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Readings for the Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor of the Church
Reading I Acts 5:34-42
A Pharisee in the Sanhedrin named Gamaliel,
a teacher of the law, respected by all the people,
stood up, ordered the Apostle…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, Discalced Carmelites, lead, News, Pope Francis, Salta |
Conflict is brewing in a northern archdiocese of Argentina, where a group of cloistered nuns have made a formal allegation against the bishop for “gender violence.”
Read MoreOn April 28, Pope Francis received 2,000 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Lodz in Poland. The pilgrimage was ecumenical in nature, and included Orthodox and Calvinist leaders.
During his address, Pope Francis paid tribute to the archdiocese’…
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to restore stricter environmental regulations on infrastructure pro…
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court of Italy has ruled that the practice of children automatically receiving their father’s last name is “discriminatory and harmful.”
“In the wake of the principle of equality and in the interest of th…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Column, Magazine, May 2022, News, Patrick O'Brian, Pope Francis, War |
But the oppressed are doing an act of charity if they can persuade whoever is attacking them to see the error of his ways
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Read MoreArtist Adam Dant sets his woodcutter’s hand to remaking one of Caxton’s prints for Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
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Read MoreFilms on religious subjects can help us understand old stories in new ways, says film historian Matthew Page
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Read MoreThe grass is always greener in May, when the countryside is born anew and the sweet scent of hawthorn blossom fills the air
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Read MoreThe 16 martyrs who were the inspiration for Poulenc’s opera Les Dialogues des Carmélites are on the path to sainthood
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Column, cosmology, Magazine, May 2022, News, St. Thomas Aquinas |
There is much more to Aquinas’s cosmology than a divine “domino effect”
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Column, Features, Magazine, May 2022, News, Tafida Raqeeb Foundation, United Kingdom |
After winning permision to take their critically ill five-year-old daughter Tafida Raqeeb to a hospital abroad, her parents campaign to set up a specialist hospital in Britain
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Central America, Church in the US, Congress, Immigration, immigration reform, lead, News |
Hispanic Catholic leaders described the meetings with bipartisan legislators on April 27 as fruitful, and frank conversations where they detailed their stories, and the actions they want to see.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Bose Monastery, Church in Europe, Enzo Bianchi, lead, Monastic Life, News, Religious Life |
Italian lay monk Enzo Bianchi, founder of a popular ecumenical monastery who was exiled from the community as a result of internal tensions, has announced the formation of a new spiritual center in northern Italy.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Bose Monastery, Church in Europe, Enzo Bianchi, lead, Monastic Life, News, Religious Life |
Italian lay monk Enzo Bianchi, founder of a popular ecumenical monastery who was exiled from the community as a result of internal tensions, has announced the formation of a new spiritual center in northern Italy.
Read MorePsychological and social factors militate against us even trying to forgive
Read MoreAt an April 29 meeting with members of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, Pope Francis stressed the importance of the family as a “relational asset.”
The family, the Pope explained, should be recognized as an asset to society, not…
In May 2020, the Centers for Disease Control planned to advise churches that they should conduct services online, to curb the spread of Covid. But the Trump Administration blocked the proposal, citing religious-freedom issues, newly released email exch…
Read MoreSome priests in the Swiss Diocese of Chur are resisting a new code of conduct, charging that it is a bid to “implant LGBT ideology in the Church under the guise of assault prevention.”
The Chur Circle of Priests has objected to the code&md…
Although the special papal commission on sexual abuse has been incorporated into the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has assured the group that it will retain its autonomy.
At an April 29 audience with members of the Pontifical C…
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