Catholic News Service to cease domestic operations at year’s end (CNS)
Catholic News Service is the US bishops’ news agency; its New York and Washington bureaus will close, resulting in the layoff of 21 employees.
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Catholic News Service is the US bishops’ news agency; its New York and Washington bureaus will close, resulting in the layoff of 21 employees.
Read MoreIn a message to a Vatican conference on the cultural heritage of religious orders, Pope Francis wrote that “the disposal of heritage is a particularly sensitive and complex issue, which can attract misleading interests on the part of unscrupulou…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Africa, Algeria, conversion, England, France, George Orwell, News, Père Charles de Foucauld, secularism, The Dispatch |
On May 15 the Catholic Church will canonize Père Charles de Foucauld, a missionary priest active in French Algeria just over a century ago. But his rank of sainthood comes with rancor. Critics of France’s […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
While violence and destruction are bad for the average person and the humanitarian of any status, they are a good thing for the bottom line of companies who can make large amounts of money off of them.
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Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA).
It’s likely that many of the priests, cardinals, and bishops working inside the Vatican knew her face, although no one knew the real story o…
European Commission’s proposal to sanction the head of the Russian Orthodox Church over his support of the invasion of Ukraine.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, bishop promoter of Stella Maris, the apostolate of the Catholic Church for the people of the sea, is inviting dioceses in the United States to mark the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Marine…
Read MoreReading I Acts 8:26-40
The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
“Get up and head south on the road
that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”
So he got up and set out.
Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch,
a court official …
Everybody has a vocation, a call to service within the Church, not just those in ordained ministry or consecrated life.
Read MoreEverybody has a vocation, a call to service within the Church, not just those in ordained ministry or consecrated life.
Read MoreBishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier, Germany, has announced the suspension of the beatification cause of Father Joseph Kentenich (1885-1968), the founder of the Schönstatt Apostolic Movement, as abuse allegations are investigated.
Following the …
Read MoreCardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (CNEWA profile), called for a democratic Iraq in all citizens are truly equal, whatever their “religious affiliation, ethnicity or gender” may be.
Islam is …
Read MoreThe European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, is proposing sanctions against Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Politico reported. The Commission describes the head of the Russian Orthodox Church as “one of the most prominent supporters of t…
Read MoreTwo weeks after his Vatican meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Pope Francis revealed in an interview that Orban told him that Russia plans to end the war on May 9, which Russia commemorates as Victory Day.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | lead, News, Pope Francis, Synod of Bishops, synodality, Vatican |
The Vatican office organizing a major 2023 Vatican summit on synodality held a preparation meeting last week, saying the Synod of Bishops has already begun.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Arizona, capital punishment, Church in the US, Court, Death penalty, Executions, lead, News, Tucson |
With Arizona set to carry out its first executions in almost eight years the state’s Catholic bishops fear that once the practice resumes it will be hard to stop.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Albino murders, Church in Africa, lead, Malawi, Murder, News |
A Catholic priest in Malawi is one of a dozen people convicted over the murder of a man living with albinism.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Gratitude, News, Prayer, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Surrender & Strength |
“Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.” Saint Francis de Sales Dear Blessed Mother, You may wonder why I am writing this letter to you. As I reflected on you during Eucharistic ad…
Read MoreIn his message for the 59th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis says that the variety of different vocations enriches the Church and shows the breadth of God’s plan, “like the tiles of mosaic.”
The World Day of Prayer for…
Posted by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | In the News, News |
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill delivered a homily in which he firmly denied that Russia has launched an attack against Ukraine….
The post Patriarch Kirill: “Russia has never attacked anyone” appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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