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The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment (Human Life Action), which works closely with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in matters of pro-life legislation, warned that a proposed HHS rule “violates rights of conscience and religious…
Read More“What’s been proposed should be of no surprise,” said archdiocesan spokesman Deacon Tim McNeil. “The Church has been clear. Pope Francis has been clear. Pope Benedict was clear. Pope John Paul II was clear about this. [The] Cate…
Read MoreThe laws in Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas go into effect on August 25.
Read More“Iraqi Christians, and perhaps also Christians of other nations, will soon disappear if there is no change in thinking and national system,” warned Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church since 2013. &l…
Read MoreOne of Cardinal George Pell’s accusers died of a heroin overdose over eight years ago; his father, citing “nervous shock,” has filed suit against Archdiocese of Melbourne and Cardinal Pell. The prelate’s conviction was overturne…
Read MoreSin and selfishness have held sway in Sri Lanka in the nearly 75 years since the nation attained independence, the nation’s leading prelate said. “We want to bring a system change, and everyone must change their lives.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, contemplative prayer, COVID-19, Democratic Party, First Amendment, Guns, News, papal infallibility, Russia, The Dispatch, The Rosary, Transgender |
Short Histories – Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews. The Russian enigma (The Spectator) Papal Infallibility – “A pope speaks ex cathedra when he presents some teaching […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
The Black Lives Matter movement undercuts the legitimate—and consistent with Catholic Social Teaching—role of the police in our communities.
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, News, Spiritual Warfare |
The Devil hates Mary. I mean, he really hates her. He is over-the-top angry at God for allowing a small, poor, Jewish woman to become such a powerful enemy, one he is unable to defeat. When he tempts her, he’s like mosquito attacking an elephant; it must drive him crazy that she had the pleasure […]
Reading I Rv 21:9b-14
The angel spoke to me, saying,
“Come here.
I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
He took me in spirit to a great, high mountain
and showed me the holy city Jerusalem
coming down out of heaven from Go…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Asia - Pacific, Catholic Church in China, Catholic news, Catholicism in China, Chinese Communist Party, News, Sinicization, sinicization of religion, The Dispatch |
Flag of the People’s Republic of China / Yan Ke / Unsplash (CC0)
CNA Newsroom, Aug 24, 2022 / 02:21 am (CNA).
Chinese bishops allied with the government have promised to proceed with the “sinicization” of Catholicism in China.
During a nationa…
[For background, see “The Zanchetta affair (Part 1): the bishop’s rise.”]
Read More“Contraception is considered an intrinsically evil act,” said Father Maurizio Chiodi, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life since 2017. “I believe that we should not deny the existence of intrinsically evil acts, but that we nee…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | conservatives, foreign policy, Hitler, News, Russia, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War, World War II |
One of the more irritating tropes of this age in which sloganeering has replaced argumentation is the alleged distinction between “wars of choice” and “wars of necessity.” That distorted and distorting antinomy was first deployed […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Biblical Exposition, News, Pilgrimages, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Radio & TV Shows, Steve's, Sacraments & Sacramentals |
Register now to join the conversation with Steve Ray on “The Veil Removed” with interviewer Diane Rinehart who wrote, “We believe your conversion story, your love for the Eucharist, and your vast experience with pilgrimages to the Holy Land would all create great content!” So that is what we will do and — a whole […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Consistory, lead, News, News Analysis, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Papal conclave, papal resignation, Ukraine |
As much as papal politics may fascinate pundits and church affairs junkies, there’s a broad swath of the global Catholic population for whom they’re likely to seem irrelevant at best, and maybe even willfully oblivious to reality.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in Africa, Fulani, lead, News, Nigeria, Nuns, President Muhammadu Buhari |
“We are dealing here with a sustained campaign to wipe out Christianity in general and the Catholic church in particular. No Christian is safe,” said Johan Viljoen.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in Europe, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin |
Ukraine’s top-ranking Catholic prelate in the United States has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of genocide and has said Ukrainians will not back down from Russia’s “imperialist” agenda, but are willing to die to protect their freedom.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by John Lawrence Darretta. A Whisper in the Wind Word whirled in the wonder of creation wrought in the wood of the cross whispered in the wind of Pentecost Word filling my mouth expanding my heart i…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Faith, Knowledge, News, Sacraments |
Just because you’re not in your 20s — or you’re not in perfect health — doesn’t mean you’ve lost your chance to discern consecrated life. I talked with Robyn Lee — former managing editor of Catholic Digest — about her vocation story; with Sr. Sheila Ci…
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