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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured, Little Sisters of the Poor, Lives of Saints, News, Saints, St. Jeanne Jugan |
Imagine for a moment that all of your life’s work was stolen by someone else. You spent years living in poverty, begging for alms, and serving the poorest among the elderly. There were immense sacrifices, charitable works, and fervent prayers offered in order to build up a new religious community. You were once in the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Afghanistan, Biden Administration, China, Church in the US, Congress, human rights, lead, News, Nigeria, Religious Freedom, Russia, USCIRF |
All five of the new countries that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended that the State Department designate as Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) have persecuted Christians over the past year.
Read MoreTommaso Di Ruzza, who led the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority from 2015 to 2020, is among the defendants in the Vatican trial related to a London property deal. Di Ruzza is accused of failing to alert Vatican prosecutors to the suspicio…
Read MoreIn response to a question posed in an interview, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, renewed his criticism of the joint presence of a Russian and a Ukrainian at the Pope’s Good Friday Via Crucis,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Biblical Exposition, News, Saints and Fathers |
I get asked this question a lot and thought others would find my answer helpful. Not that I claim to have discovered this myself but reading and gleaning has brought me to this conclusion. In Luke 7:19-28, John the Baptist was in prison and sent two of his disciples to Galilee to ask Jesus a […]
The post Did John the Baptist Doubt that Jesus was the Messiah? appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | daily life, exercise, Featured, laity, lay catholic, News, peace, plan of life, Prayer, prayer life, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Spiritual Life, Surrender & Strength |
I really don’t like going to the doctor and will do anything to avoid it. However, I am starting to recognize that I can no longer take my health for granted. I went to my doctor for a routine physical and heard once again that I needed to shed some …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Angela Baird, Features, History, News, pro-life, Thomas Aquinas College |
March 3, 2022: it is the second day of the spring 40 Days for Life campaign in Ventura, California. The calendar is mostly empty, not surprising as the campaign gathers momentum. But Thursdays are already […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis urged Catholics on Wednesday to rediscover a book of the Bible that offers “valuable teaching on the alliance…
The post Pope: Read the Book of Ruth appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Commentary, News |
When Christ rose, He took up His same, true body, but it now manifested a perfected glory. When we rise…
The post Why did Christ’s glorified body still have wounds? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Commentary, News |
For one thing, it means pro-life groups won’t be censored by the social-media giant as they were in the past….
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis was forced to clear his diary for the second time in less than a week on Tuesday due…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | 2022, Catholic brothers Des and Tom Spellacy, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Francis X. Maier, Jesus Christ, John Gregory Dunne, News, St. Augustine on confession, The Catholic Thing, True Confessions movie |
“I hated that movie.” So said a priest friend some years ago when I mentioned the film True Confessions. Looking…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Homily of the Day, News |
In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles Peter and the apostles tell the leaders who had given them orders to stop preaching about Jesus that they could not but preach about the Lord Jesus: “Better for us to obey God rather than any human authority.” Before he ascended back to his heavenly […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Homily of the Day, News |
In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles Peter and the apostles tell the leaders who had given them orders to stop preaching about Jesus that they could not but preach about the Lord Jesus: “Better for us to obey God rather than any human authority.” Before he ascended back to his heavenly […]
Read MoreEntrance Antiphon, Cr. Ps 68 (67):8-9, 20: O God, when you went forth before your people, marching with them and living among them, the earth trembled, heavens poured down rain, alleluia.St. Peter Chanel was born in France in 1802. He was ordained a pr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Daily Verse, heart, News |
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore…” (Revelation 1:17b-18a) Print this entry
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The Council of Cardinals—which was formed to advise Pope Francis on reform of the Roman Curia—met this week for the first time since the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium was released, to discuss other issues.
A statement releas…
The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to settle abuse cases against five clerics, with a payment of $800,000 to the complainants.
The cases include an abuse charge against Father George Clements, the noted civil-right activist, who in 1980 became the …
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