Louisiana boat procession to highlight saints known for love of Eucharist
The annual Fête-Dieu du Têche in the Diocese of Lafayette takes place on the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15.
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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Eucharist, Lafayette, Louisiana, News |
The annual Fête-Dieu du Têche in the Diocese of Lafayette takes place on the feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15.
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For more than 50 years, Marie Dennis has been asking herself as a white middle-class woman who once worked for the U.S. Navy how she could respond as a Catholic to the cries for justice of people around the world.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, Bishop Edward C. Malesic, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Cleveland, new bishops, News |
The ordination of Auxiliary Bishop Michael G. Woost was a historic event in the Diocese of Cleveland.
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Thousands from the world over are descending on this picturesque Alpine village to see the famed Passionsspiele, or Passion Play, held here every decade for nearly 400 years.
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Boston, Mass., Aug 14, 2022 / 06:47 am (CNA).
On August 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. Today, as we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, let’s…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Middle East - Africa, News |
A fire broke out in the Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt on Sunday, Aug. 14 2022. / ACI MENA
CNA Newsroom, Aug 14, 2022 / 05:50 am (CNA).
At least 40 people — most of them children — have died in a fire in a Coptic Orthodox churc…
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CNA Newsroom, Aug 14, 2022 / 05:50 am (CNA).
At least 40 people have died in a Coptic church fire in Egypt, according to media reports citing local health officials. Fourteen people were injured, news media reported.The…
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims during the Angelus Aug. 14, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Aug 14, 2022 / 05:23 am (CNA).
The fire of faith should spur us to conversion, not lull us into complacency, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Articles, Featured Highlights, News |
I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed (Lk. 12: 49-50). ⧾ By means of a familiar substance and image, fire, Our Lord speaks to us about His[…]
The post Twentieth Sunday: Casting Fire Upon the Earth! appeared first on Catholic Insight.
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In those days, the princes said to the king:”Jeremiah ought to be put to death;he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city,and all the people, by speaking such things to them;he is not intere…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | lead, Media, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Papal health, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II |
Executives from TV networks are finalizing contracts for locations and personnel for the “big show,” and journalists are dusting off papal obituaries and handicapping lists of papal candidates.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | News, Pilgrimage, Reviews, Critiques, Surveys |
After taking my group of 60 to view the Oberammergau Passion Play in the Bavaria region of Germany, I gave an 11-minute recorded critique at dinner. I was very disappointed after seeing the Passion Play. Many go expecting a Catholic performance, but it is far from it. It has been Protestantized and now secularized with […]
The post My 11-Minute Video Critique of the Oberammergau Passion Play with a “Socialist Jesus” appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Apologetics, Moral/Sexual Issues, News, ProLife & Family Issues |
EXCELLENT article. Read the whole story here.
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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Jesus Christ, News, Prophets, Sunday Reflections |
The prophets of the Old and New Testaments show us that sometimes love demand that we speak truth that people don’t want to hear. Jeremiah was thrown into a cistern; Jesus was run out of Nazareth. This shows us that God’s messengers shouldn’t expect h…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | 2022, Columns, Elizabeth A. Mitchell, Martyred 'in Odium Fidei', News, The Catholic Thing |
August is a month of martyrs. St. Lawrence, St. Bartholomew, St. John the Baptist, St. Sixtus II and companions, Sts….
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Bible, Daily Verse, Hebrews, News |
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us&#…
Read MoreGospel Verse Year C, John 10:27:My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.Gospel Excerpt, Year C, Luke 12:49-53:Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! The…
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