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Born in 1940, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was installed in 1991 as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, and holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches. He was recently hospitalized with Covid.
Read MoreA Vatican spokesman announced on December 30 that Pope Francis would not visit the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square the following day, in order to “avoid gatherings and the consequent risk of contagion to Covid-19.” The Pope is st…
Read More“No secret negotiations are being held, no unification is planned, but the fact that the two largest Christian churches should interact is now quite obvious,” said Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Depar…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | Archdiocese of Bombay, Church in Asia, Church in India, clerical sexual abuse, India, lead, Mumbai, News |
A priest in India has been convicted of abusing a teenage boy in 2015.
Read MoreSouth African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his efforts against apartheid, died on December 26 at the age of 90 (Encyclopaedia Britannica article).
Pope Francis sent condolences following Tutu&…
Read More“With God’s grace, and it is only by God’s grace, we can still put an end to the scourge of abortion in our country by making it unnecessary, no matter what the law says,” Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, preached at Vancouver…
Read MorePope Francis and other Christian leaders have sent messages to the 44th European Taizé youth meeting, which is taking place online (currently) and in Turin (in July). The Taizé Community, an ecumenical French monastic community, was founded …
Read MoreSister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, a Colombian missionary sister in Mali (map), was kidnapped in 2017 and released in October.
“They asked me to repeat bits of Muslim prayers, to wear Islamic-style garments, but I always let it be known that I w…
Read MoreArchbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Kraków has decreed that “priests as well as lay people working in the diocese must not be alone with a minor in the latter’s home without the parents’ permission, welcome minors into their own hom…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Before we ring in the New Year, let’s wring out the problems that continue to plague us.
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
2022 just might be the year that we finally free ourselves from our COVID shackles.
Posted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Flooding, lead, Natural disasters, News |
Devastated by heavy rains since November, the southern part of Bahia State in Brazil is facing one of its worst humanitarian crisis in history, with more than 90,000 people displaced.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, U.S. bishops, USCCB |
President Joe Biden, immigration, COVID-19 and ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. All four topics were crucial to the story of the American Catholic Church a year ago, and with a trove of new developments, were mainstays once again in 2021.
Read MoreReading I 1 Jn 2:18-21
Children, it is the last hour;
and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming,
so now many antichrists have appeared.
Thus we know this is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really …
Pope Francis, who was scheduled to preside at the singing of the Te Deum in St. Peter’s basilica on December 31, bowed out of that role, but delivered a homily at the annual service.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | 2021, 2022, Between the Sundays, expectations, gift, Living the Faith, New Year's resolutions, News, present moment, Resolution, suffering |
Image: Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash “Let us together pledge that no matter what 2022 brings, we are going to use it to become saints.“ A BIT OF A REPEAT? It’s easy to give advice as one year ends and another begins. But what about looking…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2021 | Epiphany, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Scripture Speaks |
In Sunday’s Gospel, magi “from the east” ask, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews?” Just by asking this question, they herald the New Light that has dawned on all men. Gospel (Read Mt 2:1-12) St. Matthew tells us that after Jesus’ birth, an event loaded with significance for the whole world took place. “Magi from […]
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