Annunciation
We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; always the tall lily. Arrived on…
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We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; always the tall lily. Arrived on…
The post Annunciation appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Featured Highlights, News, Saints |
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! Today, the divine Word was made incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, when she gave her fiat, the one who was full of grace became the ark and dwelling place of the source of all grace, and all of creation[…]
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Read MoreThe Holy See Press Office has posted a web page devoted to the Celebration of the Sacrament of Penance and Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The event takes place on March 25 at 5:00 Rome time (12:00…
Read MoreArchbishop José Antonio Eguren is a member of the Sodalitium of Christian Life (SCV), whose lay founder, Luis Fernando Figari, has been accused of sexual abuse. The prelate has filed defamation suits against two journalists who, according to the r…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Arizona, Associated Press, Church in the US, News, Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement |
PHOENIX — The Arizona Legislature on Thursday joined the growing list of Republican-led states to pass pro-life legislation as the U.S. Supreme Court a case that could overturn the nearly 50-year-old case that created a right to abortion in the country. The House voted on party lines to outlaw abortion […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Ambassador Francis Rooney, Ambassador James Nicholson, Ambassador Joe Donnelly, lead, News, U.S. embassy to the Holy See, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
As Joe Donnelly prepares to take up his position as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, one former diplomat has some advice: Build relationships in the Vatican.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The history of the Faith is filled with astonishing reversals, so why can’t the Consecration of Russia have a miraculous impact?
In a lecture to participants in a course on the internal forum, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, the Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, spoke on “The Joy of Mercy.”
The prelate also advised confessors to maintain the utmost discr…
Read MoreBishop Gustavo Zanchetta was the Argentine prelate who was accused of harassment, resigned, named assessor of the of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, and recently convicted by an Argentine court.
Read MoreThis article discusses the background of some of the key players in Vatican-Russian relations—including Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, now the apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, who was once stationed in the Vatican embassy in Moscow, and served as translato…
Read More“Pastoral Orientations on Intercultural Migrant Ministry” was released on March 24 by the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
The 40-page document has seven sections: “Acknowle…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Pope Francis, in just a few words, tossed Catholic Just War Teaching into the doctrinal trash bin where it may be keeping company with Francis’ 2018 revision of the Catholic teaching on capital punishment.
Rome is not just another city. It’s not even an Italian city. It belongs to the world and to God at one and the same time.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Cameroon, Caritas, Church in Africa, Environment Ecology, Laudato Si, lead, News |
As Africa is disproportionately affected by climate change, local Caritas agencies do what they can to implement the plan of action outlined in Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s 2015 ecological encyclical.
Read MoreReading I Is 7:10-14; 8:10
The LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying:
Ask for a sign from the Lord, your God;
let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky!
But Ahaz answered,
“I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!”
Then Isaiah sai…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Church in Europe, Church in the US, Holy See Mission to the United Nations, lead, News, Russia, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, United Nations |
Before Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador participated in a March 24 vote to get more aid to Ukraine he stood behind a podium inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan and called on the organization to take swift action against Russia.
Read MoreThe northern Indian state of Haryana (map) is 87% Hindu, 7% Muslim, and 5% Sikh; only 0.2% of its people are Christian. The law was supported by Hindu nationalists.
Read MoreOn March 24, Pope Francis received participants in the General Conference of the Marist Brothers, a religious institute founded by St. Marcellin Champagnat (1789-1840).
Taking up the conference’s theme (“Looking Beyond”), the P…
Read MoreOn March 24, Pope Francis received members of the Centro Italiano Femminile (Italian Women’s Center), founded in 1944.
In his address, the Pope recalled that the Center’s first national president, Maria Federici Agamben, contributed …
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