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Warsaw, Poland, Feb 21, 2022 / 03:05 am (CNA).
The president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference appealed to Poles on Monday to show “open and hospitable hearts” to refugees from Ukraine in the…
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A constellation of recent developments in medical research and technology has made the science fiction of large-scale human manufacturing a theoretical and potentially imminent possibility.
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Legal euthanasia and assisted suicide have no impact on the reduction of violent suicides and might in fact increase their prevalence, a new study has shown. The 35-page analysis in The Journal of Ethics in Mental Health showed that there has been no reduction in violent, or non-assisted suicides, in any European country where physician-assisted
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Read MoreReading I Jas 3:13-18
Beloved:
Who among you is wise and understanding?
Let him show his works by a good life
in the humility that comes from wisdom.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts,
do not boast …
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As the separatist conflict continues to escalate in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, the country’s Anglophone bishops warned that “those who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
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Following a historic meeting of the Catholic Church of Latin America and the Caribbean last November, senior leaders from the region recently traveled to Rome to discuss the fruits of the gathering with Pope Francis.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 21, 2022 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, land reform, lead, News |
The murder of a 9-year-old boy in a disputed area of land in Brazil’s Pernambuco State exposed many in Brazil to the gravity of the current situation of rural workers who are waiting for land reform.
Read MoreWhat hast thou learnt to-day? Hast thou sounded awful mysteries, Hast pierced the veiled skies, Climbed to the feet of…
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Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Pope Francis may meet in June or July, Russian Ambassador to Vatican City…
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Are you a Christian? Before you answer, consider these other questions: Do you love your enemy? Do you do good…
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The Beijing Olympics highlight how China’s communist rulers continue to comprehensively violate religious freedom and other fundamental human rights of…
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Speaking at a Vatican conference on the priesthood, Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda said the Church has never claimed that celibacy is…
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Robert Royal: Will the pope’s concern that Rome not be an authoritarian regime lead to healthy subsidiarity or to Germany’s near-schism?
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Read MoreSt. Peter Damian (1007-1073) was a Benedictine monk and Cardinal Bishop whose principle legacy relevant to our time is his slim volume titled The Book of Gomorrah (English translation by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman). Friend to several popes, he was never formally canonized but is recognized as a saint in the Church calendar on February 21st[…]
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Not many in the hierarchy write like Saint Peter Damian (+1072), whose direct and blunt condemnation of the unnatural sexual sins of the clergy he condemns in his vivid Book of Gomorrah, as told in summary form by Carl Sundell. Then again, not many today in the hierarchy write like Pope Benedict XVI, who, in[…]
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Read MoreSt. Peter Damian, a man of vehemence in all his actions who was brought up in the hard school of poverty, found that he had the vocation of a reformer. He exercised it in the first place against himself as one of the hermits of Fontavellana in about 10…
Read MoreWhether you’re stuck in a simple spiritual rut or having trouble feeling God’s presence at all, here’s help for discovering the causes and cures for times of spiritual dryness
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Hate crimes against Catholic targets have been vastly under-reported in Massachusetts, a lay activist group has found.
Official government statistics in Massachusetts showed 385 hate crimes in the 2020 calendar year, of which only two involved Catholi…
Pope Francis has assured a traditionalist group that its members will be allowed to continue celebrating the Latin Mass.
Leaders of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) met with the Pontiff on February 4. The FFSP reports that a week later the …
Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of Xinxiang, China, who was taken into custody by police last May, has now been detained for nine months.
Under Chinese law, an individual cannot be kept in custody for more than three months without formal charges. But aut…
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