Category: health

Fitness and Health for Growth in Holiness

by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | fasting, Featured, Fitness, health, Lifestyle, Masculinity, News, podcast, Wellness | 0 |

Today we discuss how your physical health and wellness go hand in hand with your development in virtue and growth in holiness. Dr. Kevin Vost joins us to address the huge rise in diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, liver disease, obesity, and other health-related illnesses in society today. We go into the false notion that you are either physically strong or mentally strong and that the integration of the two leads to a more grateful, loving, healthy, and holy life. Do we have a moral obligation to take care of ourselves and what is the correct balance?

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The Bookends of Catholic Health Care

by bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | Catholic health care, Featured, health, health care, medicine, News, St. Hildegard of Bingen | 0 |

Could anyone have predicted that less than a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, many of us would be seriously questioning the ethics, practices, and philosophies of one of the most powerful segments of our society, the medical establishment? But the COVID-19 pandemic upended many of our assumptions and presuppositions. “Losing trust in […]

Pope promotes Vatican nurse credited with saving his life

by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Associated Press, health, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

The Vatican announced the appointment of Massimiliano Strappetti in a one-line statement issued Thursday. Strappetti, the nursing coordinator of the Vatican’s health department, accompanied Francis on a difficult trip to Canada last month.

An immigrant’s journey to healing and health

by bcadmin | Jun 14, 2022 | Featured, healing, health, Immigrant’s journey, Local News, News, NFP, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Spanish-speaking | 0 |

Maria Martinez has served Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Paul for nearly five years, most recently as its director of faith formation.

Catholic Charities panel explores links between housing and health

by bcadmin | Mar 7, 2022 | Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, COVID-19 pandemic, health, housing, Local News, Michael Goar, News | 0 |

The COVID-19 pandemic “added a healthcare crisis on top of a housing crisis, and the only way to truly solve either is going to require bold investments and innovations in both,” said Michael Goar, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ CEO, ahead of the social services organizations’ annual social justice assembly March 1.

Bishops reach out to UK Health Secretary about life support case in Plymouth

by bcadmin | Jan 21, 2021 | health, Life Support, Matt Hancock, News, United Kingdom | 0 |

Bishops John Sherrington and Mark O’Toole have written a letter expressing their concern to British Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock about the removal of life support from a Catholic man in Plymouth, after a court ruling in January.

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Pope Francis – citing back pain – to skip Te Deum, Mass of New Year’s Day

by bcadmin | Dec 31, 2020 | health, News, Pope Francis, Top Story, Vatican | 0 |

Bruni’s statement explained that the Dean of the College of Cardinals, His Eminence Giovanni Battista Re, will preside at First Vespers and Te Deum, while the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, will say Mass of New Year’s Day, while Pope Francis still plans to lead the Jan 1 recitation of the Angelus from the Library of the Apostolic Palace.

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The greatest threat in our world today

by bcadmin | Aug 21, 2020 | Between the Sundays, COVID-19, Eternal life, Faith, fear, Featured, health, holiness, Living the Faith, News, Physical, physical health, sin, spiritual combat, Spiritual health, Virtue | 0 |

Are we as concerned about our spiritual health as our physical health? Most of us are doing all we can to limit the continued spread of the coronavirus. We are trying to be prudent and healthy, and we are striving to protect ourselves, our families, an…

German author says retired Pope Benedict is ‘extremely frail’

by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2020 | Frail, health, News, Pope Benedict, U.S. & World News | 0 |

An author with a long and close relationship to retired Pope Benedict XVI told a German newspaper that the 93-year-old retired pope is “extremely frail.”

Vatican: Pope Appoints Director of Office of Health and Hygiene

by bcadmin | Jul 28, 2020 | arcangeli, Feature2, health, News, Vatican | 0 |

Professor Andrea Arcangeli

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Vatican suspends outpatient services in wake of first coronavirus case

by bcadmin | Mar 6, 2020 | Coronavirus, Giuseppe Conte, health, News, Vatican, Vatican Directorate of Health and Hygiene | 0 |

In the wake of the first confirmed Vatican case of coronavirus, spokesman Matteo Bruni announced Friday that all outpatient services offered by the Vatican’s Directorate of health and Hygiene have been suspended in order to sanitize the facility.

As coronavirus spreads, churches outside China take preventive measures

by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, China, Church in Asia, health, Hong Kong, News, second, Taiwan | 0 |

The Chinese respiratory coronavirus has spread to almost every province in mainland China, which extended its Spring Festival holiday by three days to delay travel by up to 500 million people.