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CNA Newsroom, Sep 20, 2022 / 06:27 am (CNA).
In open defiance of the Vatican, Catholic bishops in Belgium on Tuesday announced the introduction of blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples in their dioceses.&…
Two far-right parties who have appealed to religious values are poised to win big in Italy’s snap general elections next Sunday, while Church leaders have tried to stay neutral
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March for Life in Berlin, Sept. 17, 2022 / EWTN.TV YouTube Channel (Screenshot)
CNA Newsroom, Sep 20, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Around 4,000 participants took part in the March for Life in the German capital on Saturday in support of the right to …
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Asia, Cardinal Parolin, Cardinal Zen, CCP, News, Pope Francis, Sino-Vatican Deal, Vatican |
Pope Francis has a golden opportunity to make amends for his treatment of Cardinal Joseph Zen, set to go on trial in Hong Kong. The trial of Cardinal Zen has now been delayed after one judge tested positive for COVID. It is now set for September 21 instead. Zen – a long-standing critic of the
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Read MoreExclusive interview with Archbishop Pierre d’Ornellas of Rennes, head of the bioethics group of the French Bishops’ Conference, on the debate to legalize euthanasia in France
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Papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, pictured in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 29, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Sep 20, 2022 / 04:58 am (CNA).
A Vatican envoy in Ukraine prayed in silence at the recently discovered mass grave in…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In the Church, specialists should not rule, but instead it is the bishops who should act as “experts of the whole.” But, in practice, they often abandon this duty.
For at least the third time in the past year, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra—who coordinates the internal affairs of the Roman Curia, and is typically not involved in foreign relations—has traveled to a foreign country to inaugurate a nunciature.
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Read MoreAt a church dedication on September 18, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, paid tribute to the “willpower, strength of spirit, the ability to overcome difficulties” of workers in northern Russia.
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Read More“Queen Elizabeth was a courageous peacemaker and a reconciler of difference,” Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, said before the Queen’s funeral. “I will be praying at the funeral in Westminster Abbey…
Read MoreSome US bishops asked the Vatican to add the Feast of the Holy Spouses, Mary and Joseph, to the General Roman Calendar on January 23. Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, informed the US Conference of Catholic Bishops tha…
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In an America increasingly hostile to both evangelicals and Catholics, we need to not only reinforce the ecumenical qualities of the pro-life movement, but we need to expand out into other areas.
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, priest and martyr, and Saint Paul Chong Hasang, catechist and martyr, and their companions, martyrsReading 1 PRV 21:1-6, 10-13
Like a stream is the king’s heart in the hand of the LORD;
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Posted by bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Featured, News, Our Lady of Sorrows |
Years ago, I remember reading a book written by an evangelical, fundamentalist Christian. In it, the woman described being an exhausted, sleep deprived mother to many and being up late one night doing laundry. She said that she began to break down and cry from sheer exhaustion. Then, she said that she stopped and realized […]
“After the bombardment of cities and civilians, everyone understands they could die any day. Safety does not exist in any part of Ukraine,” said Father Roman Ostrovskyy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic seminary in Kyiv. “And yet not on…
Read MoreAt a press conference on September 19, the prefect and secretary of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints were joined by a Roman sociology professor in discussing an upcoming four-day conference, “Holiness Today.”
The conference, which …
Read MoreOrdained to the priesthood in 1954 and to the episcopate in 1979, Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza led the Diocese (later Archdiocese) of Galveston-Houston from 1984 to 2006 and was president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1998 to 2001.
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Read MoreThe southwestern Indian state of Karnataka (map) is 84% Hindu, 13% Muslim, and 2% Christian.
The legislation “has draconian clauses,” including long prison sentences for those who “forcibly” convert others, “to terrori…
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