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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Catholic Church, Curial reform, News, Praedicate Evangelium, Roman Curia, The Dispatch, Vatican, Vatican dicasteries |
St. Peter’s Basilica. / Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.
Vatican City, Apr 4, 2022 / 06:10 am (CNA).
In the world of the Vatican, the editio typica of a document is critically important. It is the standard edition of a text that serves as a reference f…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | News, United Kingdom |
Revised national guidelines for the College of Policing will allow for sacramental access at crime scenes where operationally possible following the conclusion of a working group set up in the aftermath of the murder of MP Sir David Amess. The murder in October 2021 raised a number of questions concerning the appropriate response to granting
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Cardinal Turkson at the Vatican Press Office. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA.
Vatican City, Apr 4, 2022 / 04:23 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Monday appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson as the new chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontific…
The recent visit that Indigenous Canadians paid to Pope Francis provided some surprising scenes
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Our world is awash in idolatry, from the “hard” idolatry of Pachamama to the “soft” idolatry of our smartphone obsession and celebrity culture. This widespread idolatry might be caused by something you wouldn’t suspect.
“We reject Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and strongly condemn the devastating hostilities,” the representatives of seven European shrine—Altoetting (Germany), Czestochowa (Poland), Einsiedeln (Switzerland), Lourdes (France), Lore…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
One theme among some conservatives has been the role of Russia as a sort of holy scourge of a decadent West. But the answer to Western problems is not salvation by way of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, lead, News, Papal plane, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican |
Once again, Pope Francis avoided speaking directly about Russian President Vladimir Putin and instead focused on condemning war as a cruel and inhumane act that “goes against the human spirit.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News |
Human rights activists in Brazil are protesting a decision by President Jair Bolsonaro’s Ministry of Defense to celebrate the March 31, 1964 military coup in the country.
Read MoreIf a man wants to be always in God’s company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us. (Saint Isidore of Seville, +636)
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Reading I Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62
In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,
who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna,
the daughter of Hilkiah;
her pious parents had trained their daughter
accord…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Featured Highlights, News, Saints |
Today, April 4th, is the commemoration of Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636) a bishop and doctor of the Church during a tumultuous age, when civilization was crumbling, coming apart at its very seams, which may sound sort of familiar. The form of this world has always been passing away. Through it all, Isidore guided his[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, nuncio, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine |
On his way back from Malta on Sunday, Pope Francis told reporters that a visit to Ukraine is possible.
Read MoreBishop Luciano Capelli, who leads a diocese in the Solomon Islands (map), expressed concern about the government’s turn toward China.
“The implications of such an agreement are unknown, and the Solomon Islands do not need war games,&rd…
Read MoreOn April 2, Pope Francis met with over a dozen Ukrainian refugees hosted by the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Papal Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. The refugees bade the Pope farewell as he departed for his apostolic journey to Malta.
Read MoreDedicated in 537, Hagia Sophia has been the cathedral of the Patriarch of Constantinople (until 1453), a mosque (until 1931), and a museum; it became a mosque again in July 2020.
Read MoreIn an address to civil authorities and the diplomatic corps during his apostolic journey to Malta, Pope Francis—without mentioning Russia or its leader by name—lamented the invasion of Ukraine.
“We had thought that invasions of o…
Read MoreIn an address at a prayer meeting at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Ta’ Pinu, Pope Francis emphasized love, welcome, and evangelization.
“You must return to the essence of Christianity: the love of God, th…
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