguing range of meanings. Adventus is a form of the verb advenio which is defined not only as arrive, come to, but also as develop, set in, and arise. Adventus itself also refers to an invasion, incursion, ripening, and appearance—all denotations that are rich with implications for the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Commentary, News |
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in what some say is the most consequential abortion case in a…
The post Today is the day for “Dobbs” appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Commentary, News |
Finding the way back to the ethic of thanksgiving, to the moral space articulated by George Washington in the first-ever…
The post Why every day should be Thanksgiving appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
The Catholic Archdiocese of Paris will present its plans for the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s interior next week after it…
The post Notre Dame de Paris, preserved? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MoreMan is the highest of creatures. The woman is the most sublime of ideals. God made for man a throne…
The post Man and Woman appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | In the News, News |
Francis is returning to Lesbos this week for the first time since that defining day of his papacy, making a…
The post Migrant “crisis” shaping papal trip to Greece appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read More
Recent Comments