Pope Francis Tells Kazakhstan’s Small Catholic Community ‘Being Little’ is a Blessing
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Posted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Just as Pope Francis was warning Kazakhstan’s bishops about fuelling nostalgia for the past during his visit to the country, one traditionalist cleric suggested Francis’ participation in an interfaith conference could imply papal endorsement of a “supermarket of religions”. As first reported by the Associated Press, Bishop Athenasius Schneider – auxiliary bishop of Astana –
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Read MoreAmong the some 7,000 people who attended the papal Mass in Kazakhstan this many testified to the reality of belonging to a tiny Catholic minority in the countries of the region
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Pope Francis speaking at the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 15, 2022. / Vatican media
Rome Newsroom, Sep 15, 2022 / 04:41 am (CNA).
In his final remarks in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Pop…
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On the Feast of the Triumph of the Holy Cross, Hungary just passed a law that requires a woman seeking an abortion to listen to her child’s heartbeat first. The law will go into effect today, the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. Quite fitting. Even if abortion is still permitted – a tragedy, and[…]
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Pope Francis speaking at the interreligious congress in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sept 15. 2022 / Vatican Media / YouTube (screenshot)
Rome Newsroom, Sep 15, 2022 / 04:07 am (CNA).
The interreligious congress in which Pope Francis participated th…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, inter-faith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, peace, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine Crisis |
Pope Francis highlighted a passage of the final declaration of a Kazakhstan inter-faith congress which urges world leaders “to put an end to conflicts and bloodshed everywhere, and to abandon aggressive and destructive rhetoric.”
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What we want are all the habits and customs that teach boys and girls from the beginning that they are meant for one another and that bring them together in merriment. Which means rules.
“Our new king has, as Prince of Wales, demonstrated a deep and abiding compassion for Christians targeted for their beliefs, an approach which was absolutely aligned to his commitment to religious freedom,” said John Pontifex of Aid to the …
Read More“At that time, I remember, we women said, ‘100,000 women die from clandestine abortions,’” said Marta Lamas, one of the founders of the Group for Information on Elective Reproduction. “It turns out that 100,000 people died…
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When Catholics in a typical parish are served lounge music instead of sacred music, their souls suffer a kind of dry rot. They experience not the “fear and trembling” of Calvary but only the wispy breezes of the musical theater.
Readings for the Memorial of Our Lady of SorrowsReading 1 1 Cor 15:1-11
I am reminding you, brothers and sisters,of the Gospel I preached to you,which you indeed received and in which you also stand.Through it you are also being saved,if you h…
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Pope Francis speaking in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cathedral on Sept. 15, 2022 / Vatican media
Rome Newsroom, Sep 15, 2022 / 02:13 am (CNA).
Speaking to priests, religious sisters, and missionaries living in Kazakhstan, where Catholics make …
Without mentioning Russia by name, Pope Francis has issued appeals for peace throughout his apostolic journey to Kazakhstan.
“How many deaths will it still take before conflict yields to dialogue for the good of people, nations and all human…
Read MorePatriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message to the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan. Kirill was originally scheduled to attend the conference in person, but then changed h…
Read MoreResponding to reports of insufficient education in some Hasidic Jewish schools, New York State is poised to require nonpublic schools to offer a “substantially equivalent” education to that of public schools.Public school districts will be …
Read MoreAccording to the report, a Muslim police officer forced Boota Masih to work on his cattle farm in order to repay his son’s debts. Masih was subsequently killed.
Read MoreAmid renewed fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church issued an “appeal to the international community, and especially to our friendly countries, to take effective steps to stop Azerbaijan’s repeat…
Read MoreOn September 14, Mao Ning, the deputy director of China’s Foreign Ministry Information Department, was asked, “Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church said yesterday when he arrived in Kazakhstan that he was willing to go to China at any …
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One joy of the Catholic life is receiving good news from the darkest places. Few places have seemed darker in the past year than Ukraine, currently under brutal assault from Russia. The Ukrainian people have shown remarkable courage in the face of vicious aggression, but the military front lines are not the only location of […]
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