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Pope Francis’s Lenten message for 2022 is entitled “Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest, if we do not give up. So then, while we have the opportunity, let us do good to all” (Gal. 6:9-10).
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“Our priests and nuns have lodged more than 160 police complaints across the state against certain online, mainstream and social media platforms for portraying Catholic priests and nuns in a poor light,” said Father Michael Pulickal, secret…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian Orthodox faithful—including those who remain loyal to the Moscow patriarchate—are strongly opposed to the Russian invasion of their country, a new survey shows.
The survey by the Razumkov found that 65% of the Orthodox faithf…
Pekhon is located in Myanmar’s Shan State (map). The priests were arrested while attempted to bring aid to people displaced by fighting there.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The 1990’s was a great time to be a Catholic, but there were hidden troubles that we still need to confront today.
Reading I Jas 5:9-12
Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another,
that you may not be judged.
Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates.
Take as an example of hardship and patience, brothers and sisters,
the prophets…
“In connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on behalf of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, I strongly condemn the actions of Russia and Vladimir Putin, recognizing them as an unacceptable and shameful act of barbarism, directed again…
Read MoreThe vandalism took place at Sacred Heart Church in Milledgeville, the small town where famed American Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor lived.
Read MoreA theological symposium on the priesthood, organized by the Congregation for Bishops, recently concluded in Rome. Speakers noted that “the requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spir…
Read More“On behalf of my brother bishops, I echo the Holy Father’s call for prayer and fasting to end the war in Ukraine,” Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a February 24 st…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Universities, lead, Loyola University of Chicago, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
In an almost two-hour long dialogue with students from several Catholic universities from the Americas, Pope Francis condemned violence and conflict,
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in the US, lead, Nato, News, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Church |
Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia is calling on Catholics and “people of good will” in the U.S. to pray, be informed, and help Ukrainians however possible after Russia invaded the country early Thursday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Church in Europe, Elections, lead, Malta, News, Papal travel, Pope Francis |
Malta recently announced that it will hold general elections in late March, several months ahead of schedule and days before Pope Francis’s visit to the island nation, meaning the pope’s message risks being lost amid the political fallout.
Read More“Our country is in danger again,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said in an appeal issued February 24. “The treacherous enemy, despite his own commitments and assurances, breaking th…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Between the Sundays, News, Saint John Paul II, thanksgiving |
“There is always a reason to give thanks. Some days, the reasons are harder to see. But every day, a choice faces us: to complain or to give thanks.” While I was looking over the Sunday Mass readings for this upcoming eighth week in Ordinar…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Featured, Marriage & Family, News, Prayer & Spirituality |
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality |
After giving His disciples a stern warning against judging others (see 6:37-38), “Jesus told His disciples a parable, ‘Can a blind person guide a blind person?’” The answer to this is so obvious that we know something important has provoked it. He follows it with another question that is not so easily answered: “Why do you notice […]
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Commentary, News |
A combination of elite overproduction and Canada’s position in the shadow of the United States has produced an ideologically supercharged…
The post What led to Canada’s Crisis appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MoreWhy are we so exasperated by Ukrainian nationalism, by the desire of our brothers to speak, educate their children, and…
The post On Ukraine appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | In the News, News |
As Russia fired missiles on several Ukrainian cities and Russian troops reportedly landed in Odessa, the head of the Ukrainian…
The post Ukraine archbishop: God is with us appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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