Month: July 2022

Catholic former soldier Tom Tugendhat enters race to be next Prime Minister

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News, United Kingdom |

A Catholic MP has thrown his hat in the ring to be the next Prime Minister following the downfall of Boris Johnson. Tom Tugendhat, the Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, announced his intention to stand as leader of the Government on the on the same day Mr Johnson resigned from office. A former

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Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by ‘senseless’ assassination of Shinzo Abe (Vatican News)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, has sent a telegram of condolence in the Holy Father’s name following the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.

“In the wake of this sensele…

‘Deeply disturbing and tragic’: bishop chairman responds to executive order on abortion access (USCCB)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

“It is deeply disturbing and tragic that President Biden is choosing … to use his power as President of the United States to promote and facilitate abortion in our country, seeking every possible avenue to deny unborn children their most basic …

Ruling clears Louisiana to enforce near-total abortion ban (AP)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

A Louisiana judge has allowed the state’s Human Life Protection Act to go into effect, thus protecting unborn children from abortion, except when the life of the mother is endangered.

A different state judge had earlier issued a temporary res…

Cultivate the Conscience of a Good Samaritan

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | conscience, Featured, Good Samaritan, News, Virtue |

Det 30:10-14; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated last week while delivering a public campaign speech in the Nara region of Japan. The brutal murder of this beloved leader shocked the populace and the world and has rightly been […]

Are these the two women Pope Francis will appoint to the Dicastery of Bishops?

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News, Vatican |

Bohumil Petrik/CNA.

Vatican City, Jul 11, 2022 / 01:11 am (CNA).
The two new female members of the Dicastery of Bishops are likely two religious sisters already well-known in the Vatican, a source has told Catholic News Agency.Pope Francis anno…

Defibrillator dramas show Church as focus of Italy’s good, bad and ugly

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Church in Europe, Italy, lead, News, theft |

At the same moment three parishioners were being honored in northern Italy for having used a defibrillator to save a life during Mass, at another Catholic parish in the southern part of the country, their own defibrillator was being ripped off.

Sri Lanka cardinal urges president, prime minister to keep word on resignation

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Caritas, Church in Asia, Corruption, Economic crisis, government, lead, News, Sri Lanka |

Sri Lanka’s top prelate has urged the country’s political leaders to make good on their promise to resign this week and has voiced hope that a new government will be able to bring the South Asian nation out of its current woes.

‘Marriage tax’ hits poor US couples hardest, study shows (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

The “marriage tax”—the extra taxes that a couple pays if they are marry—probably discourages many young Americans from marriage, according to a new study by the National Bureau for Economic Research.
The study finds that the ef…

Text from Pontifical Academy for Life questions ban on contraception (La Nuova Bussola (Italian))

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

A new volume from the Vatican publishing house, representing the work of a conference sponsored last year by the Pontifical Academy for Life, suggests a fresh look at the Church’s condemnation of artificial contraception.
The text argues: &ldquo…

Lebanese prelate warns against bid to ‘sabotage’ new government (Fides)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

Maronite Catholic Patriarch Bechara Rai has warned that the country’s political crisis “count deteriorate further” if political parties continue to delay formation of a new government.
Partisan posturing, he said, can only threaten t…

SSPX now 5th-largest religious congregation of Catholic priests (SSPX)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

With the ordination of 17 men to the priesthood this summer, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) now claims to be “the fifth largest religious congregation of ordained priests among its professed members,” with over 700 priests.
Only the Jesu…

September beatification set for ‘Smiling Pope’ John Paul I (Vatican News)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

The beatification of Pope John Paul I will take place on September 4, the Vatican has announced.
Pope Francis is schedule to preside at the beatification ceremony for the “Smiling Pope,” born Albino Luciani, whose 33-day pontificate is the…

Sri Lanka: cardinal prods president to honor resignation promise (Crux)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, who last week urged Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign, is now insisting that the ousted leader must honor his pledge to step down.
Rajapaksa said that he would resign after huge crowds occup…

Pope urges young to be ‘new face of Europe’ (Vatican News)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

In a message to the European Union Youth Conference, taking place this week in Prague, Pope Francis called upon participants to “present the world with a new face of Europe.”
The Pope contrasted this “new face” with the Europea…

Vatican trial: defendant says Pope authorized loan for London property (CNA)

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News |

In testimony before a Vatican tribunal, a former official of the Secretariat of State has confirmed that Pope Francis personally approved a loan to cover the costs of a controversial London real-estate venture.
Fabrizio Tirabassi, who is now a defenda…

Scandal

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | News, Notable |

She hastens out and scarcely pins her clothes To hear the news and tell the news she knows; She talks…

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Inflation is a moral evil

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Commentary, News |

Any government policy that either deliberately or predictably harms the poor and the elderly is immoral. Inflation harms the poor…

The post Inflation is a moral evil appeared first on The Catholic Thing.

Biden protects ‘right’ to kill unborn

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | In the News, News |

The President of the United States, claiming repeatedly that abortion is “health care” and calling abortion drugs “medication,” signed an…

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Attacks on pregnancy centers ongoing

Posted by bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | In the News, News |

Nationally, 35 pro-life pregnancies centers have been damaged by vandalism since May 2. On July 8, two Massachusetts centers were…

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Month: July 2022

Catholic former soldier Tom Tugendhat enters race to be next Prime Minister

Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by ‘senseless’ assassination of Shinzo Abe (Vatican News)

‘Deeply disturbing and tragic’: bishop chairman responds to executive order on abortion access (USCCB)

Ruling clears Louisiana to enforce near-total abortion ban (AP)

Cultivate the Conscience of a Good Samaritan

Are these the two women Pope Francis will appoint to the Dicastery of Bishops?

Defibrillator dramas show Church as focus of Italy’s good, bad and ugly

Sri Lanka cardinal urges president, prime minister to keep word on resignation

‘Marriage tax’ hits poor US couples hardest, study shows (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Text from Pontifical Academy for Life questions ban on contraception (La Nuova Bussola (Italian))

Lebanese prelate warns against bid to ‘sabotage’ new government (Fides)

SSPX now 5th-largest religious congregation of Catholic priests (SSPX)

September beatification set for ‘Smiling Pope’ John Paul I (Vatican News)

Sri Lanka: cardinal prods president to honor resignation promise (Crux)

Pope urges young to be ‘new face of Europe’ (Vatican News)

Vatican trial: defendant says Pope authorized loan for London property (CNA)

Scandal

Inflation is a moral evil

Biden protects ‘right’ to kill unborn

Attacks on pregnancy centers ongoing

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