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“When we look today at what the enemy leaves behind – burned and destroyed cities and villages, burnt fields of wheat, plundered forests, mined chernozems, polluted ponds, rivers, and water sources from which you can no longer drink – we see tha…
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“The Mother of the Great Steppe" by Dosbol Kasymov. / Photo courtesy of Archbishop Tomasz Peta
CNA Newsroom, Sep 15, 2022 / 00:26 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Thursday blessed an icon depicting Mary and the Child Jesus as native Kazakhs, entr…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis |
On Pope Francis’s last day in Kazakhstan, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a longtime public critic of the pontiff, said he sees it as both his duty and an act of fraternal love to speak out when he believes the faithful are in “danger” of confusion.
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The Archdiocese of Washington has entered the world of cryptocurrency.
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On his final day in Kazakhstan, Pope Francis met with bishops, priests, and religious in the country, offering words of encouragement and urging greater space be made for the participation of laity in the life of the church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | Archdiocese of Bombay, Cardinal Charles Bo, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Church in Asia, Church in India, FABC, federation of asian bishops' conferences, India, lead, News |
Cardinal Charles Bo, the head of the federation of the bishops’ conferences of Asia, has called Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay a “compassionate shepherd” mark the Indian prelate’s silver jubilee.
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Posted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | apathy, Catholic Church, courage, Evangelization, example, Featured, Living the Faith, lukewarm, lukewarmness, News, Prayer, pride, Surrender & Strength, witness |
Do you ever feel numb or helpless because of all the problems the world faces each day? One only has to watch the news or follow the events of the day online to feel completely overwhelmed. Some of the challenges facing the world include ever-increasin…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | Featured, heroism, Maximilian Kolbe, News, Spiritual Warfare, War |
On October 10, 1982, St. John Paul II canonized Father Maximilian Kolbe, hero of Auschwitz, who he called a “martyr of charity.” Father Kolbe had been arrested by the Nazis and sent to that infamous concentration camp for housing Polish refugees, most of them Jews. In July of 1941, he voluntarily stepped forward to take […]
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | Commentary, News |
Few scholars have studied the extent, causes, and effects of the mid-to-late-twentieth-century collapse of Western Catholicism more carefully than French…
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Deep reform in the process of selecting bishops in the Church should begin by bringing women, not to mention laymen,…
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Pope Francis said on Tuesday he was willing to go to China at any time but had “no news” to…
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Pope Francis said yesterday that God does not guide religions to war, an implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill,…
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Read MoreYou are confronted with yourself. Each year The pouches fill, the skin is uglier. You give it all unflinchingly. You…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022, Brad Miner, Brad Miner's "Hidden Art", Brooklyn Museum, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ", Caravaggio's rediscovered "Ecce Homo", Columns, Daniel Weiss The MET’s president, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by James Tissot, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum (The MET), Museo del Prado, News, Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing |
There are several reasons why a work of art owned by a museum is not on display: there is no…
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Read MoreEntrance Antiphon, Cf. Lk 2:34-35: Simeon said to Mary: Behold, this child is destined for the ruin and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign of contradiction; and your own soul a sword will pierce. Gospel Verse: Blessed are you, O Blessed Virgin …
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