The Confusing New “Ministry of Catechist”
The recent establishment of a ministry of lay catechist raises more questions than it answers.
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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The recent establishment of a ministry of lay catechist raises more questions than it answers.
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, religious [In the Dioceses of the United States]
Reading I 1 Jn 4:7-10
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God and …
On January 2, the Second Sunday after Christmas, Pope Francis delivered an Angelus address in which he reflected on John 1:1-18, the Gospel of the day. (In some places, the Solemnity of the Epiphany is transferred from January 6 to the preceding Sunday…
Read MoreItalian President Sergio Mattarella has written a message to Pope Francis on the occasion of the World Day of Peace.
On December 16, the Pontiff received President Mattarella in the Apostolic Palace, and a Vatican spokesman offered a remarkable t…
Read MoreOn December 31 and January 1, the icon of the “Madonna who comes from the sea” was venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica.
According to Vatican News, in 1453, the year in which Constantinople fell to the Turks, the Marian image was pl…
Read MoreOn January 3, the Italian edition of the Vatican newspaper devoted front-page coverage to this story, with the headline “I bambini le principali vittime delle guerre: In aumento le violazioni dei diritti dei minori” [Children the principal…
Read MoreBishop Domenico Mogavero of Mazara del Vallo, Italy, has announced that godparents will no longer be named for baptisms in his Sicilian diocese. The move is designed to end the practice of naming godparents as a means of showing loyalty to organized-cr…
Read MoreCardinal Michael Fitzgerald, the retired president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, in the annual New Year’s honors list.
Cardinal Fitzgerald, …
The Pope’s January 2022 prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “We pray for all those suffering from religious discrimination and persecution; may their own rights and dignit…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | lead, London deal, New Year, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, synodality, Vatican, Vatican trial |
Francis is forever a pope of surprises, so as he barrels into 2022 there’s no telling what the New Year may bring. The fact we don’t know, however, doesn’t have to spoil the fun, because we can still guess.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, lead, Middle East, News, Raphael Sako |
Iraq’s top Catholic leader hopes the new year will help the citizens of this violence-torn country overcome divisions and tensions, and lead to the much needed reform of the country. “Peace is achieved when it becomes part of personal behavior,” wrote Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, lead, Liberation theology, News, Nobel Peace Prize, Pope Francis |
Pope Francis has sent a note to famed Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel after the latter suffered a health scare at the start of the New Year, wishing him well and offering prayers for a speedy recovery.
Read MoreAn April 2021 memo from Archbishop Pena Parra, the deputy Secretary of State, could shift the focus of the Vatican financial trial.
Archbishop Pena Parra—who occupies the sostituto post previously held by Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most prominent def…
The president of the Pontifical Council for Life has strongly endorsed Covid vaccination for children, despite statistical evidence that children are rarely infected with the disease.
Archbishop Vincent Paglia said that the vaccination of children sho…
Anti-Christian violence in India reached an all-time high in 2021, with 486 episodes recorded in the year, the United Christian Forum reports.
The acts of violence peaked toward the end of the year, with 180 incidents recorded in the last three months…
The percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Christians has dropped by 15% in the past 15 years, a new Pew survey shows. Over the same period of time, the percentage of “nones”—Americans who identify themselves with no relig…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Philosophy, suffering |
All people suffer in life and most of them cannot understand why. This is particularly problematic for the secular person, who we will loosely define as the kind of person who does not believe in anything beyond his senses, including God and an afterlife. Epicurus, the ancient Greek philosopher, was such a person. For Epicurus, […]
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Brad Miner reviews Steven Spielberg’s remake of ‘West Side Story,’ a thrilling version of an American classic – and surprisingly Catholic.
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Read MorePRINCE This letter [from Romeo] doth make good the friar’s words, Their course of love, the tidings of her death:…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | In the News, News |
A report from Students for Life details the group’s investigation of 784 Christian institutions, 237 of them Catholic, and found…
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