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“It’s unfortunate that some legislators would rather focus on breaking marriages than fixing them or strengthening marital bond,” Father Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the public affairs committee of the bishops’ confe…
Read MoreThe Australian bishops’ plenary council, thrown into crisis following a vote on the female diaconate, has passed resolutions on the sexual abuse of minors and on the incorporation of some indigenous symbols into the sacred liturgy.
“Ab…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | appointment of bishops, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Women |
In the teeth of liberal opposition, Pope Francis says he wants to give women more high-level positions within the Holy See. According to Reuters, the Pontiff will name women to a previously all-male committee which helps him select Catholic bishops. A new constitution for the Holy See’s administration – which came into effect in June
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Read MoreEurope is facing a major split, with the more nationalist, conservative and largely Catholic central and eastern EU states increasingly going their own way, against a more liberal, progressive and secular western Europe. The fact this division is continuing despite the ongoing war in Ukraine suggests this unhappy marriage between two competing views of Europe
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Roe is not just a legal opinion, nor is it simply a political issue. Roe v. Wade is a philosophy. Roe is over, but the philosophy of Roe is still here. And it is the philosophy of Roe that also needs to be culturally overturned.
In 2016, the Congregation for the Clergy published a document on the formation of men for a priesthood. The US bishops then began to revise their Program of Priestly Formation (PPF) in light of the Vatican document, and approved a new edition of the …
Read MoreFollowing the Highland Park parade shooting, the chairmen of three committees of the bishops’ conference called on “Catholics, lawmakers, community leaders, health care and social service providers, law enforcement, and families to keep pu…
Read MoreCardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, sent a message to the International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief, which was hosted by the UK government.
UK Foreign Secre…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | conscience, Liturgy, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Second Vatican Council, synodality, The Dispatch, Vatican II |
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) was a unique ecumenical council. The previous twenty were assembled to address particular doctrinal or ecclesial crises, while John XXIII called Vatican II to layout a new pastoral program for […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Though we have achieved a victory, these are still the times that try men’s souls. The-end-justifies-the-means Left has been dealt a blow; but like Bilbo in the cave of Smaug this is just the awakening.
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Church in Asia, Church in India, funeral, Goa, India, Indian Bishops, lead, News |
The former archbishop of Archdiocese of Goa and Daman in India was remembered as a man who faced “all challenges with courage” during his funeral on July 4.
Read MoreReading 1 HOS 11:1-4, 8E-9
Thus says the LORD:
When Israel was a child I loved him,
out of Egypt I called my son.
The more I called them,
the farther they went from me,
Sacrificing to the Baals
and burning incense to idols.
Yet it…
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. / fotogoocom via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0).
Rome Newsroom, Jul 7, 2022 / 02:20 am (CNA).
Legal experts have called “inaccurate and misleading” a proposed resolution by the European Parliament to includ…
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, is visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan in the Pope’s place, following the Pope’s decision to postpone his apostolic journey there at the advice of…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Church in the Americas, lead, Missionaries of Charity, News, Nicaragua |
After the government of Daniel Ortega formally banned the work of the Missionaries of Charity in Nicaragua, the religious were forced out of the country in a minibus, patrolled as criminals by the police.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Chicago, Church in the US, Gun violence, lead, mass shooting, News, USCCB |
In the wake of another mass shooting in the U.S. earlier this week, multiple U.S. Bishops Conference committee chairmen are appealing to people from different walks of life to help advocate against the nation’s trend of gun violence.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Catholic Action, Church in Europe, Italy, lead, News, Nonviolence, peace, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis |
Next week 150 representatives of different Catholic and social organizations in Italy will travel to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to march for peace as part of a non-violence response to the ongoing war with Russia.
Read MoreThe prefect of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development has called attention to the plight of seafarers who have been unable to leave their ships because of restrictions imposed during the Covid lockdown.
In a message for Sea Sunday, which will be…
Posted by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Dream Bigger, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts |
Being a “dreamer” often has a bad reputation. Dreamers aren’t seen as realistic or reliable. They have their heads in the clouds; they need to get their feet on the ground and accomplish something. Sometimes parents crush the dreams of youth and young adults, telling them that their dreams aren’t realistic and they need to […]
Pope Francis expressed confidence that Vatican financial reforms would prevent future scandals, in his extended interview with the Reuters news service.
When questioned as to whether new rules would prevent something like the disastrous investment in …
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