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Almost my first act as I stood on the verge of being received into the Catholic Church, was to buy a book on the worst popes throughout history; followed by a book which covered the whole range – on all the popes. Armed with that, there could be no disillusions; no blame, no buyers’ regret.
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Rome Newsroom, Sep 8, 2022 / 04:56 am (CNA).
In late August, the leadership of the Synod of Bishops announced the next stage in the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality.The continental phase…
“The Catholic Church showed real courage this week issuing advice to its schools to avoid sending kids for irreversible ‘gender affirmation’ treatments,” the national director of the Family First Party said in commenting on th…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | News, Order of Malta, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Last weekend, Pope Francis issued a new constitution for the Order of Malta, appointing a provisional Sovereign Council as part of an ongoing renewal process, ending years of dispute with the Order about its sovereignty. The Decree established the new Constitutional Charter, revoked the High Offices, and dissolved the Sovereign Council, while calling for an
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Cardinal Mario Grech, Europe, News, The Synodal Way, Vatican |
As the plenary assembly of the Synodal Path gets underway this week, with a debate on sexual morality, what next for the progressive movement? Despite misgivings in some quarters – not least from the Vatican – Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, the Maltese prelate Mario Grech, said he views open letters on the
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Read MoreA theologian who will soon be ordained bishop for a diocese in Ivory Coast says the Church in Africa has to better form and utilize the gifts of the laity.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Catholic missionaries, Comboni missionaries, lead, Mozambique, Murder, News, Religious Sisters |
An Italian nun has been murdered in northern Mozambique.
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CNA Newsroom, Sep 8, 2022 / 03:14 am (CNA).
What may well be the first shrine in Europe dedicated to persecuted Christians will be blessed today in central London, UK.The Shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecut…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
A look at the Church’s past makes clear that if the Holy Spirit guides the Church, He does it with a light touch.
The new Vatican Library Review “aspires to be an attractive place to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research” characterized by “scientific rigor and cross-cultural dialogue,” said Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonca, …
Read MoreFather Johannes Rivoire, OMI, 93, faces a sexual assault charge in Canada; France has yet to extradite him. The Inuit live in the Arctic regions of Canada and other nations.
Read MoreMsgr. Robert Murphy, chargé d’affaires of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, addressed a UN meeting on the International Day against Nuclear Tests.
Msgr. Murphy lamented the “deleterious effects o…
Read More“I am not forgetting the martyred Ukraine,” Pope Francis said on September 7, at his general audience. “Faced with all the war scenarios of our time, I ask everyone to be builders of peace and to pray that thoughts and projects of ha…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Sam Harris mocked religion by asking “Where is Heaven?”, but his question is a good one that Christians should be prepared to answer.
WASHINGTON – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Review Conference concluded on August 26 without consensus on a final document. Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committ…
Read MoreReading I Mi 5:1-4a
The LORD says:
You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,
too small to be among the clans of Judah,
From you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel;
Whose origin is from of old,
…
Posted by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Church in the Americas, Clericalism, Holy See, indigenous communities, lead, News, Synod, welcoming |
A specific desire of the faithful expressed in Canada’s national synod report was for the Church to take more “decisive” action to assist in the healing of the indigenous peoples wounded by the Church.
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