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Posted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Afghanistan, Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, immigrants and refugees, Mother Cabrini, News, Volunteerism |
Their work transformed an unused former nursing home into Catholic Charities’ new Cabrini Center, which will offer temporary housing and resettlement services to Afghan refugees starting a new life in Fort Wayne.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Arizona, Asylum, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Donald Trump, Guatemala, Immigration, Latin America, News, Pope Francis, Racism, Religious Sisters, U.S.-Mexico border |
“When I was in high school, I was actually advocating to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border,” Sister Tracy Horan said. Then she met an immigrant family, “and I found out it wasn’t as simple as I thought,” she added.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | News, Nota in Brevis |
February 5th is the liturgical memorial of St Agatha, a Sicilian virgin, martyred at Catania in the island of Sicily. Even if little is known about her life, however Agatha is certainly one of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs the early Church has ever witnessed. Hers is a story deeply marked by the boldest[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying. ‘Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!’(Lk. 5:8) ⧾ As we continue to commemorate the mysteries of Our Lord’s earthly life, our Gospel reading records the call of the first apostles who left everything and followed Jesus (Lk.[…]
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Read MoreToday, 6 February, is the feast of Saint Paul Miki and his (twenty-five) companions who were tortured and executed in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1597. “After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men[…]
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Pope Francis delivers his weekly Angelus message on Feb. 6, 2022 / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Feb 6, 2022 / 06:35 am (CNA).
When all your efforts feel futile and leave you disappointed and empty, Jesus wants to be close to you, Pope Francis sa…
Rudy Sylvan knows first-hand what it feels like to compete on the international stage.
Read MoreReading I Is 6:1-2a, 3-8
In the year King Uzziah died,
I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne,
with the train of his garment filling the temple.
Seraphim were stationed above.
They cried one to the other,
“Holy, holy, holy …
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | News, News Analysis |
Father Giuseppe Dossetti was ordained to the priesthood on Jan. 6, 1959, by the legendary Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna, whom Dossetti would go on to serve as a key adviser and ally.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Angola, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Elections, lead, News |
As Angolans prepare for general elections in August, the African country’s Catholic bishops are already expressing concern over what they describe as a “dark and nefarious atmosphere” that has enveloped the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Commentary, News, St. Peter |
Both Isaiah and Simon Peter knew their own weaknesses and sins. They knew they were unworthy of a call to serve God and yet – in his sheer goodness – God summoned them and entrusted them with his message.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Biblical Exposition, Catholic Controversies, News, Pope Francis, Prayer & Spiritual Life |
There are a lot of discussions about the Pope’s comments a while ago on the wording of the “Our Father” prayer, especially the line “Lead us not into temptation” (Matt 6:13). He said it gives the wrong impression — that God Himself leads us into sinful temptations. Of course, taken at face value without understanding […]
The post Does God Tempt Us to Sin? Should we Change the Words of the “Our Father” Prayer? appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | apostle, Evangelization, Gospel, Jesus Christ, mission, New Life in Christ, News, Scott Hahn, Scripture, St. Peter, Sunday Reflections, Word of God |
“Jesus has made us worthy to receive Him in the company of angels in God’s holy Temple. On our knees like Peter, with the humility of David in today’s Psalm, we thank Him with all our hearts and join in the unending hymn that Isaiah heard around …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | 2022, Behold I make all things new Revelation 21:5, Columns, Daniel 3, Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy OFM Cap., God’s good Creation, New Heaven and the New Earth, News, petting a grizzly bear, Psalm 148, Saint Francis Preaching to the Animals by Jan Siberechts 1666 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Second Coming, Weinandy's Of Grizzlies and the New Creation |
Thomas G. Weinandy OFM Cap.: In communion with us, all creation (animals included) groans, eagerly awaiting freedom from sin’s curse of death.
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Read MoreAfter Jesus had finished speaking, he said to Simon Peter, “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch!” The Holy Father proposed Jesus’ imperative “Put out into the deep water” as the motto of the Church. He did this because so often …
Read MoreIt is all here: The understanding of the radical eruption of God in the world through the Incarnation. The necessity of faith to purify reason and that we have a reasoned faith. The recognition of […]
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