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Posted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, News |
People who don’t like the pro-life movement often say it can’t really be concerned about the baby. Its concern stops at birth, they say, so it must have a hidden agenda, like oppressing women—especially poor […]
Read More“If a civilization is to be judged by how it treats its weakest members, the New South Wales parliament has failed miserably, and has set a dark and dangerous path for all posterity, determining a new and disturbing definition of what it means to…
Read More“Defenders of Francis’s strategy say the pope is maintaining a neutrality that has long been at the center of Holy See diplomacy,” the Post reports. “n a more critical telling, though, Francis is misperceiving the war and squand…
Read MoreFollowing a two-year hiatus because of Covid, the Coordinating Committee of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church held a five-day meeting in Crete.
The Committee is co-…
Read MoreDuring an ecumenical prayer service, Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin “asked forgiveness for the Church’s discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation” and described it as an “unholy line of tradition.&rdquo…
Read MoreThe Associated Press also published a summary of recent events in the Vatican financial trial.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Associated Press, China, Church in Asia, General Audience, Hong Kong, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican-China |
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China, voicing hope that the church there operates in “freedom and tranquility,’’ but making no mention of a 90-year-old cardinal who was recently arrested in Hong Kong.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Bishop Jose Baez, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, News, Nicaragua |
With two of its parishes under siege by the police, the Archdiocese of Managua in Nicaragua demanded that the government of Daniel Ortega call off the harassment of the Church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Abuse prevention, Cei, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Clerical Abuse, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Italian bishops, Italy, lead, News, rete l'Abuso |
A collective of abuse survivors and advocacy groups have published an open letter to the Italian bishops as they meet to elect new leadership, calling for an independent national inquiry into clerical abuse.
Read MoreSeven cardinals gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica to offer a Mass for the repose of the soul of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin (1922-2008), 100 years after the prelate’s birth.
One of the most influential prelates during Pope St. John Paul II&…
Read More“Today I have been persecuted all day long by the Sandinista police, from the morning until this hour of the night and at all times, in all my movements during the day,” Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa said on May 19.
Daniel Or…
Read MoreOfficials of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and the Synod of Bishops held an online listening session with 30 persons with disabilities from 20 countries. The theme of the May 19 gathering was “The Church is your home: The contribut…
Read MoreJoined by the Irish singer Bono, Pope Francis launched the papal educational foundation Scholas Occurrentes as an international movement and emphasized girls’ education and the implementation of Laudato si’, his 2015 encyclical on care f…
Read MoreDuring a three-day visit to Ukraine, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, said that the Holy See is “completely committed’ to Ukraine’s territorial integrity” and visited …
Read MoreThe Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has announced its plans for Laudato Si’ Week, which is named after the Pope’s 2015 encyclical letter on care for our common home.
“Today, Laudato Si’ Week begins, to li…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China, voicing hope that the church there operates in…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Commentary, News |
Abp. Cordileone has banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist in San Francisco; Cardinal Gregory will likely allow her to…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Commentary, News |
The spirit of “daring to do all we can,” while it is meant to characterize our approach to the Eucharist…
The post Daring to do all we can appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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