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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Caritas, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
The president of Caritas Ukraine is an American citizen — the daughter of Ukrainian refugees — and yet she has not left Ukraine, even after the U.S. government advised Americans to leave.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in Europe, lead, News, Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
The top-ranking Ukrainian Catholic cleric in the United States warned Thursday that religious minorities in the Eastern European country stand to be “crushed” if Moscow gains control, as fighting raged on more than a month after the Russian invasion began.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report |
An 84-year-old defrocked priest was sentenced to five years of probation for lying to the FBI about whether he knew a former altar boy and his family.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, immigrants and refugees, Malta, News, Papal travel, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Malta |
Pope Francis heads to Malta this weekend, with the refugee exodus from Ukraine casting a haunting backdrop to the European migration drama that for years has focused on Malta and other Mediterranean countries.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, News, Title 42 |
News reports say the Biden administration may lift a public health measure in May that was put in place at the start of the coronavirus pandemic that has kept asylum-seekers out.
Read MorePope Francis will spend the weekend in Malta, an ancient Catholic country evangelized by St. Paul but is now being hit hard by secularization
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Is there such a thing as sinful obedience? What about virtuous disobedience? How do we discover a proper understanding of that most Catholic of virtues: obedience.
A German cardinal has admitted to blessing couples in same-sex relationships and has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising is the latest of a string of senior European clerics to call upon the Catholic Church to ditch its traditional teaching that homosexual sexual acts are
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Pope Francis meets Canadian Indigenous leaders at the Vatican on April 1, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Apr 1, 2022 / 07:50 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Friday expressed his “sorrow and shame” for the role Catholics have played in the abuse …
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages |
It is always hard to say “Goodbye” but we sure did it with a bang. Enjoy our last dinner and singing, our walk across the Tiber River and the farewells and comments from our pilgrims!
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Read MoreA delegation of Indigenous people from Canada were in Rome this week to meet with Pope Francis, in an effort to have him apologize for the historic abuse in Church-run schools
Read MoreThe Archdiocese of Vancouver will conduct a review of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Church in Vancouver, how the archdiocese responded and what, if anything, should be done to improve responses in future emergencies.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Abuse, Canada, Indigenous peoples, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Pope Francis apologized to Canada’s indigenous communities on Friday, asking a delegation for forgiveness for the “deplorable conduct” of some members of the Church who played a role in the many abuses committed against them.
Read MoreA high-tech effort to reach out to young Catholics and those who have drifted away from the Church, offering them a chance to join the synodal process
Read MoreGreek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem warns that the storming of the disputed Petra Hotel building by the Ateret Cohanim Jewish organization could ignite local hostilities
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | International, News |
The words I’m sorry from the Pope were more than what either Canadian bishops or Indigenous delegations expected from this week-long encounter with Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis meets members of the First Nations at the Vatican on March 31, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Apr 1, 2022 / 05:50 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has said that he will travel to Canada in the summer, possibly for the feast of St. Anne …
Vatican City, Apr 1, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Ahead of World Autism Awareness Day, Pope Francis called for a “culture of inclusion,” which breaks down barriers to ensure that people with disabilities can more fully take part in church communities and civil society.
Pope Francis met with an autism association at the Vatican on Friday and expressed the importance of supporting education, employment, and social opportunities for people with all types of disabilities.
“Disability, in all its forms, represents a challenge and an opportunity to build together a more inclusive and civil society, where family members, teachers and associations like yours are not left alone but are supported,” the pope said in the meeting on April 1.
“For this reason, it is necessary to continue to raise awareness about the various aspects of disability, breaking down prejudices and promoting a culture of inclusion and belonging, based on the dignity of the person.”
The pope underlined that the Church in particular is called to help those with disabilities to “make their voices heard.”
“The Covid-19 pandemic has had a very serious impact especially on the most vulnerable, on the elderly, on people with disabilities and their families. In recent weeks, the tragedy of the war in Ukraine has been added: let’s think of those who are most disadvantaged,” he said.
World Autism Awareness Day takes place each year on April 2. It was established by the United Nations in 2008 to promote the rights and well-being of people who live with learning differences and developmental disabilities.
Pope Francis met with the Italian Autism Foundation, an organization dedicated to research and the creation of social inclusion programs for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Philip, a 20-year-old man living on the autism spectrum, shared his life experiences with the pope in a brief speech at the beginning of the meeting in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall.
After the papal audience, some of the group’s young members with autism volunteered to help bring food to the homeless in St. Peter’s Square.
The pope commended the young people for this “beautiful” gesture, which he said reminded him of the Good Samaritan described in Jesus’ parable in the Gospel of Luke.
“Closeness, compassion, tenderness. With these three features we see the face of God, the heart of God, the style of God,” he said.
Pope Francis pointed to the example of Saint Margaret of Citta de Castello, a 13th century woman born with multiple disabilities who devoted herself to prayer and caring for the poor.
He said that “all those men and women who are more fragile and vulnerable, too often marginalized because they are labeled as different or even useless … are actually a great treasure for society.”
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