Burger King draws criticism for ‘blasphemous’ ad in Spain
A Burger King ad in Spain sparked controversy during Holy Week, and the company was forced to take it down due to the uproar it caused on social media.
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by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Advertising, blasphemy, Church in Europe, Easter, Holy Week, lead, News, Spain | 0 |
A Burger King ad in Spain sparked controversy during Holy Week, and the company was forced to take it down due to the uproar it caused on social media.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 17, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Holy Week, News, The Catholic University of America, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
For Lydia Korostelova, Russia’s brutal invasion of her native Ukraine has hit home in ways she could never have imagined.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Good Friday, Holy Week, lead, News, papal interview, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
In a new interview published Good Friday, Pope Francis spoke about an array of issues, including the war in Ukraine, saying he is pained by the conflict and asking God for the “gift of tears” in front of such staggering suffering.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Foot-washing, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Last Supper, lead, News, Pope Francis, Prisoners, Prisons, Vatican | 0 |
In yet another sign of things going back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis on Thursday led the Mass of the Last Supper in a prison in the outskirts of Rome where he washed the feet of 12 inmates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Church in the Middle East, Holy Week, Iraq, lead, News, Nineveh Plains, Palm Sunday, Qaraqosh | 0 |
This year’s Holy Week has a special significance for the Christians of Iraq, who see their situation in the country getting better.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2022 | Coliseum, Holy Week, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Via Crucis, Way of the Cross | 0 |
In yet another sign of Pope Francis’s spiritual closeness with Ukraine, on Good Friday a Ukrainian and a Russian family will carry the cross during one of the stations of the Via Crucis he will lead in Rome’s Coliseum.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, East Jerusalem, Holy Land, Holy Week, Jerusalem, News, Palm Sunday | 0 |
Thousands of Christian pilgrims took part in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Holy Week, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, joy, News, Palm Sunday, Prayer Life & Liturgy, suffering | 0 |
“Be assured of God’s love for you. Seek by his grace to heal the damage of sin. Seek communion with him and with those who make up his Church and those who are not yet within. His love for all of us is unconditional. His joy is infinite. His merc…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Holy Week, lead, Lent, News, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Russia, Sunday Angelus, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, War | 0 |
As the Church begins Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating Jesus’s crucifixion and death, Pope Francis Sunday appealed for an immediate ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, saying Easter is time to choose life over death.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Holy Week, lead, Lent, News, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
In his first outdoor Mass in over two years, Pope Francis on Palm Sunday refrained from directly mentioning the conflict in Ukraine but said Jesus’s violent death on the cross is relived in each act of war and in the killing of innocents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Church in Europe, Easter, Holy Week, lead, News, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
“It’s washing the feet of the most needy and all those who suffer in Ukraine now”, Krajewski told Crux, adding that “for Holy Week Pope Francis wants me to be in the place most marked by suffering”.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Faith is caught, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, News, Stations of the Cross, Sunday Scriptures, Sunday Vespers, Tenebrae service, Veneration of the Cross | 0 |
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and every year during Holy Week, that took a literal meaning. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, we practically lived at church!
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