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When I initially set out to write this piece, we were quietly and anxiously awaiting a decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health case that is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. This case concerns a Mississippi law, “The Gestational Age Act,” which limits abortion in the Magnolia State when a child is […]
Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, was the scene of a mass shooting on May 14, 2022. / Andre Carrotflower via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Washington D.C., May 17, 2022 / 05:17 am (CNA).
The U.S. Catholic bishops appealed on Monday for “an…
Posted by bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Featured, Holy Spirit, News, Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit |
For many followers of Christ, there is an understanding, love and prayer that we offer to Jesus. He points us to the Father and consequently we pray the Our Father, as sons and daughters of the Father should pray. However, for more than a few of us the Holy Spirit, who indeed is the third Person of […]
We build skyscrapers, split the atom, design computers, and send men to the moon, but the most difficult and most important task remains undone, namely acknowledging our personal sins. Pride, the most deceptive of the Seven Deadly Sins, creates the illusion that we are better than we are and therefore renders critical self-examination unnecessary.“ I […]
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022, died on May 13. Pope Francis made an apostolic journey there in 2019.
Read More“My wish for you today is to learn from Charles de Foucauld, so as to have that experience of God that led him to evangelize by presence,” Pope Francis said in an address to young people from the Diocese of Viviers (France). “A discr…
Read More“Within the Catholic Church, the antagonism between the pro-democracy and pro-government camps became very serious, to the point of it being torn apart,” said Anthony Lam of Hong Kong Shue Yan University. “Some people saw [Cardinal Ze…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
George Weigel has long advocated for robust American interventionism throughout the world, in spite of mounting evidence of its repeated failure. Now he has set his sights on Russia, where the price of failure could very well be nuclear war.
“The Caritas network has been on the frontline since the beginning of the conflict, bringing lifesaving assistance to those who are in Ukraine and for those fleeing their homeland,” said Aloysius John, the secretary-general of Caritas Inter…
Read MorePatriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, deplored the use of force by Israeli police during the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Catholic and leading regional journalist who was killed on May 11.
Father Thomas Grysa, the…
Read MoreIn an address to participants in a moral theology conference on Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis said that “casuistry has been my and my generation’s food in the study of moral theology. But it is proper to decadent Thomism. The true Thomis…
Read MoreBlocking enforcement of the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, the court ruled that parents “have a fundamental right to direct the medical care of their children. This right includes the more specific right to treat their c…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Are children not the poorest of us all, their lives totally dependent upon the suffrage of others?
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis has appointed Reverend Mikael Bassale as Apostolic Administrator for the Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics of Eastern Europe. The appointment was publicized in Washington on May 17, 2022, by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apos…
Read MoreReading I Acts 14:19-28
In those days, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium
arrived and won over the crowds.
They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city,
supposing that he was dead.
But when the disciples gathered around him,
he g…
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, made his remarks the day after his subordinate, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher (the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States), offered similar comments.
Read MoreThe cathedral is located in Sokoto State (map), a predominantly Muslim state in northwestern Nigeria.
Read More“In the face of the recurring temptation to go back to raising national barriers, it stands out all the more that your work is at the service of encounter and brotherhood,” Pope Francis said in an address to managers and staff of Italy&rsq…
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the statement following shootings in Buffalo and California.
In addition to offering prayers, the bishops renewed their “call for an honest dialogue rooted in Christ in addressing the persistent …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Artists, Church in Europe, lead, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
An exhibit featuring the work of three Ukrainian painters opened in Rome this Saturday, with the support of Ukraine’s embassy to the Vatican and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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