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In a 2020 plebiscite, Chilean voters overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a new constitution to replace the 1980 constitution approved under Augusto Pinochet’s military regime. On September 4, voters will decide the fate of the newly drafted…
Read MoreOn the second day of their two-day meeting, the world’s cardinals had “an opportunity for free exchange on many aspects” of Praedicate Evangelium, the new apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia. They also discussed the 2025 jubil…
Read MoreThe Vatican is hosting a two-day summit organized by the Vitae Global Foundation, a “non-profit organization made up of artists, executives, and world leaders who aim to make a positive impact on people through the arts, mass media, and entertain…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Diversity and inclusion have completely replaced the Gospel as the raison d’être of many protestant denominations, and that ideology threatens to infect Catholicism as well.
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Anthony Fauci, Gender Inclusivity, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Middle Ages, News, Our Sunday Visitor, Shia LaBeouf, The Dispatch |
Introducing Fr. John Cush, new Editor-in-Chief of Homiletic & Pastoral Review – HPR welcomes Rev. John P. Cush, STD, as Editor-in-Chief, with Sister Mary Micaela Hoffman, RSM, S.S.L., as Associate Editor. The New Staff of Homiletic […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON – As Americans prepare to mark Labor Day on September 5, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, issued an annual reflection on th…
Read MoreReading 1 1 COR 3:1-9
Brothers and sisters,
I could not talk to you as spiritual people,
but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ.
I fed you milk, not solid food,
because you were unable to take it.
Indeed, you are still not abl…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Cardinals, Consistory, lead, News, Papal conclave, Pope Francis, Vatican |
German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, a once influential conservative prelate known to be at odds with several aspects of the Francis papacy, has asked that the right to vote in a conclave be limited to only those residing in Rome.
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops has posted its audited financial statements for 2020 and 2021.
At the end of 2020, the USCCB had $365.2M in assets and $110.2M in liabilities. At the end of 2021, assets rose to $408.9M, and liabilities fell to …
Read MoreEgypt, a nation of 106 million (map), is 90% Muslim and 9% Christian; Islam is the state religion. Relations between the government and the nation’s Christians have improved under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Catholic missionaries, digital culture, digital world, excommunication, lead, News, Vatican |
A high-ranking Vatican official says the digital world is also a mission territory for the Catholic Church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | artificial contraception, Donum Vitae, Jennifer Roback Morse, Marriage, Mindy Kaling, Naomi Schaefer Riley, News, reproduction, The Dispatch |
Moms and Dads: Are you looking for a great gift idea for that young single woman in your family? Comedian/actress Mindy Kaling has an idea! Why not, Mindy says, instead of just wrapping a pair […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Lubna Haddad Walford. Rondel: The Journey to Elizabeth O Bride of Nazareth in Galilee, The hills of Judah are in bloom today, And trodden chamomile perfumes the way Of wild iris and anemone. The …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | In the News, News |
A federal appellate court on Friday blocked a push by the Biden Administration to force doctors to perform abortions or…
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Nancy Pelosi spoke recently at a “reproductive health roundtable” at the University of California, San Francisco about efforts to restrict…
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When a bishop becomes more politician than pastor, some gentle remonstrance is in order. Consider some of the recent comments…
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Adult faith is perfected by association with good Christian men. But it is often planted, fed, and—when necessary—pruned, by women,…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | 2022, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Chaucer, Christian resourcefulness, Columns, cooperation in manufacturing, industria, industry, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "Our Industry is Charity", News, St. Jerome to Rusticus, The Catholic Thing |
One might think that the word “industry” is of modern coinage. Ours is the time of heavy industry, the Industrial…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Catholic Church, Catholicism, News, Pope Francis, relator general 2001 synod, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "No Bark - No Bite", The Catholic Thing, The Vatican Thing, The Vatican Thing by Robert Royal |
Sherlock Holmes’ “dog that did not bark” is something of overused cliché in public matters. But there are times when the absence of something that ought to be there – and loud – is the strongest evidence of what has really been going on. Witness the extraordinary consistory, which ended yesterday evening with a Mass celebrated by the pope in St. Peter’s for the Cardinals, who spent the past two days in private discussing the present and future of the Church.
It usually takes some indirect sources to sort out Vatican events like this, and people who follow them know how to put together the basic picture from various bits and pieces. This time, however, the fragments are few and add up to very little. It would be distressing to think that is the only result of what the Cardinals and the Holy Father just spent their time doing.
Still, that may very well be the case.
The official spokesmen haven’t spoken much. What we’ve mostly been told are the usual PR cliches: that the pope invited the participants to speak out frankly. But when you even have to say that, who ever really does it? Read more.
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