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Ed Cox, the op-ed’s author, is chair of the New York Republican Party, as well as founding director of Student Sponsor Partners, which provides scholarships for private school tuition for low-income students.
Read MoreIn a ruling in favor of 35 service members from “the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant branches of Christianity” who lodged religious objections to the Covid vaccine, a federal district court noted that “the Navy is willing t…
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Father Mike Schmitz is the host of the podcast "the Bible in a Year," produced by Ascension. / Courtesy of Ascension
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 7, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Father Mike Schmitz recently marked two major milestones, on…
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | News, United Kingdom |
A parish in Nottingham has asked Catholics not to attend Mass if they are “not vaccinated and/or won’t wear a mask.” The Parish of the Holy Family in the east of the city issued the request most recently in a newsletter on Boxing Day. Under the heading “Keeping safe,” the parish asked Massgoers to use
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The Mass of the Anglican Ordinariate may be what was the intended outcome of the Second Vatican Council.
Many Eastern Christians, in accord with the Julian calendar, observe Christmas on January 7.
Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Porfirije called for “respect of reasonable measures and recommendations of governments and other authorities in the states…
Read More“It is now clear that Pope Francis directed Vatican officials in 2019 to pay a businessman millions of dollars, to extricate the Vatican from its complicated [London] property transaction, which by that time had gone somewhat sideways,” The…
Read MoreArchbishop Charles Scicluna instructed Father David Muscat to stop making “inflammatory and hurtful comments” or face suspension after the priest “claimed that being gay was worse than being possessed,” according to the Times of…
Read MoreMillions of Philippine Catholics typically take part in a procession on January 9, the feast of the Black Nazarene, and venerate the image in Quiapo Church (the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene). Citing Covid concerns, the Philippine government ha…
Read MoreIn his Angelus address (video) on January 6, the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, Pope Francis reflected on the prostration of the Magi before the child Jesus.
If “we abandon our pretense of self-sufficiency, if we make ourselves little …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Catholics who yearn to attend a reverent Mass may find that the Ordinariate Form (Anglican Use) may just be the home they are looking for.
Reading I 1 Jn 5:5-13
Beloved:
Who indeed is the victor over the world
but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ,
not by water alone, but by water and Blood….
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, Missionaries of Charity, News |
A group of Missionaries of Charity were evicted from a facility in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the latest move against the religious order founded by St. Mother Teresa.
Read More“The complete ban on so-called conversion therapies has received Royal Assent [from Queen Elizabeth II],” said David Lametti, Canada’s justice minister. “This is a victory for Canada . . . This is what making history feels like….
Read MoreOn January 6, Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord in St. Peter’s Basilica (video, booklet).
“Like the Magi, let us lift up our eyes, listen to the desire lodged in our hearts, and follow the sta…
Read MoreThe Monastery of Saint Elian is a Syriac Catholic monastery in Al-Qaryatayn, a town of 14,000 in Homs Governorate in Syria (map).
In 2015, ISIS demolished the 5th-century monastery and abducted its superior, Father Jacques Mourad; five months later,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Church in Europe, Gays, lead, LGBT, Malta, News |
A Catholic priest in Malta is under fire for what his archbishop called “inflammatory and hurtful comments” against gay people.
Read MoreEchoing a front-page Vatican newspaper op-ed, the USCCB has welcomed a joint statement by China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US on preventing nuclear war.
Bishop David Malloy of Rockford (IL), chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Int…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Church in the US, Diocese of Shreveport, France, lead, News, Sainthood |
When Chris Charles Scott directed a documentary about five French priests that cared for the sick through the 1873 yellow fever epidemic in Shreveport he never expected that it would have a spot in this year’s Cannes World Film Festival.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Love, Mother Angelica, News, Sophia Excerpts |
Receiving correction hurts us right in the heart, but it’s the secret of holiness. I don’t mean you need to go around griping at people and letting everybody gripe at you. What I’m saying is that God Himself allows us to be corrected. What do you expect love to do? Love corrects! When your parents […]
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