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Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania lamented the vindication of his own father in his desire to defend the murder of unborn children.
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Posted by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania lamented the vindication of his own father in his desire to defend the murder of unborn children.
Read MoreSponsored by Rep. Theodore Deutch (D-FL), the MINDS Act (Mental Health in International Development and Humanitarian Settings Act, H.R.3988) is “the first-ever US legislation to include mental health services in foreign assistance programming,&r…
Read MorePope Francis has written a message, dated July 8 and published July 12, to the members of the Commission for Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue in commemoration of the dialogue’s 50th anniversary.
“Over the past fifty years, the Commission,…
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The New Authoritarians – What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response (Brownstone […]
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Cookie-cutter philosophers will always cleverly label the wisdom of the ages as yesteryear’s worn-out fashion—as archaic ideas whose time has come and gone. They will attempt to free us from the very thing that gives us freedom.
Read MoreReading 1 IS 10:5-7, 13B-16
Thus says the LORD:
Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger,
my staff in wrath.
Against an impious nation I send him,
and against a people under my wrath I order him
To seize plunder, carry off loot,
and tread t…
Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, traveled to Tanzania to speak to the Bishops of the Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa. Ruffini asked the bishops to “appoint volunteer collaborators that can be relied upon as c…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Communio, Concilum, Joseph Ratzinger, News, Saint Pope John Paul II, Second Vatican Council, The Dispatch, War of the Conciliar Succession |
While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), I’ve riffed on those monikers to denominate a major struggle […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Contraception, Humanae Vitae, IVF, lead, News, News Analysis, Pontifical Academy for Life, Social media, Twitter |
There are 11 pontifical academies, but the Academy for Life has always been the most high-profile because it deals with the most sensitive issues in Catholic moral teaching, including birth control, abortion, euthanasia, IVF, and the family.
Read MoreIn a wide-ranging, two-hour interview, Francis answered- and dodged- questions about the war in Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic, the clerical sexual abuse scandals, abortion, his resignation, and why he doesn’t go back to his home country, Argentina.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Assassinations, Bishops, Church in Asia, Japan, lead, News, peace, Prayer, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Violence |
Days after the shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and as the war in Ukraine continues to rage, Japan’s bishops have issued statements condemning the violence and urging leaders to prioritize efforts toward dialogue and peace.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by James Scannell McCormick. Sts. Catherine and Margaret, with St. Joan of Arc Domrémy, 1425 I saw them well enough to know that they are saints in Paradise.* She’d bribed the forgetful sexton: fres…
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War is the reality of Ukrainian life. Which means it has become the Church’s reality — pastoral care by priests…
The post Ukraine: ‘God wipes away people’s tears’ appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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Lucas Koach, director of the Office of International Justice and Peace for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, warned that…
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The current conversation about gender seems to come out of nowhere, but is really the fruition of other cultural and…
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Pope Francis has described it as an “incoherence” that President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is in favor of legal abortion….
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The Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs decision is a gift that keeps on giving. And one of its benefits is clarity,…
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