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Posted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Benedictine, Featured, News, St. Benedict |
As my children grew and began to leave the nest, I had thought that life would slow down. It didn’t. In fact, life seemed to be accelerating at a pace that I could no longer maintain. Seeking balance in life, I did an online search for a book. With more than 10,000 options to choose […]
Posted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, Elderly, General Audience, News, News Briefs, Pope Francis, Prayer, suffering, Vatican, Vatican News |
Pope Francis’ general audience in St. Peter’s Square, May 18, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, May 18, 2022 / 04:20 am (CNA).
Pope Francis urged Catholics on Wednesday to feel free to protest spontaneously to God when faced with suffer…
“It’s safe to assume the Vatican won’t be shedding too many tears for Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun,” Alex Lo, a pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspaper columnist, wrote following the prelate’s arrest. “There has been no fierc…
Read MoreEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in a surprise move, recently granted recognition to the 1.3-million member Macedonian Orthodox Church.
The church (CNEWA profile) broke away from the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1967.
Read MorePope Francis has written a chirograph, dated March 19 and published May 17, that establishes the pontifical foundation Scholas Occurrentes as a private association of the faithful of an international character.
Founded in Buenos Aires by the futur…
Read MoreOn May 13, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Dominik Duka, 79, as Archbishop of Prague (in Czechia, also known as the Czech Republic), and appointed Archbishop Jan Graubner of Olomouc, 73, as his successor.
“I think the importa…
Read MoreA deconstructed church and an unexpected apology
Read MoreFrancis tells participants of a global conference against child exploitation that ensuring the present and future of children is ensuring the present and future of the entire human family
Read MoreFrancis tells participants of a global conference against child labor that ensuring the present and future of children is ensuring the present and future of the entire human family
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
A young Christian woman in Nigeria was murdered for alleged blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammed by a group of Muslim youths. This is not the first time such an atrocity has happened there.
“When Étienne Villemain [the executive director], the ‘enfant terrible,’ who brought this project together with so many others, first told me about it, I could not help but tell him that I was wary of what the Holy Spirit might i…
Read More“It took the validation of unmarked graves (to) put us in this moment,” Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation said during a conversation with Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina, Saskatchewan. “We are truly at a moment whe…
Read MorePope Francis has sent a message to Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, for the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour.
The May 15-20 conference is taking place in Durban, South Africa.
Read More“God is only communicated if He dwells in our lives, if He fills our affections, if He unites our thoughts and inspires our actions,” Pope Francis said in an address to pilgrims from the Institute of the Maestre Pie Filippini, and of the …
Read MoreA genetic condition, Cornelia de Lange syndrome “causes discomfort and great difficulties for those who are affected by it and for their family members,” Pope Francis said in an address to members of the Cornelia de Lange Association.
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Posted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
In today’s public discourse, all opposition is perceived as contradictory: One can support either a conservative politician or the dignity of women. One can eat meat or be environmentally conscious. There’s no third option.
Posted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Abortion, American Catholics, Canon Law, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mass shootings, monotheism, News, pro-life, progressives, The Dispatch, totalitarianism, Traditional Latin Mass |
Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […..
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Abortion, American Catholics, Canon Law, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mass shootings, monotheism, News, pro-life, progressives, The Dispatch, totalitarianism, Traditional Latin Mass |
Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […..
Read MoreReading I Acts 15:1-6
Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers,
“Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice,
you cannot be saved.”
Because there arose no little dissension and debate
by Paul a…
Posted by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Ecumenism, lead, News, News Analysis, President Vladimir Putin, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican |
Papal statements on Ukraine seem almost deliberately calculated to keep people guessing.
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