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The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has welcomed Uniting for Ukraine, a Biden administration initiative that will allow up to 100,000 Ukrainians to enter the United States, but called on the administration and Congress to do more.
“The prog…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Repentance is not a sometime dimension of the Church’s message, occasionally trotted out at Lent and maybe in a raging pandemic. It is an essential, everyday message of the Church.
WASHINGTON – On April 19, the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality issued a rule restoring three regulatory provisions implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that were amended under the previous Administration, reinstating …
Read MoreReading I 1 Pt 5:5b-14
Beloved:
Clothe yourselves with humility
in your dealings with one another, for:
God opposes the proud
but bestows favor on the humble.
So humble yourselves under…
Read MoreA priest, Father Christophe, was stabbed 20 times in the Saint-Pierre d’Arene church in Nice, France, by a man police described as “mentally unstable.” A nun who tried to stop the attack was also stabbed in the arm.
In 2020, thre…
Read MoreThe Vietnam–Holy See Joint Working Group met in Hanoi on April 21-22.
Currently, the apostolic nuncio in Singapore also serves as pontifical representative to Vietnam. Following the meeting, the Vatican press office said that the parties had &ldq…
Read MoreCardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, the head of the Pope’s advisory Council of Cardinals, has written a book, “Praedicate Evangelium: A New Curia for a New Time,” on the new apostolic constitution on …
Read MoreIn a Spanish-language interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nación, Pope Francis said that “the Vatican never rests” in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine. “I cannot tell you the details because they would cease to be dip…
Read MoreOn April 22, Pope Francis appointed a Polish missionary, Father Krzysztof Kudlawiec, to lead the Diocese of Caule, Ecuador.
On February 2, Pope Francis created the Diocese of Caule from the territory of Archdiocese of Guayaquil. The Pontiff named an…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, Religious Sisters, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, war crimes |
One Indian religious sister serving in western Ukraine says Russian soldiers are “butchering” innocent civilians in areas of the country they have invaded.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | catholic priests, Church in Italy, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, World War II |
Just as faith can be abused to justify the most horrific acts of violence, it can also inspire the greatest acts of courage and self-sacrifice.
Read MoreOn April 22, Pope Francis tweeted, “We all need to make a contribution to halt the destruction of our common home and to restore nature: governments, businesses and citizens – we must act like brothers and sisters who share the Earth, the common …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | jubilee, lead, Missionaries, Missionaries of Mercy, News, Pope Francis, Rome, Vatican |
One Missionary of Mercy, who participated in a conference in Rome this weekend, has said the task of being special channels of God’s forgiveness and compassion is what he has always believed the priesthood is about.
Read MoreThe president of the French bishops’ conference has remarked that the country’s people made a “choice of reason” in re-electing President Emmanuel Macron.
Although the episcopal conference remained neutral during the presidenti…
Welcoming a delegation of Catholics from Sri Lanka to the Vatican on April 25, Pope Francis called for a thorough investigation of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 270 people in 2019.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo—who led the delegat…
“May the Holy Spirit transform our hearts and make us true peacemakers, especially for war-torn Ukraine,” Pope Francis wrote in an Easter message to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill.
The papal message was sent to the leaders of the Orthod…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Columns, News, Sojourns with Schall |
“But Barnabas took him (Paul), and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached […]
Read MoreHe whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou, And…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | In the News, News |
Russia’s invasion has roiled global markets, revived the NATO alliance and triggered war crimes investigations. It has also opened a…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | In the News, News |
Extending Easter greetings to the various Orthodox churches on Sunday, Pope Francis also renewed his call for a truce in Ukraine,…
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