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“The scenario is frightening,” Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (CNEWA profile), said after protestors stormed the parliament in Baghdad. “Political leaders and also religious authori…
Read MorePatrick Kelly, a former Navy captain who was named Supreme Knight of the Catholic fraternal organization in 2021, highlighted the Knights’ support for crisis pregnancy centers and Ukrainian aid, and said that “the No. 1 thing you could do …
Read MoreBishop Hugo Alberto Torres Marín of Apartadó (map), a city of 200,000, decried “the murder of defenseless young people … attacks on police stations, [and] the consequent closure of schools and public services.”
Read MoreA coalition of 22 state attorneys-generals has filed a lawsuit “to stop the Biden Administration from enforcing an expansive and unlawful interpretation of federal antidiscrimination laws under the threat of withdrawing key food assistance progra…
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 3, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Abortion — a procedure with the sole or primary intent and purpose of ending human life in the womb — is never medically necessary, according to medical experts.Three …
The US state of Kansas – which is largely represented by Republicans in Congress but which has a Democratic Governor – has decided in a referendum to protect abortion access, in what could be seen as a rebuff of the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs. Although several states have moved to restrict abortion access since
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Vatican |
As the Catholic Herald recently reported, rumours continue to abound about Pope Francis’ future after the Holy Father recently told reporters he can no longer travel like he once did, and one day may have to retire. Pope Francis repeated a phrase – “the door is open” – adding that there was nothing wrong with
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Dobbs, Drag Queens, Florida, Gender ideology, Governor DeSantis, Jane's Revenge, News, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XII, Roe v. Wade, The Dispatch, TLM, Traditional Latin Mass |
Pius XII and the Jews – “The opening of the archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII has launched a new season of studies that will hopefully prove fruitful and stimulating.” On the already-public […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The pope has not bothered to call upon those faithful who love the old rite to speak with them. He has spent less time critiquing the old rite than he has spent belittling that small portion of the faithful who will not go along with his disdain.
The executive commission of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina has issued a statement ahead of the annual national pilgrimage in honor of St. Cajetan (background).
Requesting that the saint intercede for peace, bread, and work, the bishops noted…
Read MoreKansas voters have rejected the Value Them Both Amendment by a 59%-41% margin.
In 2019, the state’s highest court discovered a right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment would have nullified the decision and permitted legislat…
Read MoreArchbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, has joined the chairman of the California bishops’ Environmental Stewardship Committee in calling for support of …
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Pope Francis walked with a cane into Paul VI Hall for his Wednesday audience on Aug. 3, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Aug 3, 2022 / 03:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said Wednesday that Canada is in the process of “writing a new page” in t…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Other churches that have adopted a “Synodal Way” have experienced a loss of membership, a loss of doctrine, and a loss of identity.
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Africa, CAFOD, Church in UK and Ireland, England, food insecurity, lead, News |
Over 26 million people in Africa will face a food crisis this year due to poor harvests and drought conditions in many parts of the continent.
Read MoreReading 1 JER 31:1-7
At that time, says the LORD,
I will be the God of all the tribes of Israel,
and they shall be my people.
Thus says the LORD:
The people that escaped the sword
have found favor in the desert.
As Israel comes for…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Cardinal Juan José Omella, Church in Europe, lead, Medjugorje, News, Pope Francis, Youth |
Though still not officially recognized by the Vatican, pilgrims still stream to the town of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the alleged site of Marian apparitions. Pope Francis has sent a message to the Aug. 1-6 Mladifest youth festival, encouraging the attendees to have hope in today’s world. “The Lord knows how […]
Read MoreIn the most prominent front-page coverage in its August 2 edition, the Vatican newspaper recalled the fifth anniversary of the Myanmar military’s brutal campaign against the Rohingya people.
“At the time, hundreds of villages were dest…
Read MoreThe Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has announced that the Minnesota Council of Churches has written the text of the reflections that will be used internationally for the 2023 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (background).
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Bishop Paul Russell, an auxiliary of the Detroit archdiocese, has removed himself from public ministry while the Vatican investigates a sex-abuse complaint against him.
Bishop Russell was named as defendant in a lawsuit charging that he molested a you…
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