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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Featured, fundraising, News |
I just took a look at our fundraising results for last month’s campaign and realized that we’re only made it to halfway of our fundraising goal. I understand that 2022 is a tough economic landscape. With inflation and gas prices sky high, I know that expenses are high and discretionary income less than what it […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Featured, News, Pentecost, Scripture Speaks |
On Resurrection Day, Jesus breathed on His disciples, a gesture odd in itself but packed with meaning for our celebration of Pentecost today. Gospel (Read Jn 20:19-23) Today’s Gospel tells us that Jesus surprised the disciples “on the evening of that first day of the week” by appearing in their midst without using a door […]
“The animals are dying and there is much hunger among the people,” said Father Ibrahim Racho, vicar general of the Diocese of Marsabit (map).
“We are in an emergency situation,” added Father Gerald Matolo of Makueni County (…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Featured, News, Ordinary Time |
This winter was my first full winter as an oil painter. And, as I scoped the scenery for reference photos or places to paint on location, I found myself looking for and noticing more colors than just gray and brown. There was burnt sienna – a rich, reddish brown – everywhere. There were patches of […]
David Kertzer, a Brown University professor who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work on Vatican-Italian relations under Pope Pius XI and Mussolini, has written a new book on Pope Pius XII, Hitler, and Mussolini. This article is an excerpt from…
Read MoreEU sanctions require the unanimous consent of EU member states. According to the report, Hungary cited religious freedom in objecting to sanctions against the Russian Orthodox leader.
Read More“The Russian invasion of Ukraine did not only bring war to the country, but it has also questioned the entire security order in Europe and the world,” said Father Manuel Barrios Prieto, General Secretary of COMECE, the Commission of the Bis…
Read MoreThe week begins on June 22 (the memorial of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher) and concludes on June 29 (the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul). From 2012 to 2017, a similar initiative (the Fortnight for Freedom) lasted from June 22 to July 4.
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Read MoreThe June papal prayer intention is “We pray for Christian families around the world; may they embody and experience unconditional love and advance in holiness in their daily lives.”
“The family is the place where we learn to live …
Read MoreIn 2021, “458 new permanent deacons were ordained in the responding arch/dioceses,” according to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. “At the same time, 512 deacons retired from active ministry and another 393 deacons died.”
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In 2018, Pope Francis approved the Australian bishops’ request to convoke their first plenary council (definition) since 1937.
At the final gathering of the plenary council in July, participants will consider 30 motions.
Read MorePope Francis will not be visiting Manitoba (map) during his upcoming apostolic journey to Canada.
“The Catholic Church has to accept ownership and responsibility for what happened to First Nations people and their families, the negative exper…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Long before corporate America and the public school system were grooming children into adopting a rainbow way of life, Hugh Hefner was grooming generations into fornication and sexual debauchery.
Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, OFM, of Manaus, Brazil, is one of the new cardinals announced by Pope Francis on May 29.
A city of 2.2 million, Manaus is the largest city in Brazil’s North Region (map), which is roughly coextensive with t…
Read MoreAt the Vatican’s request, the ordinations to the priesthood and diaconate scheduled in the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon for June have been postponed, amid a Vatican investigation into Bishop Dominique Rey’s seminary, as well as his accepta…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The race that does not accept respect for man from the time of his conception, is destined to an ignominious end, because it distorts the concept of love of neighbor, mistakes it with egoism, and cannot conceive the love of God at all.
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Poland, Religious Sisters, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Friday marks the 100th day since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. Almost seven million people have had to flee the country since then, most of them women and children.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Cei, disability, Italian bishops, lead, News, Pope Francis, theology of disability, Vatican |
Several experts on disability who are also pioneers in developing a more profound theology of disability have said the Catholic Church under Pope Francis is making good strides in terms of welcome and acceptance.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Bishop Appointment, Bishop Robert Barron, Church in the US, lead, News, Wisconsin |
Bishop Robert Barron will be installed as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester on Friday, July 29.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — After multiple mass shootings in recent weeks, four bishop chairmen joined in a letter to Congress expressing their grief over these incomprehensible tragedies. Their letter calls on members of Congress to, “unite in our humanity to stop t…
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