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“While we continue to look forward to the day when the full protection of unborn life is recognized in law, we are encouraged that HB 5 further limits the grave harm that abortion inflicts upon women and children,” said Christie Arnold of …
Read Morehref=”http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2021/outside/documents/papa-francesco-iraq-2021.html”> apostolic journey to Iraq in March 2021.
The Pope’s “historic visit was a blessing to all Iraqis,” said Car…
Read MoreCardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, said on March 7 that the Holy See is willing “to help in every way to stop the weapons and the violence and to negotiate a solution.”
“What needs to be done now, fi…
Read MoreThe head of the Russian Orthodox Church made his remarks, also reported on by the Moscow Times and subsequently by American media outlets, in a March 6 sermon.
In his sermon, Patriarch Kirill appeared to justify the War in Donbas, which began in…
Read MoreA Tale of Good People With a lump in his throat, the exhausted Ukrainian president says at a press conference: “I don’t know who could be doing more than the Poles are.” And about the Polish president, he adds: “This is strength, Andrzej [Duda] and I are very close to each other. We are true
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Read MoreWhat is at stake is not a privileged clerical status in an organization that tolerates “higher” and “lower” members, but a free gift from a merciful Lord to an undeserving priestly people
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The stakes for Ukrainians and Russians in this are existential; for Americans sitting behind computers, they are a luxury item to be indulged in, to signal one’s “virtue” by condemning the villain and praising the plucky underdog.
The bishops recently urged Filipinos to remember the “dark years” of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986)—leading to sharp criticism from Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., who is now a presidential candidate.
Read MoreOn March 7—the twelfth day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said that “today we are asking the world community to close the skies over Ukraine, …
Read MoreSecretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorka has granted TPS (temporary protected status) to Ukrainians; the status allows residents of some unsafe countries to live and work in the US.
“In these internally displaced persons and refugees,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In striving for sanctity, the ancients had an advantage over us. They had something that many of us appear to have lost: they actually believed in an objective order.
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Church in the US, Donations, lead, News, Phoenix, Prayer, President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Phoenix Ukrainian Catholic Church welcomes the support of many people in the community.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Pope Francis has appointed the Rev. Frank R. Schuster as auxiliary bishop of Seattle. Bishop-elect Schuster is a priest of the Archdiocese of Seattle and currently serves as pastor of Saint Vincent de Paul parish in Federal Way, Washington…
Read MoreReading I Is 55:10-11
Thus says the LORD:
Just as from the heaven
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed t…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Bishop accountability, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Bishop Michael Hoeppner, Church in the US, Diocese of Crookston, lead, News, Vos Estis |
Former Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, Bishop Michael Hoeppner will not return to do any ministry in the diocese and will have his retirement compensation cut, the diocese’s new shepherd announced on March 7.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, Seminarians, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
And even in the face of a threat they know all too well, Ukrainians are still able to hold on to their sense of humor, a sign of their resilience and faith.
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Titus Brandsma as rector magnificus of the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1932. / Public domain.
Vatican City, Mar 8, 2022 / 02:05 am (CNA).
The first canonization ceremony for more than two and a half years will take place on May 15. Among…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
At nearly two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Vatican’s top diplomat has doubled-down on the Holy See’s willingness to help mediate the conflict.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Church Fathers, fasting, Featured, Lives of Saints, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Robert Bellarmine, Saints, Sophia Excerpts |
The necessity of fasting is twofold, derived from divine law and human law. Of the divine, the prophet Joel speaks: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.” The same language is used by the prophet Jonah, who testifies that the Ninevites, in order to appease the […]
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