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A framed photo of Larry Tutt stands in front of a basket holding red whistles reading "RIP Larry Tutt 2022" following a memorial Mass at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2022. / Katie Yoder / CNA
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Worker Movement, News, Obituary, Pax Christi |
Deacon Tom Cornell, a co-founder of Pax Christi USA as well as the Catholic Peace Fellowship and a decadeslong associate of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, died Aug. 1. He was 88.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Australia, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, euthanasia, News |
The Australian Parliament is considering legislation that would allow the country’s two territories to pass their own laws, paving the way for legalizing euthanasia.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Congo, Congo bishops, News, United Nations |
The secretary-general of the Congolese bishops’ conference offered his church’s help in rebuilding dialogue after dozens died in protests about the ineffectiveness of U.N. peacekeepers.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, murdered priests, News, U.S. Congress |
U.S. members of Congress have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to “work closely with the Mexican government to sure there is full accountability for the murders” of two Jesuits in their parish and a tour guide they were protecting.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Middle East - Africa, News |
Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr of Wa, who was elected present of SECAM July 30, 2022. / Courtesy of SECAM
Rome Newsroom, Aug 6, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr of Wa, who is to be made a cardinal later this month, has been ele…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | A Hiker's Guide to Purgatory, Books, Features, God, Michael Norton, News, Novel, Purgatory, Salvation |
Fictional portrayals of purgatory have a grand lineage. Dante climbed the seven-tiered mountain centuries ago, and Tolkien placed his character Niggle (in the short story “Leaf by Niggle”) in a sort of otherworldly hospital-cum-labor camp. […]
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Denver Newsroom, Aug 6, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Bishop Juan Carlos Elizalde of Vitoria, Spain, warned that some young people are “at risk” for self-centeredness because of the way they’re being raised and educated.&…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Featured, News, Scripture Speaks |
Readings for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, Jesus gives His followers instructions about vigilance in their obedience to Him. The message: expect the unexpected. Gospel (Read Lk 12:32-48) Our reading today follows Jesus’ earlier exhortation to His disciples about anxiety: “Don’t be anxious about your life, what you shall eat … or what you shall put […]
Read MoreAccording to Genesis 1:29-30, God created the garden of Eden depicting the growth of plants and animals and forming humans as farmers to care for the soil. Then in John 15:1, Jesus tells people that His Father is a farmer, underscoring for life the importance and gravity of farming. After all, without God’s food raised […]
Read MoreReading I Dn 7:9-10, 13-14
As I watched:
Thrones were set up
and the Ancient One took his throne.
His clothing was bright as snow,
and the hair on his head as white as wool;
his throne was flames of fire,…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | lead, martyrdom, News, Pope Francis, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican |
Pope Francis Friday recognized the martyrdom of Father Petro Paolo Oros, a priest from the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo, Ukraine, who was shot to death by Soviet communists in Siltse in August 1953.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, News, Nicaragua |
As part of an ongoing effort to silence voices of dissent in the country, Nicaragua’s government has announced that it’s investigating a Catholic bishop for what officials call “crimes against spirituality.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Latin Mass, News, News Analysis, Orthodoxy, Rod Dreher, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican II |
What holds Catholicism together over time isn’t so much ideological consistency but family ties. Catholics regard the church as their spiritual home, and whatever their frustrations might be at any given moment, most can’t conceive of leaving.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | 2022, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Columns, George J. Marlin's "Pius XII: The Pope Who Defied Hitler", Golda Meir, Jewish historian Pinchas Lapide, Leonard Bernstein, News, Pacelli wrote Pius XI's Mit brennender Sorge, Pius XII and the Jews, Pius XII saved live, Pope Pius XII, Rome’s chief rabbi Israel Zolli, The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Vatican Secret Archives by Michael Hesemann, The Pope at War The Secret History of Pius XII Mussolini and Hitler by David I. Kertzer |
At the end of the Second World War, Pope Pius XII was universally acclaimed for his courageous leadership. The Jewish…
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