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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches, met in Greece with the primates of the Orthodox Church of Greece and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) and concelebrated the sacred liturgy…
Read MoreIn an interview with the Italian state-owned news channel TG2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, said that he believes that the 2018 agreement with China, renewed in 2020 for two years, will again be renewed.
Cardinal…
Read MoreTheology: A Matter of Mind and Heart By Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek September 5, 2022 St. Thomas Aquinas, the renowned thirteenth-century Dominican biblical commentator, theologian, and philosopher, considered the object of theological knowledge to be God and all things in relation to him. To appreciate the profundity of this perspective, we must set aside contemporary …
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In their message for Labor Day, the U.S. bishops have urged the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act as a means of building a just economy for women an…
The pope has promulgated a new constitution for the Order of Malta and replaced its leaders, hoping to stop infighting and bring about a reform that some members are contesting
Read MoreOn September 3, in an address to members of the AVSI Foundation for the Open Hospitals Project in Syria, Pope Francis reflected on the devastation wrought by the Syrian civil war.
Recalling the “14 million internally displaced persons and ref…
Read MoreOn September 4, Pope Francis beatified Pope John Paul I, who reigned for 33 days in 1978.
“With a smile, Pope John Paul managed to communicate the goodness of the Lord,” Pope Francis preached. “How beautiful is a Church with a hap…
Read MoreCiting a “need to initiate a profound spiritual, moral and institutional renewal of the entire Order,” Pope Francis issued a sweeping decree on September 3 in which he dissolved the Sovereign Council of the Sovereign Military Order of Mal…
Read More“And now we turn in prayer to the Virgin Mary, so that she might obtain the gift of peace throughout the world, especially for war-torn Ukraine,” Pope Francis said on September 4, at the conclusion of his brief Angelus address.
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Read MoreIn July, Our Sunday Visitor announced it would inaugurate a news service, OSV News, to fill the gap created by the closing of the US bishops’ agency, Catholic News Service (CNS).
Gretchen Crowe, who will lead OSV News, is the current editor …
Read MorePope Francis’ arrival at the recent consistory went virtually unnoticed
Read MoreIn an interview with CNN Portugal, Pope Francis defended a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on sexual abuse, raised questions about whether he will travel to Kazakhstan this month, and joked that either he or the next Pope would attend World Youth Day in Lisbon next year.
“This is one thing about abuse, it is a destructive thing, humanly diabolical,” he continued. “In families there is no celibacy and all that and, sometimes, it happens.”
CNN also reported that the Pope “said he was unable to travel at the moment because of issues with his knee,” a remark that raises questions about whether he will make his apostolic journey to Kazakhstan on September 13.
Asked whether he would attend the World Youth Day celebration, the Pontiff said: “I plan to go.” He added, joking: “The Pope is going to go — either Francis or John XXIV — but the Pope is going.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Whatever else Rings of Power may be, it is not Tolkien; nor is it—as the opening credits claim—based on The Lord of the Rings and its appendices in any meaningful way.
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
The paradox of Labor Day 2022 is that Americans seem less and less inclined to labor.
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Abortion, culture of life, Essay, family, Features, History, Labor Day, labor unions, Marriage, News, organized labor |
Labor Day 2022 is upon us, and in the past, labor priests like Fathers Peter Yorke, John Ryan, Charles Own Rice, Andy Boss, SJ, Phillip Carey, SJ, John Corridan, SJ, Raymond McGowan, George Higgins, Jack […]
Read MoreReading 1 1 COR 5:1-8
Brothers and sisters:
It is widely reported that there is immorality among you,
and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans–
a man living with his father’s wife.
And you are inflated with pride.
Should…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, joy, Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, News, The Dispatch |
Twenty-five years after her death in 1997, on September 5, 2022, Catholics honor St. Mother Teresa’s profound and lasting legacy in the Catholic Church. The best way to respect leaders – in this case, one […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Knights of Malta, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Founded in the 11th century during the Crusades, the “Sovereign Military Order of Malta” long has been a sort of hybrid entity within the Catholic Church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | AVSI, Cardinal Mario Zenari, Hospitals, lead, Medical care, News, Pope Francis, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Vatican |
With Syria’s civil war well into its 12th year, the Vatican’s envoy to the country, Italian Cardinal Mario Zenari, has said high poverty rates and the lack of reconstruction is turning the population into “beggars” who are beginning to lose hope.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 5, 2022 | Calcutta, Church in Asia, Church in India, India, lead, Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, News |
The Missionaries of Charity are marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa by searching out “the poorest of the poor on the streets, in the stations…wherever they are alone and abandoned.”
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