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Commenting on Lebanon’s political and financial crisis, the prelates supported the Maronite Catholic Patriarch’s “appeal for action through the United Nations to find a solution to the crisis, upholding Lebanon’s independence, …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
One world leader closely watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, perhaps more importantly, the West’s response to that invasion is Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
What is this strange fascination with ashes? By day’s end, in this Church of the Holy Innocents three blocks north of Macy’s in Midtown Manhattan, priests will have imposed ashes on the foreheads of thousands […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Russia, Russian bishop conference, Russian Catholic Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Catholics in Russia have been left “grieving, angered and bewildered” by their country’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the church’s spokesman, who also warned that citizens would face harsh economic consequences from the conflict.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Holy See diplomacy, News, Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican diplomacy |
Condemning violence and expressing his concern for and solidarity with Ukraine, Pope Francis has not uttered the word “Russia” publicly.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Seminarians, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Far from his seminary near Kyiv, Ukraine, seminarian Bohdan Mandziuk is still in regular contact with his classmates and, like them, is trying to find ways to help.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | General Audience, lead, News, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican |
Pope Francis Wednesday gave a special greeting to a Ukrainian priest reading the Polish translation of his general audience remarks, whose parents he said are currently hiding in an underground shelter near Kyiv.
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Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Credit: Jochen Rolfes/Archdiocese of Cologne. / null
Cologne, Germany, Mar 2, 2022 / 02:34 am (CNA).
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has submitted his resignation to Pope Francis as leader of Germany’s Catholic archdi…
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Credit: Jochen Rolfes/Archdiocese of Cologne. / null
Cologne, Germany, Mar 2, 2022 / 02:34 am (CNA).
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has submitted his resignation for a second time to Pope Francis as leader of Germany…
Reading I Jl 2:12-18
Even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.
For …
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference |
Texas Catholic leaders and other opponents of the death penalty are urging Texas officials to grant clemency to a 53-year-old Latina woman set to be executed in late April.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages |
Not all tour buses are created equal. Not all pilgrimage guides and drivers are created equal either! Janet and I have been to the Holy Land over 180 times. We have led 80+ pilgrimages and we have always used the same local guide. His name is Amer and he is a Catholic from Nazareth and […]
The post Our Brand New 2022 Bus Awaits you in the Holy Land appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Idaho, News, School vouchers |
An Idaho statehouse panel on Tuesday rejected legislation that opponents said would have harmed education by transferring more than $1 billion dollars of public money to private and religious schools.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Catholic Universities, Church in Europe, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Father Andrii Shestak, Director of the School of Journalism and Communications in Ukrainian Catholic University, said locals feel like David battling Goliath.
Read MoreIn a statement issued on March 1—the sixth day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said that “information has been received that Russian troops are…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic vote, Church in the US, diocese of Brownsville, lead, Migration, News, Sister Norma Pimentel, U.S.-Mexico border |
Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, has encouraged political advocacy group CatholicVote to come and see the work of Catholic agencies at the U.S.-Mexico border for themselves.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Church in the US, clergy sex abuse, encounter, Georgetown University, John Carr, lead, News, Pope Francis, Sister Norma Pimentel, Synod |
At a time when divisiveness has run rampant in the Church and broader society, Kim Daniels suggests a way to overcome it is stepping back from “large forces” like media and politics and living out the Catholic faith through service in everyday life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
If you’ve not been in the Vatican basilica on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, by all means put that on your bucket list. Not only is February 22 the day […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Caritas, Caritas Internationalis, Church in Europe, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin |
As the war in Ukraine enters its seventh day, the country’s leading Catholic charity organization assisting both those who are fleeing and those who have stayed has made an appeal for concrete help and for humanitarian corridors to be opened.
Read MoreCardinal Rainier Maria Woelki of Cologne, who has come under fire for his handling of sex-abuse complaints, has submitted his resignation—for the second time.
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