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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed that we are individually responsible for the sins of everyone in the world—and it is a mindboggling and soul-shaking meditation that is ripe material for Lent.
In an unnamed town in war-scarred north-eastern Ukraine, an enormous icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour watches over two dozen or so tired, weary people as they try to rest on mattresses laid out on the floor of the room in which they continue to shelter from the ongoing bombardment. A few rugs on
The post Redemptorist relief: how a religious order is caring for refugees in Ukraine appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Church in Europe, International Catholic Migration Commission, lead, News, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
When it comes to helping migrants and refugees fleeing conflicts, few have the experience of the Geneva-based International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC).
Read MoreReading I Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25
Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish,
had recourse to the LORD.
She lay prostrate upon the ground, together with her handmaids,
from morning until evening, and said:
“God of Abraham, God of Isaac, …
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Caritas, Cei, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italian bishops, Italy, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
As the war in Ukraine continues into its second week, the Italian Catholic Church is among the various organizations and associations stepping in to offer help to families and individuals that have been displaced by fighting.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
In new comments to Italian media, the Vatican’s Secretary of State has said recent remarks by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill will only make tensions in the Russia-Ukraine war worse, and said a second meeting with the pope is unlikely.
Read MoreCardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, traveled to Ukraine as a representative of Pope Francis and lauded his native Poland’s acceptance of refugees.
“Despite the fact that Europe labels us as if we are intolerant, that we do not …
Read MoreOn March 9—the 14th day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, lamented Russian attacks on houses of worship and on civilians.
“Where there is war,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
Are Catholic schools places of refuge or centers for mission? Many people may come to our schools simply to escape the negative influences of the culture or the ideology permeating public schools. Even so, when […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Central America, News |
A Catholic bishop in Puerto Rico described his removal from office by Pope Francis on Wednesday as “totally unjust.” Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who has led the Diocese of Arecibo since 2010, said he had been asked to resign because he “had not been obedient to the pope nor had I been in sufficient communion
The post Pope sacks bishop who claimed it was ‘legitimate’ for Catholics to question safety of Covid vaccines appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Living the Faith, News, surrender, Surrender & Strength |
Last week we looked at the connection between surrender and strength. There are many obstacles in the way of our trustful surrender to our Lord. But I found that when I put my pride aside and humbly surrender to His will, the Lord gives me strength and…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | News, Protestant/Other Christians |
This article was published by Nick Page in Premier Christianity Magazine in October 2017 but it’s as good today as then. He is trying to help Protestants understand that there were problems created by the Protestant movement. He explains five big loses: 1) Loss of unity, 2) Loss of monasteries, 3) Loss of silence, 4) […]
The post Protestant Acknowledges “Five Things We Lost because of the Reformation” – one of the best I’ve read on it appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Featured, News, Prayer & Spirituality |
Catholics no longer live in close-knit, prayerful communities. In fact, in many ways, our parishes are places where we know very few people and the activities being offered do not draw us into deep relationships with one another. We attend a gathering and we leave. We go home and spend hours on our phones and […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Commentary, News |
The former nuncio to the U.S., Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò, has emphatically backed Russian president Vladimir Putin, and appeared to…
The post Has Viganò gone too far? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | Commentary, News |
The Vatican must inform Patriarch Kirill that the Holy See’s ecumenical contacts with Russian Orthodoxy are suspended until Kirill condemns…
The post Needed: an ecumenical reset appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | In the News, News |
A papal envoy to Ukraine met on Tuesday with the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) and the…
The post Papal envoy meets Ukrainian Catholic Leaders appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | In the News, News |
As the U.S. Senate prepares to evaluate President Biden’s first pick for the Supreme Court, pro-life legal experts assert that…
The post Supreme Court nominee no moderate appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2022 | 2022, Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, Columns, Marcial Maciel, News, Oran Argentina, Pope Francis' friend Gustavo Zanchetta, Quilmes Argentina, sexual abuse of seminarians in Argentina, St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Stephen P. White's "Transparency is Pastoral", Theodore McCarrick, Vatican oversight, Vos Estis Lux Mundi, Zanchetta porn scandal |
Stephen P. White: If the pope’s episcopal accountability reforms will work, only if be treated as laws and are not enforced selectively.
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Read MoreCommunion Antiphon, Mt 7:8:Everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and the one who knocks, the door will be opened.In certain ways the Lenten Christian is like the Jew in exile. He is still exposed to the attacks of the enemies. Lent…
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