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by bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | areopagus, human dignity, In the Spotlight, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, Scripture, St. Paul | 0 |
The Most Poetic Line in Any Language There is a verse in Scripture that speaks about who we are as human beings. It may not be overstating the point to suggest that it is the single best explanation of the meaning of human existence. The verse is from …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Catholic Church, human dignity, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News, pro-life, respect life, Respect Life Month, Saint Teresa of Calcutta | 0 |
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) In our first reading today on this Respect Life Sunday, the prophet Habakkuk asks how long must injustice p…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Death penalty, Death penalty encourages revenge, Featured, From the Pope, human dignity, News, pope's worldwide prayer network, Revenge | 0 |
The death penalty is an affront to human dignity that offers no solace to victims and denies the possibility for conversion of those who commit serious crimes, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 5, 2022 | Dignity of Life, Featured, human dignity, News, pro-life | 0 |
Christ poses the question, “What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” (Matthew 16:26) The answer is not difficult to ascertain. It profits him nothing. The question is stated in such a way as to contrast quantity with quality and indicate that no amount of possessions a […]
by bcadmin | Jan 23, 2022 | Abortion, Culture of Death, human dignity, innocent human life, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Living the Faith, News, pro-life, prolife, Roe v. Wade | 0 |
Image: “Madonna and Child” (detail) by Sassoferrato | Restored Traditions An oppressive darkness settled upon the United States of America. Forty-nine years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States “legalized” a…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2021, Alasdair MacIntyre, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dignity and Distance, human dignity, human flourishing, Joseph R. Wood, Mary Ann Glendon, News, rights talk, The Catholic Thing, The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame, “I Have Called You by Name: Human Dignity in a Secular World” | 0 |
Joseph R. Wood: Whether the view of human dignity is philosophical or poetic, we must see others as God sees us: at a distance, and up close.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 17, 2021 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Catholic Church, human dignity, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News, pro-life, respect life, Respect Life Month, Saint Teresa of Calcutta | 0 |
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) We live in an age that is filled with signs and wonders, many of which are ominous and terrifying—our polit…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2021 | Divine Providence, Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Featured, God, God's Love, Heaven, human dignity, Into the Deep, life, News, Salvation | 0 |
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” (Matthew 16:24-25) But Jesus s…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2021 | Abide with Me, Call to Holiness, Creation, death, Divine Providence, Featured, God, God's Love, Heaven, human dignity, Into the Deep, life, News, Salvation, September 11th, time | 0 |
“Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent” (Luke 24:29). Just yesterday we remembered the victims of September 11, 2001 in our prayers as we marked the twentieth anniversary of that tragic day. That is a day that I pray we ne…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 6, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Catholic social teaching, daily life, dignity of work, Featured, holiness, human dignity, Labor Day, Laborem Exercens, Living the Faith, News, Regular Feature, sanctification, Work, workplace | 0 |
Work is a gift. Perhaps it doesn’t seem that way when we’re growing tired of the monotony of our commute, when the stress of deadlines is threatening our peace, or when we struggle with our coworkers or our boss. But our work is one way we partner with…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | Afghan people, Archbishop Broglio, Archdiocese for the Military Services, human dignity, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The “human dignity” of Afghanistan’s people “must be respected” amid the chaos in the country, the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Aug. 17.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Assumption, Between the Sundays, Blessed Mother, dogma, Dormition, Eugenio Pacelli, Fatima, Featured, human dignity, Living the Faith, Marian apparition, Mary, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Pius XII, resurrection of the body, rosary | 0 |
“The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed extraordinary attacks on the truth that underlies this dogma…” Pope Pius XII declared in 1950, “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course o…
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