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In May, the State of Indiana enacted a law on school sports that “prohibits a male, based on the student’s biological sex at birth in accordance with the student’s genetics and reproductive biology, from participating on an athletic…
Read MoreAt the conclusion of their recent meeting, the bishops of SECAM (the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) issued a statement that touched on migration, insecurity, and synodality.
Read MoreFather Federico Lombardi, SJ, the director of the Holy See Press Office from 2006 to 2016, said that the “August consistory will result in a college of cardinals that increasingly reflects the universal presence of the Catholic Church and also th…
Read MoreIn 1931, the State of Michigan enacted a law banning abortion except when the mother’s life is in danger. A Michigan judge has issued a restraining order preventing county prosecutors from enforcing that law.
Read More“We are at a different place than we were a week ago in the church’s walk with Indigenous peoples, a better place,” Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina (Saskatchewan) said following the Pope’s apostolic journey to Canada. “…
Read MoreThe chairmen of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism have lent their support to the EQUAL Act (H.R.1693, S.79), which would eliminate the disparity in sentencing for different forms …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Cardinal Erdő, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, College of Cardinals, News, Pope Francis |
As speculation grows about the potential resignation of Pope Francis, whoever the next Pope is will say a great deal about the direction of a Church being pulled in different directions and threatened by schism with a progressive Synodal Path. One leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis is Hungary’s Cardinal Erdő, a conservative canon law
The post Erdő vs. Tagle: the battle to be the next Pope appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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Bishop Jesús González Hernández of Chilpancingo-Chilapa in the Mexican state of Guerrero said wearing religious dress could prevent the murder of Catholic pries…
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Asia, CCP, China, News, Pope Francis, Taiwan, World News |
On Tuesday, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, the island democracy which China views as a renegade province. Although the US does not officially recognise Taiwan as an independent state, in reality most countries – including the US – view Taiwan as a country in its own right. For the Chinese Communist Party
The post Pope Francis should speak up for Taiwan appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The diabolical underpinnings of rejecting nature is a connection we too often forget when confronting the transgender movement today.
On August 3, Pope Francis received two Ukrainian priests sent by Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, the Latin-rite Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol in Ukraine.
“Our pastor [i.e., bishop] has always remained close to the population of Odessa,” sa…
Read MoreThe August papal prayer intention is “we pray for small and medium sized businesses; in the midst of economic and social crisis, may they find ways to continue operating, and serving their communities.”
“As a consequence of the pa…
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I knew I was marrying well when my wife encouraged me to make a list of the churches and museums I wanted to visit on our honeymoon. We planned to hit the cities of Vienna and Prague, and it excited me to discover the many stunning baroque churches. Neither of us was prepared for the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
People don’t rely on logic and evidence for most of the decisions they make; they follow the suggestions of their media, their tribe, and their appetites. This has led to a decline in Christianity.
Reading 1 Jer 31:31-34
The days are coming, says the LORD,when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers:the day I took them by the hand to …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Catholic family, Fatherhood, Featured, News |
The Christian faith is currently in steep decline within Western society. This could, perhaps, coincide with the diminishing masculine roles among fathers within our culture. Fathers are often (unfairly) portrayed as oafs, who have little to say about their children about matters of faith and morals. Recent data suggests that fathers very much contribute to […]
Posted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Brazil, Canon Law, Church in the Americas, Dominicans, lead, News, Religious orders |
Forty-one-year-old Ângelo Nogueira, who allegedly robbed about $7.50 in coins from a Catholic rectory on May 5 and was run down by a Dominican priest afterwards, died July 27 from injuries sustained in the collision.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Caritas, Church in the Middle East, lead, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Pope Francis |
As Lebanon marks the second anniversary of the devastating Beirut port blast, many citizens are angry at the lack of progress and the worsening of a social and economic crisis that has left swaths of the population in acute difficulty.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Chile, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News |
“There’s a lot of fear in the hierarchy of not being able to control the situation, of accepting the need to loosen the leash,” said Eduardo Valenzuela, head of the sociology department at Chile’s Catholic University.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Business, courage, Evangelization, Faith, Featured, Fortitude, Gospel, In the Workplace, News, office, professional life, Surrender & Strength, witness, Work |
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash Do we ever stop to consider how many times a day our thinking and actions about our Catholic faith are influenced by a misguided concern for what others think of us? During the day, how many times have we missed …
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