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In a March 24 message, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, pleaded for besieged Mariupol.
“Mariupol is covered with the lifeless bodies of hundreds, thousands of people who have no one to bu…
Read MoreAlessandro Gisotti, vice director of the Editorial Directorate at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, criticized Vladimir Putin by name in a commentary written one month after Russia attacked Ukraine.
The past month has “dramatica…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | News, Sacraments & Sacramentals |
The other day a friend wrote and asked a question. It was an interesting question. “Is the answer to this that in the earlier examples, only the disciples did the baptizing and John is using a Hebraic figure of speech such that his disciples did them in his name and by his authority? If so, […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Between the Sundays, Father, News |
Some weeks, the connection between the Sunday Mass readings is obvious. Perhaps the Old Testament reading is a clear foreshadowing or example of typology for the Gospel reading. Or all the readings point to a common theme, like the importance of …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, Lent, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Scripture |
We should not lose heart during this second half of Lent. Rather, we should encourage one another to continue the effort to gain control over our minds and our bodies for God’s glory. And, let’s never forget that this process always and only begins with His divine grace: we can do nothing on our own.
In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus’ critics level a charge against Him that unwittingly sums up the glory of salvation history. What was it? Gospel (Read Lk 15:1-3, 11-32) St. Luke tells us “tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus.” Isn’t this a beautiful thought for us to ponder during Lent? Now that we are […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | In the News, News |
Senators are continuing to press Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on the abortion issue during her confirmation hearings with…
The post When does life begin: Senators quiz Court nominee appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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Transhumanism is the belief that we can become H+, which is to say, better than human, even eventually immortal here…
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Courtesy of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s support for Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, the religious landscape of the 21st century has…
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Read MoreThis is no time for a child to be born, With the earth betrayed by war & hate And a…
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I lay no claim to being a visionary. Still, we sometimes experience incidents that bring us up short, cause us…
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Read MoreGospel Verse, Jn 1:14ab:The Word of God became flesh and made his dwelling among us; and we saw his glory. Again Lent’s austerity is interrupted as we solemnly keep a feast in honor of the Annunciation. The Annunciation is a mystery that belongs to the…
Read MoreThe president of the German bishops’ conference has responded to criticism of the Synodal Path by bishops in Poland and the Nordic region.
Bishop Georg Bätzing said that the Synodal Path is “a way of conversion and renewal” in t…
An investigation by the Denver archdiocese has concluded that a red substance found on a statue of St. Michael the Archangel is not blood.
“The appearance of the substance on the cotton swabs was similar to red nail polish,” the archdioce…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Anointing of the Sick, Catechesis, Catechism, confession, Essay, Features, Lent, News, penance, Sacrament |
Sacraments of Healing The Catechism’s introduction to the “sacraments of healing” is so good that the best service to be provided here is simply to cite it verbatim: Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man […]
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