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In the year following the military coup in Myanmar (map), churches “became targets of attacks not because of their religious affiliation but because of their being with the people,” said Father Raymond Kyaw Aung. “The military soldie…
Read MoreFebruary 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is also the 26th World Day for Consecrated Life, a commemoration instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997.
Read More“May the Lord hear our prayers,” said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. “My He accept our prayers! May fasting and penance be stronger than any modern weapon! May God let peace descend …
Read MoreThe Journal of Moral Theology has published the keynote address delivered by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago at a 2021 conference on Laudato si’, the papal encyclical on care for our common home.
The encyclical, he said, needs to “be u…
Read MoreReligious sisters and consecrated women are the subject of the February papal prayer intention.
“I exhort them to keep working and to have an impact with the poor, with the marginalized, with all those who are enslaved by traffickers,” …
Read MoreKing Abdullah II of Jordan received St. John Paul II (2000), Pope Benedict XVI (2009), and Pope Francis (2014) during their apostolic journeys to the Holy Land.
Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa of Jerusalem recently told King Abdullah that &…
Read MoreGunmen on motorcycles murdered William Siraj, an Anglican pastor, as he was riding home from church in Peshawar, a city of 2 million in northwestern Pakistan (map).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Due to the hard work and prayers of a few committed people, a Catholic school not only survived, but it was transformed.
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Black Catholics, Brazil, Church in the Americas, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Racial justice, Racism, Rio de Janeiro |
The brutal beating to death of a Congolese refugee at a beach kiosk in Rio de Janeiro has spurred outrage in Brazil.
Read MoreReading I Mal 3:1-4
Thus says the Lord GOD:
Lo, I am sending my messenger
to prepare the way before me;
And suddenly there will come to the temple
the Lord whom you seek,
And the messenger of the co…
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Cardinal Juan José Omella, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Spain |
After the bishops’ conference of Spain (CEE) refused to launch an independent commission to look into historic clerical abuse cases, the government gave a green light for Congress to launch its own commission.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | News, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction |
Fr. Boniface Hicks is a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he serves as director of spiritual life. In 2018 he became a founding contributor of the Saint Vincent Seminary Institute of Ministry Formation, where he offers teaching on the spiritual life and spiritual direction formation. An author and sought-after speaker and retreat leader, […]
Ethiopian and Eritrean troops are fighting against a separatist coalition in the Tigray War, which began in 2020.
“The region is literally destroyed, infrastructure, schools, churches, monasteries, mosques, some cemeteries, part of the cultur…
Read More“The primary responsibility for overseeing the admissions process to seminary belongs to the local bishop,” said a representative of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, following a report that transgender applicants had unwittingly been…
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked the faithful to send a message like the following to federal lawmakers: “As a Catholic, I believe we must hear and answer both the ‘cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ by safeguard…
Read MoreSpain’s bishops have “so far refused to set up an independent commission, despite acknowledging more than 200 existing abuse claims over the past 20 years,” according to the report.
A recent investigation by El País, the Madr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
Despite being immersed for over 30 years in the study of modern Polish history, I must confess that I’d never heard of the heroic Ulma family until recently. I’ll get to the circumstances of my […]
Read MoreBishop George Thomas of Las Vegas, Nevada has said that Catholic politicians who reject Church teaching on abortion should not present themselves for Communion. But he stopped short of suggesting that pro-abortion Catholics should be denied the Euchari…
Read MoreAn Italian appeals court has voided an arrest warrant for Gianluigi Torzi, a key figure in the Vatican’s finance trial.
Torzi, a broker who arranged the details of a London real-estate deal in which the Vatican lost an estimated €100 million, is…
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
[Dear Readers: In addition to this week’s poetry posting (“January” by Angela Olejnik; see below), the Poetry Room is pleased to present a special feature. This past weekend, Founding Editor of the Catholic Poetry Room Tim Bete hosted an online poetry …
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