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Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | allegory, Aslan, David Fagerberg, Ignatius Press, Jesus Christ, Leonard J. DeLorenzo, mythology, News, Peter J. Schakel, symbolism, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Transformation, The Dispatch |
Which is your favorite Narnia book? If you need help deciding, or if you already love all of C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and want to love them more, pick up The Chronicles of […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Battle of Lepanto, News, October, our lady of the rosary, rosary, Simple Holiness, Virgin Mary |
Most Catholics know that May is the month we honor the Virgin Mary, but many people do not realize that October is another month of the year in which we especially venerate our Lord’s mother.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Blonde, marilyn monroe, Netflix, News, The Dispatch |
MPAA Rating: NC-17 USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels Blonde is a long and often treacherous, Orphean journey through the sad life of Marilyn […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Church Fathers, Featured, Ignatian retreat, Lynette Graham, News, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Teresa of Avila, Why I am Catholic |
I had fallen away from the Catholic Church for most of my adult life.
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Events in Ukraine have reached dangerous levels, as the threat of a nuclear World War III seem to grow with each passing day. What’s going on? Who’s to blame? How should Catholics respond?
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic news, Climate change, Laudato Si, News, News Briefs, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican News |
Pope Francis meets Arouna Kandé, one of the subjects of the documentary “The Letter.” / Photo credit: Laudato Si’ Movement
Vatican City, Oct 4, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis is featured in a documentary film on climate change and the…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic news, News, News Briefs, U.S. bishops, U.S. bishops conference, US, USCCB, USCCB Fall General Assembly 2022 |
USCCB Fall Meeting 2021 / CNA
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 4, 2022 / 11:41 am (CNA).
The U.S. bishops released on Tuesday the names of the 10 candidates nominated to be the next president and vice president of the U.S. Conference of Cath…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic man, Etiquette, gentleman, Masculinity, News, Virtue |
And what about “polite”? We think of the word today as meaning, more or less, mannerly. A polite person is somebody with manners; somebody who has the kindness to say please and thank you. But in origin the word is closer to polish, with the sense that the polite person is a sort of gleaming silver teapot. From its Latin roots (politus, the past participle of polire, to smooth or polish) through its emergence in Middle English and well into the 1700s, the word meant a thing buffed up or cleansed or even organized, although other meanings also emerged. So it always is with important words.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | International, News |
As Kenya lifted a ban on the open cultivation of genetically modified crops, some Catholic bishops expressed reservations about the technology, citing ethical concerns about the farming and consumption of the foods.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic news, Corruption, News, News Briefs, Vatican, Vatican finance trial, Vatican finances, Vatican News |
A hearing in the Vatican finance trial on May 20, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Oct 4, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The hearings at the Vatican’s corruption trial resumed last week and shed light on new aspects of the “trial of the centur…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
The Gospel’s message of hope to the suffering and downtrodden is sorely needed in today’s world, which is “enslaved by selfishness and full of contradictions and divisions,” Pope Francis said.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Assisi, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Catholic news, Europe, feast days, News, News Briefs, St. Francis of Assisi, Vatican News |
Mass in Assisi with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi on the feast of St. Francis, Oct. 4, 2022 Andrea Cova/Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi / Andrea Cova/Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Rome Newsroom, Oct 4, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA).
On the feast of …
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, saints and martyrs, Vatican |
While their life journeys and the stages of their sainthood causes diverged, two men born in Italy are set to be canonized together Oct. 9: Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Blessed Artemide Zatti.
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