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“Be on guard, stand firm for the faith, be courageous, be strong. your every act should be done with love.” (I Cor. 16:13-14) What is the virtue of faith? It is a theological virtue that unites us with God in whom we believe, in who He is, and in what He says through the Word […]
On July 7, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Sister Simone Campbell, the former Executive Director of Network.
The group, which sponsors the “Nuns on the Bus” l…
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In the 12th episode of the Merely Catholic podcast series for The Catholic Herald, Dr Gavin Ashenden talks to the highly distinguished European political scientist Professor John Loughlin, a Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow and former Tutor at St Edmund’s College, former Director of the Von Hügel Institute, and a Senior Fellow and
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Bishops Conference of England and Wales, children, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, lead, News, UK Parliament, United Kingdom |
A proposal to end the two-child limit for the UK’s Universal Credit is being praised as an attempt to end an “obvious and egregious form of discrimination against larger families.”
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Cardinal Joseph Zen. / Iris Tong via Wikimedia (Public Domain).
Strasbourg, France, Jul 8, 2022 / 04:24 am (CNA).
The European Parliament has called on the Vatican “to give full support to Cardinal Zen” and told the Holy See it should “strength…
In a 324-155 vote, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for abortion to be added to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Expressing their “support for women and girls in the US, as well as to those involved in both pr…
Read MoreThe incident took place at Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph Parish in Chicago, which “has hired security officers for weekend Masses, weddings, and parish events over the past three years,” according to the pastor, Father Lawrence Liso…
Read MoreA Catholic trade college, the College of St. Joseph the Worker, has been launched in Steubenville, OH, and is scheduled to open in 2023.
“Thus far, we have raised approximately $3 million,” said founder Jacob Imam. “To reach matu…
Read More“Both legal and illegal religious groups have been facing a renewed crackdown,” UCA News said in its report on the implementation of the practice in Guangdong Province (map).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Afghanistan, Asia, Freedom of Religion, India, Iraq, Liz Truss, Middle East, News, North Korea, Persecution of Chrisitians, Taliban, United Kingdom, World News |
Peninah was only 24-years-old when her husband Paul was murdered by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Kenya. Attackers with Kalashnikovs, lined the men up in the street and demanded they recite sections of the Koran. Paul was a Christian and they shot him. In Afghanistan, the Taliban dragged Zabi’s 60-year-old Christian father away into the night. After
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, Good Samaritan, News, Scripture Speaks |
Readings for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A scholar approaches Jesus to test Him with a legal question; Jesus answers with a question Himself. Why? Gospel (Read Lk 10:25-37) Today we are reading a very well-known portion of St. Luke’s Gospel—the parable of the Good Samaritan. It is fascinating to watch the progression of this episode. It […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | church closures, Editorials, Europe, News, Our Lady and St Paulinus Church, United States, USCCB |
While the decline of Christianity across the Western world, and especially in Europe, is well-documented, this does not give an entirely accurate picture of what is really going on. While Catholic church attendance is in sharp decline across western Europe, especially France, Germany and Spain, it is rising in the east. Meanwhile, the collapse of
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
There are certainly lies and lifestyles that discerning Catholics should discriminate, insofar as they are unhealthy and not conducive to human happiness and fulfillment.
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said on July 7 that “Ukraine is flowing with blood.”
“The epicenters of the confrontation were once again the cities of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, …
Read MoreThe vandalism at Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillsborough, NC, is one of at least 152 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States since May 2020.
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops has made public its list of dioceses that conducted—or failed to conduct—an audit of parishes in 2021 to ensure compliance with the bishops’ 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, whi…
Read More“The pills used to conduct what are known as medication abortions are becoming hotly contested in the US,” the report notes. “Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month and states began adding restrictions on abor…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
I knew instantly it was false when Cassidy Hutchinson told the January 6th committee that Trump tried to hijack the presidential SUV and, in the process, choked a Secret Service agent.
ROME – Saint Josemaria Escriva, founder of the Catholic organization Opus Dei, which emphasizes the dignity of everyday work, once famously told employees in a Spanish university he founded that the dean was no more important than the people who cleaned the classrooms. However noble-sounding that rhetoric may be, according […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father’s favourites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance (The Divine Mercy Novena) From[…]
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