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Pope Francis delivers the Regina Caeli address, April 24, 2022. / Vatican Media
Arlington, Va., Apr 26, 2022 / 16:17 pm (CNA).
In a video message to the Tuesday opening of a gathering for Hispanic ministry leaders in the US, Pope Francis encour…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Ukraine |
Having “the smell of sheep” for one military chaplain serving in Ukraine has now meant being surrounded by the smell of burned homes and lives.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News |
Bishop Christian Carlassare of Rumbek, South Sudan, expressed hope for conversion and healing, as a court sentenced a Catholic priest and three others for his shooting.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Vatican |
Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Laurent Ulrich as the new archbishop of Paris, the Vatican announced April 26.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Asia - Pacific, News |
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Hong Kong. Credit: Volodymyr Dvornyk/Shutterstock / null
Denver Newsroom, Apr 26, 2022 / 15:37 pm (CNA).
Speaking publicly under his own name for the first time, a Hong Kong priest says the Chinese …
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Local News, News |
“Parents want him badly” is among handwritten notations in an arrivals and departure record from 1889-1890 from the Catholic Industrial School in Clontarf. From 1884 to 1892, the then-Archdiocese of St. Paul contracted with the U.S. government for the school’s use as an Indian boarding school, drawing students from more than a dozen different tribal […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | American Indian, Deb Haaland, Featured, Indian Boarding Schools, Local News, NABS, Native American, News |
As the United States begins to confront this chapter of its history, so does the Catholic Church. According to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) — which has compiled what is generally regarded as the most comprehensive, albeit admittedly incomplete list of U.S. Indian boarding schools — at least 84 of the 367 identified schools were run by Catholic institutions through contracts with the U.S. government. A group of Catholic archivists researching the topic believe there were many more.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | News, Nota in Brevis, Saints |
On Sunday 24 April 2022 while we were celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday on that day fell the feast of the brave Capuchin saint St Fidelis von Sigmaringen. Who was this great man of faith? Markus was born in the German town of Sigmaringen in 1578. In those days Sigmaringen was a small Danube town, located[…]
The post The Outstanding Testimony of St Fidelis von Sigmaringen appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages |
We start the day at the top of the Mount of Olives to visit Pater Noster where Jesus taught his disciples to pray the Our Father. Then to Mass at Gethsemane — always a very emotional site for the pilgrims. Lunch at the Ramat Rachel Kibbutz. Then to the lookout over Jerusalem where I give […]
The post Israel 6 All Day Jerusalem: Gethsemane, Mt. Zion & Mt. of Olives appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | America, Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Eucharist, holiness, Liturgy, Mass, News, The Dispatch, Vatican II |
Imagine two baseball diamonds. One is pristine: grass closely cropped, perfectly even terrain, brightly chalked foul lines, a smooth warning track, and padded walls decorating the whole perimeter. The other is unkept: grass patches interspersed […]
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For decades all indicators of Catholic health—vocations, Mass attendance, baptisms—have been falling. Now new data suggests that Covid has accelerated those trends. Can we do anything to reverse the exodus?
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | News, United Kingdom |
John Wilkins was editor of The Tablet for 21 years until 2003. He had previously been assistant editor of the paper in 1967 but left to join the BBC, rejoining it as editor in 1982. During his time as editor, circulation of The Tablet almost tripled. He was born in 1936, he went to Clare
The post John Wilkins, the ‘lovable’ former editor of the Tablet, dies at 85 appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Editor's Desk, News |
The Left’s darling Twitter alternative reveals their love of censorship.
Pope Francis greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on June 4, 2014. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Vatican City, Apr 26, 2022 / 11:45 am (CNA).
With the appointment of two secretaries at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the confirmation…
Dennis Schroeder at his home in Windthorst, Texas. / North Texas Catholic/Juan Guajardo
Fort Worth, Texas, Apr 26, 2022 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Dennis Schroeder’s home is filled with things he loves. More mounted deer heads than you can count on your…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | News, U.S. & World News |
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic leaders were thankful that death-row inmate Melissa Lucio was granted a last-minute stay of execution April 25, but they also said her sentence shows a failure in the use of capital punishment in this country and stressed that they would continue to pray for Lucio and her family and advocate on her behalf.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Last Week in the Church, News |
In this episode: Pope cancels summit with Russian Orthodox Patriarch, Pope thanks Hungarian PM Viktor Orban for refugee aid, why the future of the Church belongs to the ‘PINS’ nations, and Italy commemorates its liberation from WWII fascism.
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