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by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | Books, Doctrine, Edward Gibbon, Edward Pusey, Features, Francis Newman, History, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Matthew Levering, News, Richard Hurrell Fourde, Scripture, St. John Henry Newman, Word On Fire | 0 |
Less than ten years after Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Pope Pius IX in 1854 issued the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, which declared, as Catholic dogma, that Mary, by God’s grace, was […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 25, 2022 | Canada, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Doctrine, indigenous communities, News, papal trip | 0 |
A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome, has not been announced.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 25, 2022 | Canada, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Doctrine, indigenous communities, News, papal trip | 0 |
A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome, has not been announced.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2022 | Associated Press, Bishop Georg Bätzing, Cardinal George Pell, Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Doctrine, Homosexuality, lead, News, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Cardinal George Pell has called for the Vatican’s doctrine office to intervene and reprimand two leading European Catholic churchmen who called for changes in Catholic teaching on sexuality and homosexuality.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2022 | Archbishop Charles Scicluna, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, clerical sexual abuse, Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Doctrine, Faith, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis has made significant changes to the Vatican’s doctrinal office, restructuring the department to include a new independent section dealing entirely with disciplinary matters, including clerical sexual abuse cases.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Doctrine, Faith, News, Plenary Council, Pope Francis, pope Francis address, Synod of Bishops, Vatican | 0 |
Discernment is a key attribute in protecting doctrinal integrity, in safeguarding the innocent and in guiding the church’s synodal path, Pope Francis told members of and advisers to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2021 | Catholic Church, christ the king, Doctrine, Featured, God, Gospel, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Liturgy & Sacraments, Lord of lords, News, Pope Pius XI, priesthood, Quas Primas, Regnum Christi, Saints, Scripture, St. John the Evangelist, transcendentals, Truth | 0 |
Image: Stained glass window at the Melkite Catholic Annunciation Cathedral in Roslindale depicting Christ the King with the regalia of a Byzantine emperor. (January 2009 photo by John Stephen Dwyer [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons) “Everyone who b…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | devotion, Doctrine, dogma, Essay, Features, Jesus Christ, Liturgy, News, Papacy, papal infallibility, Peter | 0 |
Following the publication of Traditionis Custodes, there have been numerous pieces written in defense of the usus antiquor, as well as others claiming that Traditionis Custodeswas necessary and much-needed. Much of the frenzy surrounding the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 20, 2021 | Apologetics Corner, Doctrine, Faith, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Liturgy & Sacraments, Mustard seed, News | 0 |
Life has a way of confronting us with many and varied challenges and trials, often when least expected. These storms take many forms: the loss of a loved one, a job, or a home… sometimes we find that our good health is not so good anymore. I would gues…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 13, 2021 | Apologetics Corner, Doctrine, Faith, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Liturgy & Sacraments, Mustard seed, News | 0 |
And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Apologetics Corner, Calvary, Corpus Christi, Doctrine, dogma, Eucharist, Faith, Featured, Holy Mass, Into the Deep, Liturgy & Sacraments, Love, News, Real Presence, sacrifice, service, Sursum corda, Transubstantiation, Works of Mercy | 0 |
The Altar of Sacrifice of the Old Covenant The passage from Exodus used for today’s first reading recounts the sealing of the Old Covenant mediated by Moses between God and Israel. The blood of the offering sprinkled upon the altar (representing God) a…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | All Soul's Day, attachments, Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, Doctrine, Faith, Featured, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, News, Purgatory, Redemption | 0 |
I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection as I watched the undertakers carry away his lifeless corpse in a body bag. But imagine this scene. You are an unborn child who has lived in …
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