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Posted by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican I, Vatican II |
The next Pope must have the spiritual integrity to tackle the metaphysical assaults of secularism, writes Gavin Ashenden
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Read MoreMichael Yelton introduces the reestablishment of devotion to Our Lady of Walsingham
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Books, conversion, Jewish, Magazine, News, Pope Paul VI |
Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance Emily Michelson Princeton University Press, £30, 352 pages In 1555 Pope Paul IV decreed that Rome’s Jews, “who through their own fault were condemned to eternal servitude”, should now live within the walls of a ghetto whose doors would be locked at night. These strictures
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Read MoreIncomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500-1700 Jeremy Robbins Reaktion Books, £25, 464 pages Spain’s Golden Age spanned the reigns of five monarchs which form-ed a “lineage of piety”: Charles I (Charles V when Holy Roman Emperor), Philip II, Philip III, Philip IV, ending with the death in 1700 of Charles II, the “Bewitched”,
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Read MoreThe Great Passion by James Runcie Bloomsbury, £16.99, 272 pages This sublime novel about the domestic and spiritual genesis behind Johann Sebastian Bach’s writing of his St Matthew Passion – first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1727 – is every bit as brilliantly dramatic as Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus. I couldn’t put it
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | C. S. Lewis, Conservative Party, Features, London Metropolitan Police, Magazine, News, Police |
A decline in religion in Britain is destroying the integrity of our public institutions
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Abortion, Dobbs v Jackson, Features, Magazine, News, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court |
The Supreme Court’s decision rests on how the US Constitution is interpreted
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Features, Magazine, moral values, News, tolerance, UK politics |
If politics and public life are not underpinned by Christian values, we are in deep trouble
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Vatican II and its implementation is still controversial among Catholics. Today on Crisis Point we’re going to consider an Eastern Orthodox perspective to the Council, particularly its ecclesiology.
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Featured, News, Scripture Speaks |
Readings for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Prince of Peace tells His disciples He did not come to establish peace on the earth. Why? Gospel (Read Lk 12:49-53) St. Luke tells us about a conversation Jesus had with His disciples that must have surprised them. First, He says, “I have come to set the earth […]
This article summarizes the results of synod discussions in the Dioceses of Trenton, Camden, Paterson, and Metuchen.
Read More“Whenever the politicians visit our churches, they should be treated like any other ordinary Christian coming to worship,” said Bishop Benjamin Phiri of Ndola, Zambia (map), who directed that politicians should never be given the “cha…
Read MoreIn June, Pope Francis lamented the “unspeakable violence” of the Owo church attack.
Read More“In at least 43 countries, women, but also men and children, are in mortal danger because they are being persecuted as alleged witches,” according to the report.
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European Court of Human Rights. / CherryX/wikmedia. CC BY-SA 3.0
CNA Newsroom, Aug 12, 2022 / 04:05 am (CNA).
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the case of an Iranian convert to Christianity, who is appealing his deportation from…
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is monitored by police in early August 2022. / Photo credit: Diocese of Matagalpa
Denver Newsroom, Aug 12, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
A bishop under house arrest, priests harassed by the police, the M…
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