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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | American founding, Anti-Catholicism, Catholicism, Charles Carroll, Fourth of July, Jean Baptiste Richardville, News, Protestantism, The Dispatch |
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on July 3, 2016. In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in […]
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Many of the ancient world’s best and brightest—Plato and Aristotle in particular—held democracy to be among the worst possible forms of government because the great majority of men and women are ruled not by their reason but by their passions.
Readings for the Independence Day
Reading 1 HOS 2:16, 17C-18, 21-22
Thus says the LORD:
I will allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak to her heart.
She shall respond there as in the days of her youth,
when she came up…
Two more Catholic priests were kidnapped in Nigeria on July 2, less than a week after the funeral of another priest who was killed in a kidnap attempt.
Fathers Peter Udo and Philemon Oboh were stopped on the road as they returned from Benin City; thei…
Pope Francis scoffed at reports that he might soon resign, said that he may yet travel to Ukraine and Moscow, and commented on the US Supreme Court’s decision on abortion, in his latest published interview.
In a conversation with Philip Pullella…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | In the News, News |
In a recent interview, Pope Francis criticized “ideological exploitation” of the Catholic Church in Latin America. The pope specifically mentioned…
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It was a banner-day for parental rights in education and for the full flowering of the free exercise of religion…
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By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to New York’s vaccine mandate for health care workers…
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“Progressives” claim the U.S. began in 1619, with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. Yes, the Founding…
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Read MoreWe pray, O almighty and eternal God, who through Jesus Christ has revealed thy glory to all nations, to preserve…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | Daily Quote, liberty, News |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, …
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It may appear mythical to younger readers (and some not so young), but there was a time, and not so…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | Bible, Daily Verse, freedom, News |
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1) Print this entry
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Entrance Antiphon, Cf. Sir 36:18-19:Give peace, Lord, to those who wait for you; hear the prayers of your servants and guide us in the way of justice.Preface:It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you than…
Read MoreCardinal Claudio Hummes, an influential Brazilian prelate who was a close friend of Pope Francis and a leader among the liberal members of the College of Cardinals, dies of lung cancer on July 4 at the age of 87.
Ordained as a Franciscan in 1958, th…
Read MoreOn July 2, the day Pope Francis had planned to begin an apostolic journey to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, the Pontiff addressed a video message to the peoples of the two nations.
The Pope postponed the apostolic journey a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, News, Novus Ordo Mass, Pope Francis, Roman Missals, Sacrosanctum Concilium, The Dispatch, Tridentine Mass, Vatican II |
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass has become like a problematic marriage needing long-suffering, patience, goodwill, and hatred o…
Read MoreTwo missionaries who were martyred in Zenta, Argentina, in 1683 were beatified on July 2 in San Ramón de la Nueva Orán. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, presided at the beatification Mass (video)…
Read MorePatriarch Raul Nicolau Gonsalves, who governed the Archdiocese Goa and Damão (India) from 1978 to 2003, died on July 1 at the age of 95.
Located in southwestern India, Goa (Encyclopaedia Britannica article) was the base of St. Francis Xavier&r…
Read MoreAs a Vatican athlete competed in the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria, Pope Francis sent a message to athletes who attended Mass at a Marian shrine there.
“The Mediterranean Games are a concrete witness of a type of sport which can …
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