War in Ukraine and the arms race
Pope Francis is right to call the recent massive increases in military spending as “madness”
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Pope Francis is right to call the recent massive increases in military spending as “madness”
Read MorePope Francis is holding four days of meetings with indigenous peoples from Canada, who suffered decades of physical and sexual abuse at Catholic-run boarding schools
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A priest celebrates the traditional Latin Mass at the Basilica of St. Pancras in Rome. / Thoom/Shutterstock
Vatican City, Mar 28, 2022 / 04:20 am (CNA).
The Vatican has corrected a paragraph in its new constitution which it said erroneously ref…
As Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25 in St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, led the Act of Consecration at the Sanctuary of Fátima in Portugal. The nation…
Read More“In April of 2017, the US leader of the Society of Jesus stood before cameras at Georgetown University and apologized for the Jesuits’ sale of 272 slaves to three Louisiana plantations in 1838,” the report begins.
“We were j…
Read More“We hope and pray that this war – which is shameful for all of us, for all of humanity —will come to an end as soon as possible,” Pope Francis said on March 26 to members of the Federazione Italiana Ricetrasmissioni Citizen’s B…
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As the world continually demands blind and unquestioning acceptance of The Current Narrative, Catholics should be more critical and judge those Narratives by the standards of our Faith.
Pope Francis has again lamented the war in Ukraine and appealed for peace more than a month after Russia’s invasion. “Enough. Stop it. Silence the weapons. Move seriously toward peace,” Pope Francis said again in remarks after the Sunday Angelus. Speaking to a crowd of some 30,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday,
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Read MoreOn March 26, Pope Francis delivered an address to participants in the general chapter of the Figlie di Maria Santissima dell’Orto (Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden). The sisters are also known as the Gianelline, after their founder, St. Ant…
Read MoreThe African Great Lakes nation of 12.2 million (map) is 65% Catholic, 29% Protestant, 4% ethnic religionist, and 2% Muslim.
“Burundi is a country with a very painful history, littered with massacres, killings, social conflicts and violence, o…
Read MoreOn March 25, Pope Francis presided over the celebration of the Sacrament of Penance and Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Peter’s Basilica.
“Today, renewed by forgiveness, may we too knock at the door of her Imm…
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The Church’s strategy of evangelization has been to accommodate ourselves to the culture, reversing the words of St. Paul; we grow old and stale, conforming to the world.
Reading I Is 65:17-21
Thus says the LORD:
Lo, I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
The things of the past shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happi…
On March 25, Pope Francis received 80 parents of Spanish Jesuits and recalled that “although initially his mother did not share his vocational choice, she wanted to accompany him along with his father on the long journey made by bus,” the V…
Read MoreIn a Note to Bishops and Episcopal Conferences on the Celebration of Holy Week, the prefect and secretary of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments said that “in view of the ongoing slowdown of th…
Read MoreOn March 25, Pope Francis received participants in a course on the internal forum organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary.
Pope Francis told 800 priests in Paul VI Audience Hall that acceptance, listening, and accompaniment are “three essenti…
Read MoreCardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap, the preacher of the papal household since 1980, customarily preaches sermons to the Pope and members of the Roman Curia on Fridays during Advent and Lent.
This Lent, his sermons are devoted to the Mass. His f…
Read MoreMajor Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, took part in the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25.
“Each of you will tell your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 28, 2022 | Canada, canadian bishops, Church in the Americas, Indigenous, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Canadian indigenous are meeting with Pope Francis this week in a bid to further efforts at reconciliation and to lay the groundwork for a papal trip to Canada.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 28, 2022 | Aparecida, Brazil, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Our Lady of Aparecida, Statues |
São Paulo State’s Court of Appeals has reversed a 2019 decision that stopped the building of a giant steel statue of the Virgin Mary in Aparecida, the city where Brazil’s major Catholic shrine is located.
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