This Critical Moment
Today is a critical moment when we are given the opportunity to make a choice, to ask ourselves why we are Catholic.
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Posted by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Today is a critical moment when we are given the opportunity to make a choice, to ask ourselves why we are Catholic.
Pope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Feb. 23, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Feb 23, 2022 / 03:07 am (CNA).
Expressing great sadness at the worsening situation in Ukraine, Pope Francis asked world leaders …
Pope Francis’ general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Feb. 23, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Feb 23, 2022 / 03:07 am (CNA).
Expressing great sadness at the worsening situation in Ukraine, Pope Francis asked world leaders …
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, General Audience, lead, News, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican |
Pope Francis is urging all sides in the Russia-Ukraine dispute to examine their consciences before God and pull back from threats of war.
Read MoreThe Vatican has announced that the theme of the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which will be commemorated on September 25, is “Building the Future with Migrants and Refugees.”
“Building with” means “recogniz…
Read More“It was heartbreaking to see hundreds of people shedding tears” following the destruction of a statue of Christ and Stations of the Cross, said Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore. “We only fear that many more such harsh, orchestra…
Read MoreBishop Georg Bätzing of Limberg (the president of the bishops’ conference) and Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg have joined Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich in calling for a change in the Church’s discipline of clerical celibacy.
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“My heart aches greatly at the worsening situation in eastern Ukraine. Despite the diplomatic efforts of the last few weeks, increasingly alarming scenarios are opening up,” Pope Francis said on February 23. “Like me, many people all …
Read MoreSixty members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church (Mayflower Church) sought asylum while visiting the South Korean island of Jeju in 2019. Their initial asylum request was denied, and a UN office is assisting with another request.
“I have be…
Read MorePope Francis is scheduled to make an apostolic journey to Florence on February 27 and meet with Mediterranean bishops and mayors. The “holy mayor” to whom Cardinal Giuseppe Betori of Florence refers is Venerable Giorgio La Pira (1904-1977).
Read More“It is clear that al-Shabaab, seeing the quarrel of the political class at the state and regional level, has decided to resume its activities,” Bishop Giorgio Bertin, Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, said of the jihadist group. “…
Read MoreThe Central African nation of 27.7 million (map) is 32% Protestant, 30% Catholic, 21% Muslim, and 17% ethnic religionist. The Anglophone crisis there has displaced 700,000 people, and the college was burned down in an English-speaking separatist region.
Read MoreHaving concluded a series of 12 general audiences on St. Joseph, Pope Francis spoke on February 23 about old age.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The Church in Nigeria is in danger of falling to the same sad fate as North Africa, losing the faith due to it not being truly incarnated in the culture.
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Argentina, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News |
On the second day of the trial against Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta over sexual abuse, a priest testified that he had porn on his phone.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Bishop Appointment, Black Catholics, Church in the US, Diocese of Charleston, Haiti, lead, News, South Carolina |
Standing behind the podium as the second ever Haitian-American bishop-elect in the U.S. episcopacy Father Jacques Fabre highlighted how the mindset of people in his native country differs from that of Americans, and how that relates to his new role.
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saint Polycarp, bishop and martyr
Reading I Jas 4:13-17
Beloved:
Come now, you who say,
“Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town,
spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”–
you h…
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Cardinal Juan José Omella, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Spain |
Caving to pressure from abuse survivors, politicians and the media, the Spanish bishops announced on Tuesday that they will conduct a full, nation-wide investigation of clerical sexual abuse.
Read MoreThe French National Assembly has approved a measure to allow legal abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy. The existing law makes the practice illegal after the 12th week.
The bill, which passed by an overwhelming 135—49 vote, also allows mid…
Father Gabriel Romanelli, an Argentine native, discusses the “calmer climate” in the Gaza Strip following the May 2021 escalation of tensions. “At night one no longer hears—at least for the moment—the military actions ……
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