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Enzo Bianchi, the lay monk who founded the Bose ecumenical movement but was forced to leave that community, has announced plans to establish another community in northern Italy.
Bianchi said that he would establish the “Casa della Madia” i…
Four priests of the Diocese of Arecibo, Puerto Rico told the ACI Prensa news agency that they understood Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago had made an apostolic visitation of their diocese, leading up to the removal of Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres.
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The Vatican’s Congregation for Religious has stepped into a dispute between Archbishop Mario Antonio Cargnello of Salta, Argentina, and a local community of Discalced Carmelites.
The Congregation announced that an “apostolic assistant&rdqu…
A community of Cistercian nuns will move into the 172-year-old Our Lady of the Snows where the soon-to-be canonized “universal brother” lived in 1890
Read MoreThe North African country’s penal code punishes those who break the fast without a valid reason with a maximum of six months in prison
Read MoreI loved playing the harmonica when I was a kid. The first song I learned to play was “What can wash away my sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
But I could never play like this!
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages |
We call today the Optional Day. People either take a free day and do what they want or stay in Jerusalem or, they board the bus and do some fun things mostly down in the Judean Wilderness area. After Mass we started out for the Israel Museum, then drove 20 miles descending 4125 feet to […]
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Read MorePost pandemic heights, reduced Mass attendance numbers may have presented a unique opportunity for a renewed sense of communio in Eucharist
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Acts of the Apostles, Between the Sundays, discipleship, Featured, Living the Faith, Love, Mercy, mission, News, Paschal Mystery, Pope John Paul II, Resurrection, witness |
One word that reoccurs again and again in the opening chapters of Acts – and therefore in our daily Mass readings during these first days of Easter – is the word witness. Notice how Jesus commissions his Apostles: “But you shall receive pow…
Read More“La Croix Africa” takes the side of the victims
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Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres. / Diocese of Arecibo.
Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Apr 28, 2022 / 22:34 pm (CNA).
Four priests of the Diocese of Arecibo in Puerto Rico say they were told that Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago made a secret apostolic vi…
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“If you are as depressed as I am about the state of K-12 public education in America, one way to…
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The prospect of merging dioceses in the many countries with shrinking Catholic populations has long been discussed as a possibility…
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Read MoreIf we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | In the News, News |
Although the world knows that the Dalai Lama lives in exile and is the face of Chinese repression in Tibet,…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | In the News, News |
The new appointments are likely to lead to the creation of new cardinals. And it is not impossible that Pope…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | 2022, atheism v. faith, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christians v. atheists, Columns, David Carlin, David Carlin's "A House Divided", God, Lincoln's House Divided speech, News, The Catholic Thing |
In June of 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous “house divided” speech. Quoting Jesus, he said, “A house divided against…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Homily of the Day, News |
In the gospel, Jesus said, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” By these words, one would think that Jesus has already given us the way on how to get to know the Father. And yet one wonders why does getting to know […]
Read MoreEntrance Antiphon: Here is a wise virgin, from among the number of the prudent, who went forth with lighted lamp to meet Christ, alleluia.St. Catherine of Siena was born Catherine Benincasa in Siena at a date that remains uncertain, was favored with vi…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Daily Verse, Mercy, News |
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16) Print this entry
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