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The first round of Brazil’s presidential election was much closer than expected
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The first round of Brazil’s presidential election was much closer than expected
Read MoreTwo perspectives on the pope’s efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine — one by an historian of religion and the other by a political scientist
Read MoreReligious leaders mediated the resignation of Burkina Faso military leader after the landlocked West African nation saw its second coup in less than a year
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Bonaventure, Featured, Franciscans, News, Saints, St. Francis of Assisi |
“One day when Francis went out to meditate in the fields he was passing by the church of San Damiano which was threatened to collapse because of extreme age. Inspired by the Spirit, he went inside to pray. Kneeling before an image of the Crucified, he was filled with great fervor and consolation as he […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Leftists use the smear “fascist” so often that the word has become completely untethered from its original meaning. Much like the term “racist,” “fascist” is simply shorthand for anyone who opposes leftism
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
Originalism proposes that the values of the Constitution are unchanging, and developments in constitutional interpretation over the years should be based on courts’ application of those original values to the case law.
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News |
A judge in Milan on Monday acquitted five members of the Legion of Christ religious order and their lawyers of attempted extortion in a case in which they were accused of offering to pay the family of a sexual abuse victim to lie to prosecutors.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Mexico, News |
Indigenous symbols like a feather headdress, an axe and a shield have been found under layers of lime plaster at open-air chapels in a convent just south of Mexico City, experts announced Monday.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Marking 100 days since the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the…
Read MoreWASHINGTON – When the U.S. bishops gather in November for their Fall General Assembly (November 14-17), they will elect the next president and vice president for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). They will also elect new chairmen for six…
Read MoreReadings for the Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi, religious
Reading 1 GAL 1:13-24
Brothers and sisters:
You heard of my former way of life in Judaism,
how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure
and tried to destroy it,
an…
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Bishop Frank Dewane, Church in the US, Florida, Hurricane, Natural disasters, News |
With the storm now passed and its devastation abounding, churches across hard-hit Southwest Florida are providing a steadying force in the lives of those plunged into chaos and grief.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Bahrain, Bishop Paul Hinder, Catholic-Muslim relations, Church in the Middle East, dialogue with Islam, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis |
When Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff to visit the Muslim-majority Gulf nation of Bahrain next month, it will mark yet another step in his continual efforts to reinforce dialogue with Islam and will encourage the country’s small Christian minority.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Church in Africa, lead, News |
A leading Catholic figure says Cameroon’s civil war – now in its sixth year – has become “about money.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Catholic Schools, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, Madhya Pradesh, News |
Rightwing Hindu nationalists in India harassed a group of children as they were on their way to a Catholic school event on Monday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured, News, priesthood |
To chose anything as one’s favorite, whether it is a favorite book, piece of music, or movie star, is highly subjective. Nonetheless, it brings to mind categories that help to justify the choice. I have met and befriended many priests over the course of my long life. Why would one stand above all the others […]
Posted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | community, Featured, happiness, News, Philosophy, psychology, Sophia Excerpts |
At every juncture of human life and human operations, we encounter individuals and the community under moral, physical, and spiritual challenge. To soften this void, we engage every sort of “ism” as a substitute purpose for human life, whether it be environmentalism; communism and its penchant for economic redistribution; materialism as its own good; atheism […]
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace Our Saviour offers. Some amongst the paths to sanctity are more radical than others, and by ‘radical’ we mean ‘back to the very root’, as in, how did Christ Himself actually[…]
The post Saint Francis: The Poor and Radical Man appeared first on Catholic Insight.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | guardian angels, Living the Faith, News |
You never know when and where they’ll appear… perhaps even in Aisle 3 at Staples. With a heavy heart, I put down the telephone and sighed. I knew it was right that I, like the other sisters in my Carmelite community, set myself to the task now ahead of…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | In the News, News |
The United Nations and advocacy groups for survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging Pope Francis to authorize a full…
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