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Ahead of their upcoming meeting with Pope Francis, Canadian indigenous leaders said that they will call on the Pope “ to repeal the Papal Bull of 1493 issued by his predecessor Pope Alexander and all other Papal Bulls that enshrined the doctrine…
Read MorePope Francis received Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, SJ, of Hong Kong on March 17 and recorded the videos during the meeting.
“Thank you for your witness of faith,” he told Catholics in China. “Thank you for the love of the Lord Jes…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | consecration, lead, Mary, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Virgin Mary |
According to one expert in the Church’s field of Mariology, Pope Francis’s decision to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Friday is a significant gesture for the good of both nations.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
One positive result of the Covid chaos has been a desire to return to our roots—to our communities where the food is tastier, the work is local, and the ability to preserve and reuse is more accessible.
Reading I Jer 7:23-28
Thus says the LORD:
This is what I commanded my people:
Listen to my voice;
then I will be your God and you shall be my people.
Walk in all the ways that I command you,
so that you may prosper.
But they obeyed n…
Read More“I would like to take a minute to remember the victims of the war,” Pope Francis said at the conclusion of his March 23 general audience. “The news of displaced persons, of people fleeing, of people killed, people wounded, of so many…
Read MoreOn World Water Day (March 22), the Italian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai—the world’s fair, postponed because of Covid—organized an event entitled “’Pursuing the Human Right to Water.”
Emphasizing that access to wat…
Read MoreThe “solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” on March 25 “is meant to be a gesture of the universal Church, which in this dramatic moment lifts up to God, through…
Read MoreOn March 23, Pope Francis continued his series of Wednesday general audiences devoted to old age and reflected on the elderly’s transmission of faith in light of the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32).
Read MoreA March 21 plane crash in Guanxi Autonomous Region (map) killed all 132 people on board. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, sent a telegram of condolence in the Pope’s name to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Read More“I pray that all may be one” is the motto of the Pope’s apostolic journey to South Sudan, which will take place from July 5-7.
The nation of 11 million (map) is 61% Christian (and 38% Catholic), 32% ethnic religionist, and 7% Musli…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
Theology gets a bad rap, often seen as a bunch of eggheads asking questions that no one really cares about. In the Middle Ages, it revolved around how many angels could dance on the head […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Apologetics, Bible Study, News, Sacraments & Sacramentals, Teaching & Suggestions |
Since we are in Capernaum today, I decided to share a few words related to the site. I was recently asked a related questions questionic Answers Live. Capernaum is where Jesus said “Eat My Flesh; Drink My Blood.” I thought it would be appropriate to answer an e-mail I received a while ago from a man named […]
The post The Eucharist: the Flesh Profits Nothing appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MoreBlack Catholics in the US are more likely than other Catholics to leave the Church, a new study by Pew Research finds.
The study found that 46% of adult Black Americans who were baptized as Catholics no longer identify themselves as such.
In a message promoting the annual Good Friday collection for the Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, said that the papal trips of 2021 to Iraq, Cyprus, and Greece “testify to th…
Read MoreMajor Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Byzantine-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church met with his Orthodox counterpart, Metropolitan Epiphanius, on March 23, to discuss how they could cooperate during the current war.
“The participants of the me…
The chief ecumenical-affairs officer of the Moscow Patriarchate has assured European Catholic leaders that the Russian Orthodox Church is offering a “special prayer for the earliest restoration of peace” in Ukraine.
Metropolitan Hilarion…
Read MoreBishop John Brungardt of Dodge City, Kansas, has resumed his post after a 14-month leave of absence, having been cleared of sex-abuse charges.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City announced that both state prosecutors and Vatican investigators had…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Evangelization, Living the Faith, News, Surrender & Strength, witness |
When I envision a fortress, it invokes thoughts of strength, security and protection. The image is comforting, particularly when used in relation to one’s faith. I was speaking with someone I met recently about my faith and learned that he,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News |
West Side Story: Spielberg’s lavish tinseltown tribute strikes gold at the Academy Awards.
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