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If current trends hold, Brazilian Protestants will outnumber Catholics beginning in 2030.
“The evangelical surge has indeed supplanted Catholicism, especially among the poorest, especially in the outskirts of the big cities, especially in the …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Moral/Sexual Issues, News, Politics/United States, ProLife & Family Issues |
This magazine arrives in our mailbox four times a year; not because we subscribe but because we live in this community. We never sent our kids to public schools, choosing rather to educate them at home. When I grabbed the mail and walked back to the house I had not even reached the front door […]
The post What is Wrong with this Picture? What is Missing? Is this the “New Normal”? appeared first on Defenders of the Catholic Faith.
Read More[For background, see “The Zanchetta affair (Part 1): the bishop’s rise,” and “The Zanchetta affair (Part 2): resignation, Archbishop Stanovnik, and a Vatican appointment.”]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Commentary, News |
We do good, not because our beneficiaries are Catholic, but because we are. That having been said, our works of…
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Read MoreEarth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavès throng And louchèd low grass, heaven that dost appeal To, with no tongue…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | In the News, News |
Since the start of the year, there have been 350 homicides in Philadelphia, up 2 percent from last year, with…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | In the News, News |
The Pontifical Academy for Life on Monday clarified remarks of the Academy’s president, Abp. Vincenzo Paglia, made on Italian television…
The post ‘Taken out of context’: Pontifical Academy defends Archbishop Paglia’s abortion law remark appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Commentary, News |
In recent documents and statements, the Academy proposes a revolution of Catholic sexual morality, suggesting that, given the right attitudes…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Daily Quote, G.K. Chesterton, News, Ten Commandments |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | 2022, Christopher Shannon's American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World., Columns, John Courtney Murray S.J., John F. Kennedy, Land O'Lakes statement, News, Orestes Brownson, The Catholic Thing, The Destruction of American Catholic Identity by Casey Chalk |
American Catholics made a trade. You may not be aware of it or have personally participated in it. But it’s…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | advice for cardinals' consistory, C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters, Catholic Church, Catholicism, News, Pope Francis, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "The Uses of Presumption?", The Catholic Thing, The Vatican Thing, The Vatican Thing by Robert Royal |
It would be presumptuous, of course, of anyone to offer advice to the College of Cardinals gathered for private discussions with Pope Francis during the two days of the “extraordinary consistory” currently underway. Doubly presumptuous, because who would listen – or read – some random, unofficial figure anyway?
So far, details from the first day of the consistory have been quite sparse and general. Which is surprising given the challenges that the Church faces both internally and from an increasingly hostile world.
And doubly surprising, too, because a fair number of the Cardinals are serious and accomplished men who have thought – and thought deeply – about the current situation of the Church. Some are even more than ready to act, boldly.
Still, if someone presumptuous, against all proper respect and good judgment, wanted to offer the College as a group some humble words of advice, the first move might be to counsel them to take and read C. S. Lewis’s great little book The Screwtape Letters. Read more.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Bible, Daily Verse, News, Romans |
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” (Romans 12:12) Print this entry
The post Your Daily Bible Verses — Romans 12:12 appeared first on Integrated Catholic Life™.
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Gospel Verse, Lk, 7:1:A great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people.Communion Antiphon, Mt 5:9-10:Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righte…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Andrea Bocelli, Hollywood, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
After a heavy-last week of August, Pope Francis will have a chance to unwind Hollywood style.
Read MoreI am loath to criticize the bishops, or even a bishop, for several reasons. First, it’s too easy, and it is too likely to make the writer popular in a bad way. Second, bishops are […]
Read MorePope Francis is not taking a political stand when he speaks out against the war in Ukraine, the Vatican insisted in a public statement released August 30.
The statement stresses that the Pope’s words “should be interpreted as a voice raise…
The secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops has rebuked other prelates for offering public criticism of the German bishops’ Synodal Path.
Cardinal Mario Grech told a German publication that he was dismayed by the “public denunciation&rdq…
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who has claimed that Pope Francis reinstated his privileges as a member of the College of Cardinals, remains ineligible to vote in a papal election, according to a roster of cardinal-electors supplied by the Vatican press office…
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