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During Christ’s time on earth, the New Testament cites how He spent much of His life sharing meals with locals, even tax collectors and sinners, and most memorably, with His closest followers, His disciples. Perhaps the most memorable image of Christ sharing bread and wine was at the Last Supper. With that meal and with […]
by bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, cooking, Graduation, News, World hunger | 0 |
Recently back home after joining his World Central Kitchen’s outreach in war-torn Ukraine, Chef José Andrés addressed the class of 2022 at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda June 9.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, cooking, Iraqi refugees, Jordan, News | 0 |
St. Joseph’s Church has married Italian cuisine with Iraqi skill to provide unique training opportunities to young refugees who escaped religious persecution and sectarian violence in their homeland.
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Holy Week—feast or fast? Both. For Catholics, fasting means maintaining Lenten obligation to enjoy one normal meal a day. Fasting becomes more rigorous after the special Maundy Thursday dinner—the Last Supper—which for some replicates Christ’s last meal. That would be a Seder meal with wine, unleavened bread, and a lamb shank, plus other offerings. This […]
by bcadmin | Feb 20, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, cooking, Diocese of Allentown, fundraising, News, YouTube | 0 |
When priests hang up their clerical robes, grab their aprons and head for their kitchens, what’s cooking?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 2, 2022 | cooking, Food, Latin Mass, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, US bishops | 0 |
My New Year’s wish for 2022 would be that more Catholics be open to a “Chicken Parm” mode of thinking about ecclesiastical life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 14, 2021 | Book Review, cooking, Food, Lateran Pacts, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Pius IX, Popes, St. Peter | 0 |
ROME – Catholic history is a like a river fed by many currents, but one of the strongest and most perennial, undeniably and inextricably, is food. At the very heart of the sacramental system is a shared meal, and when we pray as Christ himself taught us, we ask for […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Amatrice, amatriciana, Catholic twitter, cooking, Dialogue, Food, lead, News, News Analysis, Polarization, Social media | 0 |
More than two decades ago, Thomas Friedman first floated the Golden Arches theory of world peace, which posits that no two countries with McDonalds have ever fought a war against each other.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 8, 2021 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic News Service, catholic priests, Church in the US, cooking, Facebook, Facebook Live, Food, Louisiana, News | 0 |
While brainstorming ways to help her fellow parishioners at Divine Mercy Church in Kenner, Louisiana, prepare for Easter, Becky Delatte thought of a simple recipe she had made with her mother ever since she could remember.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 13, 2021 | Bartolomeo Sacchi, Castel Sant'Angelo, cooking, Food, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Paul II, Pope Sixtus IV, Vatican Library, Vatican museums | 0 |
Bartolomeo Sacchi, better known by his Latin nom de plume Platina, was selected as the first Prefect of the Vatican Library by Pope Sixtus in 1478. Two things make Sacchi’s story especially, well, appetizing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 31, 2021 | Church History, cooking, Genoa, Italy, lead, Naples, News, News Analysis, pasta alla genovese, Swiss Guards | 0 |
I’ve said before that a compelling history of the Catholic Church could be written in the form of an Italian cookbook, and on this holiday Monday I’ll prove the point through a dish chosen essentially at random.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 16, 2021 | cooking, Food, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Hunger, Italy, kitchen, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XII | 0 |
Rome is a place where food and faith belong together, where the kitchen and the altar express the same basic sacramental instinct.
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