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Loving Mary as my spiritual mother hasn’t always come easily for me. In fact, one of my earliest memories of learning about Mary in elementary school left me feeling conflicted, sad, and uncertain. I came home from my first grade class at the Catholic school I attended, holding a beautiful holy card with the image […]
Students from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, at a summer camp run by Catholic Extension / Catholic Extension
Washington D.C., Aug 1, 2022 / 06:33 am (CNA).
Students from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the site of the tr…
Students from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, at a summer camp run by Catholic Extension / Catholic Extension
Washington D.C., Aug 1, 2022 / 06:33 am (CNA).
Students from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the site of the tr…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Current Affairs, News, Politics/United States, Social Issues & Action |
People who visit my blog regularly know that I don’t just post about Bible study and apologetics. I also blog on matters I think I need to be heard about — things on my mind. This is one of those kinds of blogs. We are being fed a bunch of propaganda by the news media. […]
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St. Francis of Assisi. / Bradley Weber via Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0.
New York City, N.Y., Aug 1, 2022 / 06:18 am (CNA).
Today’s feast of Our Lady of the Angels of Porziuncola and its associated indulgence is a way to focus on the importance of Ma…
Cardinals Daniel DiNardo, Timothy Dolan, and Wilton Gregory, who serve as honorary chairmen of the advisory board of In Defense of Christians, have issued a statement in support of Archbishop Moussa El-Hage. The Maronite Catholic Archbishop of Haifa a…
Read MoreMajor Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, called on religious leaders and the international community to condemn recent Russian atrocities in Ukraine.
“Mykolayiv was shelled with cluster bombs, wher…
Read MoreThe bishops of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has elected Cardinal-designate Richard Kuuia Baawobr, MAfr, of Wa (Ghana) to a three-year term as president.
In addition to SECAM, the continental bishops’ …
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Map of Kazakhstan. / Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 1, 2022 / 05:05 am (CNA).
Plans are now set for Pope Francis to visit Kazakhstan in September for an interreligious meeting.Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, co…
Everett Ferguson, a Protestant elder, biblical scholar, and Church historian, has written what’s perhaps the definitive work on the subject, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries. Ferguson spends hundre…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
The rumour mill surrounding Pope Francis’ future will hardly have been calmed as the Pontiff returned from his “pilgrimage of penance” to Canada. Travelling back to Rome, the Pope told reporters he can no longer travel like he did because of knee problems, calling the visit “a bit of a test” which showed he needed
The post Door is open: Pope resignation rumours grow as he repeats phrase on future appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Europe, Immigration, Latin America, News, United Kingdom, United States |
The Catholic Church in the Anglosphere and western Europe is in no small part today being propped up by immigration, but this is not a long-term solution for the survival of the Church across the Western world. There are two key reasons for this: the first is the decline in Catholic affiliation in much of
The post Immigration cannot save Catholic Church in the West appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured, hymns, Music, News, sacred music, Sophia Excerpts |
In today’s installment, I humbly offer a solution to temptations against purity and a solution to bad church music. What Are They Thinking? • Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (d. 1591), as a young man, would become embarrassed when friends at the dinner table told lewd stories. (Today, such stories are paradoxically labeled “adult content.”) The young […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
What has not been widely addressed in the Church is whether abuse that takes place during the celebration of a sacrament is a sacrilege against that sacrament.
After returning to Rome following a seven-hour flight Canada, Pope Francis, as is his custom before and after his apostolic journeys, visited the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
Read MoreAt the conclusion of his apostolic journey to Canada, Pope Francis fielded questions from reporters during the flight to Rome, including a number of questions related to a possible papal resignation.
“I don’t think I can continue with …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
I have vowed for the last 50 years that I would never again allow evil to take me without a fight.
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