Pope praises Salesians after watching Mass on TV
After reciting the Angelus prayer Jan. 30 with visitors in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis offered greetings to the men and women of the Salesian order, “who do so much good in the church.”
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After reciting the Angelus prayer Jan. 30 with visitors in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis offered greetings to the men and women of the Salesian order, “who do so much good in the church.”
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A young girl lights a candle at a Marian grotto in Pakistan. / Magdalena Wolnik.
Rome Newsroom, Jan 31, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).
An Anglican pastor was shot dead after church on Sunday in northwest Pakistan.Two gunmen on motorcycles ambushed a ca…
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two important religious liberty cases: There are two religious liberty cases before the federal courts that have much in common: (a) both evince a clear animus against Christianity, and (b) they emanat…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, lead, Munich, News |
According to the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI must apologize for his role in the sexual abuse scandal in the Church and accept his faults in the cover-up of cases.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | Everyday Miracles, Fausta Nalubega, Fr. Dominic Mwebe, Lori Hadacek Chaplin, Mercy For Life, News |
Fr. Dominic Mwebe, 87, is a priest and doctor to his Kampala, Uganda community. He’s also a hero to the many local children who he has put through school and college — 22 of whom are now priests. Fr. Dominic doesn’t like to advertise the exact numbers …
Read MoreThe essential problem we face in the Western world is the loss of reality. We have entered into a nihilistic view of the world in which nothing is what it is, where there is no such thing as “what something is.” According to this view, something only becomes what it is when we determine it. It is called the “plasticity of reality.” Everything is subject to man’s reshaping or designating of value.
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The so-called Synod on Synodality — officially, the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the theme of which is, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission” (Oct. 2021–Oct. 2023) — opened in Rome the weekend of […]
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Read More(In the midst of our troubled world, we must keep hope alive, and that includes a celebration of marriages, which is our most foundational foothold on the future. So may these joyful words from Father Weaver give you some glimmer of that hope. Editor) As a Catholic priest serving the faithful in Southwestern Ontario, administering[…]
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Read MoreRepresentatives from the two Eastern European nations invoke peace at special prayer service in Rome
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | Associated Press, Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Central America, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, Mexico, News, Remain in Mexico |
U.S. authorities expelled migrants more than 1.5 million times without an opportunity to claim asylum since March 2020 under the pandemic restrictions known as Title 42 authority, named for a 1944 public health law.
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What are Catholics to think when bishops forbid ancient liturgical practices but allow egregious abuses?
Last March, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng knelt in front of police in order to save protestors—an action that led to international recognition.
“I believe God gave me the courage,” she said nearly a year later. “I myself wouldn&r…
Read MoreUntil recently, Ukraine’s Orthodox faithful were divided into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchate), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, with only the first canonically…
Read MoreOfficer Matthew Schrenger was off duty when he prayed outside an abortion clinic in Louisville. The city’s police department then suspended him.
Read MoreOn January 29, Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh, OP, 41, was stabbed to death while hearing confessions; another Dominican religious who came to his aid was injured. Police have arrested a suspect, described in the report as “mentally unstable.”
Read MoreThe British Army killed 14 people in Derry, Ireland, on Bloody Sunday in 1972.
“As with many other tragedies in our history, the system frustrated the desire of families to get at the truth,” Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry preached at th…
Read MoreOn January 30, the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pope Francis delivered his Angelus address to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square, and reflected on Luke 4:21-30, the Gospel of the day.
Jesus “is not found by those who seek mirac…
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While pro-lifers rightly march against the evil of abortion, we must not forget those who have been killed in the name of medical science.
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, Cyprus, News, Orthodox Church, Vaccinations |
The head of Cyprus’s Orthodox Christian Church said Sunday that he will suspend a dozen priests from his diocese because they refused to heed his call to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Associated Press, Church in Asia, lead, murdered priest, News, Pakistan |
Pakistani police said they widened their manhunt Monday, searching for two unidentified assailants who shot and killed an Anglican priest and wounded another the previous day in the country’s northwest.
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