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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Migrants, News |
For decades, St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill has been known for providing hospitality in its parish hall to people arriving on buses in Washington for the annual March for Life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Kentucky, Natural disasters, News, Water |
Dr. Kassi Marshall is on a mission to bring safe drinking water to Perry County, where parts of the water infrastructure were destroyed in flooding that began July 26 in eastern Kentucky.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Catholic Charities, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic Health Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Climate change, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Medicaid, News, Taxes |
Landmark legislation to address climate change, reduce prescription drug costs and establish a minimum tax on large corporations once thought dead but was suddenly passed by the Senate is being hailed by Catholic advocates.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, family separation, Immigration, News |
Jorge Alvarenga’s voice seemed to crack just a little when the 31-year-old began remembering and talking about the last time he saw his mother in El Salvador. He was 14. She was in her 20s. It was the middle of the night and she got into a car.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Schools |
Each year at back-to-school-time, many parents are in sticker shock about school-supply costs.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | News, Nota in Brevis |
An intriguing and insightful take here from Dr. Douglas Farrow, a fifth-generation Canadian and professor of theology and ethics at McGill university. My talk at our recent Wojtyla Conference was on the ‘Sacramental Nature of the Human Person’, and we are indeed sacramental by our very nature, not only seeing things as ‘signs’, but turning[…]
The post Douglas Farrow’s Thoughts on Smudging and the Sacraments appeared first on Catholic Insight.
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Denver Newsroom, Aug 13, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Among the many Black men and women who have been declared saints in the Catholic Church, not one of them — yet — has been American. But that does not me…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Cultural Chaos, Health/Running, News, Politics/United States, Virus and Health |
CDC RETRACTS VAX POSITION The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its COVID-19 guidance Thursday, lifting its recommendations for mandatory quarantines for people exposed to the virus, screening for people with no symptoms, and testing for people after potential exposure. “It also brings the recommendations for unvaccinated people in line with people who […]
The post CDC Finally Catches Up with the Rest of Americans with Common Sense appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | News, Nota in Brevis |
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Wednesday, 11 August 2010 The significance of martyrdom Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today in the Liturgy we commemorate St Clare of Assisi, Foundress of the Poor Clares, a luminous figure of whom I shall speak in one of the forthcoming Catecheses. But this week as I[…]
The post Pope Benedict on Martyrdom appeared first on Catholic Insight.
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Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. / Quirinale.it/President.gov.ua via Wikimedia.
Rome Newsroom, Aug 13, 2022 / 04:45 am (CNA).
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he spoke with Pope Francis over the pho…
Former Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta of the Diocese of Oran, Argentina. / ACI Prensa
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 13, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
A former seminarian and victim of the bishop emeritus of Oran, Argentina, Gustavo Zanchetta — who was sentenced to …
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, In a Nutshell, News, Weekly Headlines |
The overarching spirit of “The Ball and the Cross” can be encapsulated in a comment that Chesterton made of his relationship with his brother: we were always arguing, but we never quarreled.
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Church closings, Church in UK and Ireland, England, Great Britain, lead, mosaic, News, religious art, United Kingdom |
Following a campaign by art historians, the UK government has added the ‘Oldham Mural’ masterpiece to its national heritage register.
Read MoreReading 1 Ez 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32
The word of the LORD came to me:Son of man, what is the meaning of this proverbthat you recite in the land of Israel:”Fathers have eaten green grapes,thus their children’s teeth are on edge”?As I liv…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega |
Nicaragua’s police have prohibited a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest sign of tensions between the government and the Roman Catholic Church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Caritas Internationalis, Church in the US, Congress, Economic crisis, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, Poverty, President Joe Biden, Puerto Rico |
Advocates are skeptical that a recently announced fall meeting between the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments on the Caribbean nation’s economic future will actually have any impact.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Churches, ecclesiology, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Messiah, News, Prophets, The Dispatch |
Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document containing “responses […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Apologetics, Biblical Exposition, Conferences, Mary, News |
I had a wonderful time with the Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows in Beaverton Oregon where I spoke for two days at their Marian Retreat. When talking on Mary I am usually squeezed into a 1 hour timeframe. This conference was delightful since I could tell the story of Mary’s life for two hours. […]
The post Steve’s Video Talks: “The Life of Mary – Real Girl & Woman of Mystery” Parts I and II appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
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