The Myth of the “Crusader Putin”
Conservative Catholics tempted to see Putin’s Russia as a Christian alternative to an atheistic West need to look more deeply at the reality underneath.
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Posted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Conservative Catholics tempted to see Putin’s Russia as a Christian alternative to an atheistic West need to look more deeply at the reality underneath.
The Philippine presidential election features six candidates and will take place on May 9.
“We are appalled by the blatant and subtle distortion, manipulation, cover-up, repression and abuse of the truth,” the nation’s bishops sa…
Read MoreFrom 1940 to 1996, an estimated 16,000 people were sterilized without their consent under Japan’s eugenics sterilization law.
Read MoreProsecutors in Indonesia, which has more Muslims than any other nation, are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for Muhammad Kace, a convert to Christianity who is accused of insulting the founder of Islam.
Read MoreOn February 27, Pope Francis devoted his Angelus address to Luke 6:39-45, the Gospel reading of the day.
Read MoreOn February 26, Pope Francis met for two hours with the Lieutenant Grand Master Fra’ Marco Luzzago, Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi (the Pope’s delegate to the Order), and others who offered differing visions of the reform of the Order of Mal…
Read MoreBorn in 1940, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was installed in 1991 as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. He holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches.
“Even in the most unfavorable circumstances, such as today,…
Read MorePope Francis has renewed his appeal for the entire Catholic Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in Ukraine. In his Sunday Angelus, the Pontiff called upon the war parties to turn away from the “diabolical and perverse logic of weapons”. “Many times we have prayed that this
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Parents need to help their teenage children become discerning users of film.
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate voted against advancement of the Women’s Health Protection Act, H.R. 3755. This bill would have imposed abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy through federal statute and would have eliminated pro-li…
Read MoreReading I 1 Pt 1:3-9
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance that is imperishable, u…
Russia’s Catholic bishops said that leaders “will have to give a strict account of the military actions they have taken, for the course of centuries to come depends largely on their present decisions.”
“We call upon all the p…
Read MoreIn a statement issued on February 27—the fourth day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said that “Ukraine fights, Ukraine wins, but we …
Read MoreIn a statement issued by Caritas Internationalis—the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies—the head of Caritas Ukraine warned that the war “will inevitably lead to a colossal humanitarian catastrophe.”
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Posted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Caritas, Church in Europe, Dominicans, Knights of Columbus, lead, News, Poland, Polish bishops, Refugees, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Polish Catholic organizations are doing all they can to help people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in the US, lead, News, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Church, War |
Just before Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York left St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Feb. 27 he put his arm around Bishop Paul Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, and said, “you let me know how we can help.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Elderly, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, General Audience, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
The Vatican’s top official on life issues has said the pope’s decision to launch a new weekly catechesis on “old age” is timely and voiced his belief that the Church itself still struggles with seeing the elderly in a positive light.
Read MoreFollowing his Angelus address on February 27, Pope Francis renewed his appeal for prayers for peace and deplored war as an instrument of aggression.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Cardinal Silvano Tomasi, Editorials, Magazine, March 2022, News, Pope Francis, The Order of Malta |
The Pope’s five-year intervention in the affairs of the Order of Malta has not been particularly happy. Some of the Order’s knights and dames feel that the effect of his involvement in its affairs and constitution has been to diminish its autonomy and amounts to an attempt to turn a sovereign order with a unique
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Editorials, Magazine, March 2022, News |
As the number of people becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 continues to fall given the mildness of the Omicron variant relative to earlier strains of the virus, states and local governments are gradually lifting some of the more onerous restrictions on normal life. In the Church, individual bishops’ conferences are obliged to respect
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