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When I was a teenager I was blessed to belong to a youth group called Our Lady of Guadalupe Teens for Life. We met weekly, often participated in Eucharistic Adoration, prayed the Rosary, watched Catholic films, enjoyed games and fellowship. A video we watched that still stands out in my memory was one about St. […]
The Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life has organized a one-day conference on working conditions in lay associations, movements, and communities. Topics include “justice, charity, and freedom” in lay associations, as well as the legal im…
Read MoreThe International Union of Superiors General is holding a five-day meeting devoted to “Embracing Vulnerability on the Synodal Journey.”
“We truly hope to experience a privileged space for listening, of searching together with th…
Read MoreOn April 25, Pope Francis received a group of Missionaries of Mercy—priests who, since the
Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2015-16), have been granted the faculties to absolve sins reserved to the Apostolic See (Canons 1367, 1370, 1378, 1382, 1388)….
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In our current Woke culture, the body ceases to be determinative for human life, and we become some perverted vision of the angelic.
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Athletica Vaticana, faith and sports, Fratelli Tutti, lead, News, Soccer, Vatican |
Although most eyes were probably on the Manchester City-Real Madrid Champions League semifinal on Tuesday night, another match the same day was closer to the heart of Pope Francis.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, Remain in Mexico, U.S. Supreme Court |
After nearly two hours of oral arguments April 26, the Supreme Court justices had mixed views on the Biden administration ending a Trump-era immigration policy called “Remain in Mexico.”
Read MoreReading I Acts 5:17-26
The high priest rose up and all his companions,
that is, the party of the Sadducees,
and, filled with jealousy,
laid hands upon the Apostles and put them in the public jail.
But during the night, the angel of t…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Relief Services, Central America, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, dreamers, Immigration, immigration reform, Latin America, lead, News |
Nearly 400 Catholic Hispanic leaders will urge senators in Washington D.C. today to address the root causes of migration and work towards immigration reform.
Read More“Do not forget these three verbs: arise from your sedentary life, care for your brothers and sisters, and bear witness to the Gospel of joy,” Pope Francis said to participants in a youth missionary conference organized by the Italian bisho…
Read MorePope Francis received members of the FIAT Association, an organization founded by Cardinal Leo Suenens and Veronica O’Brien that arose from the Catholic charismatic movement.
“More than ever, we are called to be protagonists of an outg…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | News, The Dispatch |
Pope Francis is undoubtedly grieved by the carnage in Ukraine. And when the Catholic Church’s chief ecumenical officer, Cardinal Kurt Koch, tells journalists he shares the papal conviction that religious justifications of aggression are “blasphemy” […..
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | News, Prayer & Spiritual Life |
The Father sees my sign and knocks on my door, seeking a home for his Son. “Rent is cheap,” I say. “I don’t want to rent, I want to buy,” says God. “I’m not sure I want to sell, but please come in to look around.“ “I think I will,” says God. “I might let […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Sheila Murray-Nellis. Lamb Hooves click on linoleum; wriggling tail taps the tumbledown cardboard box; traces ofmilk replacer powder dust the counter; and out comes onegreen beer bo…
Read MoreThe rosary, an icon of Catholic identity, rattling around in millions of Catholic drawers, purses, and pockets—not to mention dangling from Catholic rearview mirrors. It’s one of the most popular devotions acclaimed by popes and saints. Bl. John Paul I…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | In the News, News |
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich is the new Catholic archbishop of Paris, France. Among the challenges facing the 70-year-old archbishop will be…
The post Pope names new archbishop for Paris appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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The 2023 Synod risks becoming a project of fruitless navel-gazing. Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she…
The post Dispiriting signs for Synod on Synodality appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | In the News, News |
Joseph Kennedy, a former U.S. Marine who was an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Washington, was…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | 2022, 30 pieces of silver, Aquinas, Brad Miner, Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ", Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Jesus Christ, Judas betrayed Christ through covetousness, Judas Iscariot, Judas Kiss, Michael Pakaluk, News, one holy catholic, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, The Church: Corrupt from the Start? |
If the Catholic Church was ever corrupt, it was corrupt from the beginning. But as it was not corrupt from…
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