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Pondicherry is located in southern India. Dalits, once more commonly known as “untouchables” (Encyclopaedia Britannica article), have been protesting the appointment of a non-Dalit archbishop there.
Read MoreOn World Press Freedom Day (May 3), Pope Francis tweeted, “Let us #PrayTogether for the journalists who pay in person, with their lives or imprisonment, to serve this right. Special thanks to those who courageously inform us of the wounds of hum…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The normalization and ubiquity of divorce has encouraged commitment aversion, which has had a corrosive effect on all of society.
In new interview, Francis reveals that he’s requested a meeting with Russia’s president, while issuing his first-ever criticism of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Holy See diplomacy, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
Pope Francis hasn’t made much of a diplomatic mark in Russia’s war in Ukraine, seemingly unable to capitalize on his moral authority, soft power or direct line to Moscow to nudge an end to the bloodshed or at least a cease-fire.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – In response to the leak of a draft opinion in the Supreme Court case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Li…
Read MoreReading I Acts 8:1b-8
There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem,
and all were scattered
throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria,
except the Apostles.
Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over…
Posted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vladimir Putin |
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has denied that Russia has attacked anyone, despite its ongoing conflict with neighboring Ukraine, saying it has merely defended its borders.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Abortion, Church in the US, lead, News, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court |
Sherif Girgis said he felt “kind of a gut punch” after the draft of a Supreme Court majority decision was recently leaked late on May 2. The former law clerk at the nation’s high court called it an “astonishing and appalling” move by the leaker.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | America Media, Baylor University, Catholic Charities, covid, COVID vaccines, Father James Martin, LGBT, News, polemics, The Dispatch |
A Vigorous Debate – A dialogue about the nature of analogies, computers, human nature and supernature. Whose pantheism? Which dualism? A Reply to David Bentley Hart (Edward Feser, Blogspot) Vaccine side-effects – There has been […]
Read MoreOn April 30, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches, spoke about his predecessor Cyril VI of Constantinople (1769-1821). Recently canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Cyril VI was slain by order…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Communism, Fr. Alexander Men, News, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodoxy, Soviet Union, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin |
I’ve been thinking recently about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” and its relationship to a deceased Russian Orthodox priest. As the Soviet Union was crumbling in 1990, two roads metaphorically diverged in a […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Marietta Lea B. Rosana. My Life’s Dream amidst the silence of the sky the flowers’ laughter is heard with the faint melody of life’s longing here in this sacred space my “am-ness” I find: scent o…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Abortion, America, Features, News, Opinion, President Joe Biden, Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS, St. Augustine |
As reactions to the leaking of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion continue to pour out, the debates over abortion are, once again, at the forefront of our nation’s concerns. And, as expected, the United States […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis told Vatican Secretary of State Parolin to tell Vladimir Putin he (the pope) is wiling to go to…
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Read MoreAs explicitly formulated, the precept “You shall not kill” is strongly negative: it indicates the extreme limit which can never…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Commentary, News |
On the one hand, his doctrine on peace has been centered on condemning the arms race and calling for the…
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The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | 2022, Abortion, Columns, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, embryology, Hadley Arkes, Leo Strauss, liberty will face an array of “competing interests”, News, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v.Casey overruled, pro-life arguments, Roe v. Wade overruled, The Catholic Thing, there cannot be a “right to do a wrong” |
I have to confess that when the news broke last night and I read that careful, exhaustive, impressive opinion from…
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