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Addressing participants in a conference on the women saints who are doctors of the Church or co-patronesses of Europe, Pope Francis said that “the example of these saints highlights some of the elements that make up that femininity so necessary …
Read MoreA Swiss state university whose theology school has historic ties to the Dominican order has suspended a leading Russian Orthodox official from the faculty until he unequivocally condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The decision to suspend Metro…
Read More“The gunmen were said to have come in large numbers, well-armed, and operated for over an hour as they moved from one location to another,” according to the report on the attack on a parish in Kaduna State (map) in north-central Nigeria.
Read MoreCommenting on his March prayer intention (for a Christian response to bioethical challenges), Pope Francis said in a video that “it is evident that science has progressed, and today the field of bioethics presents us with a series of problems to…
Read MoreFather Ioann Burdin, a Russian Orthodox priest who ministers in Kostroma Oblast (map), spoke about “Russian troops in Ukraine shelling the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv and killing citizens of Ukraine—brothers and sisters in Christ.&rd…
Read MoreWarning against mining initiatives on undeveloped land inhabited by indigenous peoples, Brazil’s bishops called on “all Christians to protect life, indigenous peoples, and forests. We do not accept the legalization of the pollution of river…
Read MoreA year before general elections in Africa’s most populous nation, Archbishop Augustine Akubeze of Benin City, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, said that “the number of Nigerians who vote is very low” and that …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The West’s tepid response to the unprovoked and wholly unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine will likely make larger-scale military conflict—even nuclear conflict—more likely.
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Church in Europe, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Cardinal Michael Czerny, who is the interim head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Integral Human Development, says people in Eastern Europe are welcoming Ukrainian refugees.
Read MoreReading I Jon 3:1-10
The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
“Set out for the great city of Nineveh,
and announce to it the message that I will tell you.”
So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh,
according to the LORD’s bidd…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Catholic Relief Services, Church in Europe, CRS, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
When Caroline Brennan met Ukrainian refugee Mahamudoff Gazym at a Moldova bus station he talked about the questions his grandchildren ask that he can’t answer: “Who is making all the sounds of the bombs? How long are we going to sleep in the car?”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Caritas, Caritas Internationalis, Church in Europe, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Tetiana Stawnychy – the daughter of Ukrainian political refugees who fled Soviet communism in the 1940s – is now on the frontlines offering help to Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s current invasion.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Caritas, Caritas Internationalis, Church in Europe, lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Tetiana Stawnychy – the daughter of Ukrainian political refugees who fled Soviet communism in the 1940s – is now on the frontlines offering help to Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s current invasion.
Read MoreOn March 8—the 13th day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, spoke of the “miracle of the Dnieper” [Dnipro], a reference to the major European…
Read MoreBishop Christopher Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, has removed a pastor who refused Covid vaccination, declined to be tested regularly, and would not wear a mask.
The bishop said that he was removing Father Peter Williams from his post because of the pr…
On March 7, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo spoke to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva about the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, which killed 269 people and injured over 500.
“Nearly three years after the horrendous crime, we are st…
Read MorePope Francis has removed a bishop from his diocese in Puerto Rico, without citing any legal or canonical offense.
The Vatican announced on March 9 that Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres had been “relieved” of his role in the Arecibo diocese; …
Papal envoy Cardinal Konrad Krajewski meets with Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki and Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk in Ukraine on March 8, 2022. / Twitter @StanislawBudzik.
Lviv, Ukraine, Mar 9, 2022 / 02:00 am (CNA).
A papal envoy to Ukr…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
In the early 1990s, I met Kirill, now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, when the man christened Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev was chief ecumenical officer of the Russian Orthodox Church. The occasion was a dinner […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Gerard Garrigan, O.S.B. Good Friday 1997 Blood red cardinal on a scourged and broken asphalt road beneath a dark and darkening sky some time past noon, not quite three in a moment he’ll fly but f…
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