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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | News, News Analysis, Opinion |
The Irish Catholic bishops, as part of the Irish Synodal Pathway, released their synthesis report of a wide-ranging listening phase on 16 August. Prepared after countrywide consultations across the 26 dioceses of Ireland, the document is presented as an amalgamation of the reports from each diocese, 29 additional submissions and the results of a National Synodal
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Father Ragheed Ganni / Chaldean Patriarchate
Erbil, Iraq, Aug 19, 2022 / 02:40 am (CNA).
It has been fifteen years since the martyrdom of Father Ragheed Ganni, the Chaldean priest of the Holy Spirit parish and the secretary of the Bishop of Mos…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Vatican |
Most of those other bits of alleged wisdom are at least partly bunk, so there’s no special reason to believe the one about Americans holds much water either.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – As threats to the Catholic Church in Nicaragua grow amidst the local social and political crisis, Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace…
Read MoreReading 1 EZ 37:1-14
The hand of the LORD came upon me,
and led me out in the Spirit of the LORD
and set me in the center of the plain,
which was now filled with bones.
He made me walk among the bones in every direction
so that I s…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Dark Night of the Soul, Featured, News, Prayer, Sophia Excerpts |
The phone rang in the parish office. Moments later, the call was transferred to Father Reed’s desk. He answered and said, “Hello, this is Father Reed.” His caller replied, “Good morning, Father. My name is Bob Johnson. You don’t know me, but my wife, Julie, made the retreat you gave three months ago. She loved […]
Bishop David Talley of Memphis, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, shared a statement made by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago on the New Mexico Muslim killings.
“The Catholic community stand…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Featured, gender, Incarnation, News |
The Incarnation is the central dogma of Christianity. God became man, spirit and body were integrated, the eternal and the temporal intersected, heaven and earth were reconciled, and the supernatural penetrated the natural. Christ Incarnate stands against all the divisions in the world where one factor is sundered from its complementary opposite. Thus, the body […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | News, Pope Francis, Synod on Synodality, Vatican |
Amid an increasingly leftwards turn by the Synodal Path in Germany, and calls for upending Catholic tradition in Ireland, is it time to ignore the Pope’s Synod on Synodality? The consultation process – which has been a rather hit-and-miss affair, with huge variance by diocese in terms of engagement – will culminate in a major
The post Should the Synod on Synodality be ignored? appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Fun Stuff, News, Riddles and Fun |
Funny 2 minute episode with a brain surgeon!
The post For the Lighter Side, a bit of good British Humor appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MoreCardinal Marc Ouellet has issued a firm denial of “inappropriate acts” in an August 19 public statement.
In a civil suit filed in Quebec, the cardinal is accused by a young woman of unwanted physical contacts. The allegations do not involv…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Eucharist, Featured, liturgical prayer, Liturgy, Mass, News, Prayer, prayer before communion, Prayer Life & Liturgy, rote prayer |
As Catholics, we are occasionally criticized for our ritual worship and rote prayers. While at times I do wish I was more poised when leading public impromptu prayers, I am grateful for the treasury of prayers at our fingertips. These prayers are …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | In the News, News |
Planned Parenthood announced on Wednesday that it will spend $50 million in the midterm elections. The abortuary chain conducted 354,871…
The post Planned Parenthood: All-in for Democrats appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Commentary, News |
Thirteen percent of all Americans now are ex-Catholics, and one out of ten Evangelicals in America today is a former…
The post Can ‘politics’ fill the pews? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Commentary, News |
We seem to be emerging from COVID, but great damage was done, not least the deaths that resulted. But there…
The post Learning from pandemic mistakes appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | In the News, News |
Canadian and international observers condemn media, politicians, and other opinion leaders for ignoring startling new statistics showing a 260 percent…
The post Oh, Canada: anti-Catholic hate crimes skyrocket appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | 2022, Carlin's "A New Ghetto for American Catholicism", Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Carlin, decline of Catholic faith, News, rise of anti-Catholicism, The Catholic Thing |
During the 19th century, Catholics found themselves settled and growing in numbers in the United States, a great Protestant country…
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Read MoreGospel Verse, Ps 25:4b, 5a:Teach me your paths, my God, guide me in your truth.Today is the Optional Memorial of St. John Eudes (1601-1680) was born in Ri and died in Caen, France. Despite the prevailing rigors of Jansenism, he received First Communio…
Read MorePope Francis has sent his greetings to the 43rd annual Friendship Among Peoples meeting in Rimini, Italy, and called upon Christians to pursue “a social friendship that excludes no one and a fraternity that is open to all.”
In his message,…
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