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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, sent a telegram to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s president following an attack by militants on a refugee camp.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Archdiocese of Chicago, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Chicago, Church in the US, News, Racism |
A Chicago Catholic school has fired a history teacher after she repeatedly used a racial slur for Black people during a class discussion on sports team names and in a meeting with administrators.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | News, United Kingdom |
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop William Nolan as the new Archbishop of Glasgow. Bishop Nolan will succeed Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who died two days after his 70th birthday in January last year after contracting Covid-19. Bishop Nolan, who has served as Bishop of Galloway since 2015, said he “overwhelmed” by the trust the Pope had
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The insufferably self-righteous “We Believe” signs appearing in lawns across America are a smokescreen to prevent the shallow values they attempt to smuggle in from being challenged.
On February 6, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pope Francis delivered his Angelus address to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square, and reflected on Luke 5:1-11, the Gospel of the day.
Following his address, Pope Francis spoke about Ray…
Read MoreBishop Paul Hinder, OFM Cap, the Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia, reflected on the Document on Human Fraternity on the third anniversary of its signing by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar.
The document “remains an important point …
In 2020, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a response to a dubium, stated that changing the baptismal formula from “I baptize you” to “we baptize you” invalidates the sacrament.
Father Andres Arango, who cu…
Read MoreThe Turkish government, with Russian Orthodox aid, has been restoring Sumela Monastery, a monastery established in 386 and abandoned a century ago.
Following the posting of a video with disco dancing at the monastery (Turkish media coverage), the …
Read More“Today we truly rejoice in Her Majesty, our Queen Elizabeth,” Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster wrote on February 6, the 70th anniversary of her accession of the throne. “We thank God for her shining, platinum, witness of servic…
Read MorePeter Forster was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Chester from 1996 to 2019. “The retired bishop, 71, hasn’t spoken about his reception into the Catholic Church, and there is no information on whether he will seek to become a Catholic pri…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The life of Croatian Jesuit Stjepan Tomislav Poglajen gives us a warning about the troubling direction in which the United States, Europe, and the entire West could move in the 21st century.
WASHINGTON – In observance of the annual National Catholic Schools Week celebration, which concluded on February 5, Bishop Thomas A. Daly of Spokane, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education expressed gratitu…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking will be observed on February 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita. The event is designated by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development as …
Read MoreReading I 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13
The elders of Israel and all the leaders of the tribes,
the princes in the ancestral houses of the children of Israel,
came to King Solomon in Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant
from the …
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Spain |
Spain’s prime minister wants to task the nation’s ombudsman with the country’s first official investigation into the depth of sexual abuse committed by Roman Catholic clergy.
Read MoreOn February 5, Pope Francis addressed members of the National Association of Italian Municipalities in Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace (photographs, full text).
“The peripheries must not only be helped, they must be transformed into l…
Read MoreFollowing the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last summer, Haiti has been led by Acting President and Prime Minister Ariel Henry. A presidential election would typically have been held, and a new president sworn in, on February 7—but no e…
Read MoreL’Osservatore Romano devoted its most prominent front-page coverage on February 5 to the Tarapacá migrant crisis, in which refugees, fleeing political repression and economic collapse in Venezuela, have sought a new home in Chile—wher…
Read MoreOn the evening of February 6, Pope Francis was interviewed live on RAI, the Italian public television network.
The Pope addressed questions about “wars, migrants, safeguarding creation, the relationship between parents and children, evil and …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Archdiocese of Cologne, Associated Press, Bishop Georg Bätzing, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, News |
The head of the German Bishops’ Conference expressed doubts that the planned return of Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki as archbishop of Cologne will help the diocese overcome a crisis sparked by the church’s handling of sex abuse allegations.
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