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by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas, charity, Church management, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI | 0 |
One sometimes wonders why Francis hasn’t yet been termed the “Lear Pope,” meaning a leader who doesn’t hesitate to act – who, in fact, can come off as perhaps a bit rash or impetuous at times, but never indecisive.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican reform | 0 |
While breaking the Italian stranglehold on church governance may appear a no-brainer, perhaps it’s worth pausing a moment to consider the case for the defense.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 13, 2022 | Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis | 0 |
The Catholic Church is the world’s largest private provider of health care, and perhaps these thoughts may be of some use to practitioners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | All Saints Day, lead, News, News Analysis, saints and martyrs, U.S. Catholics | 0 |
As the Church approaches All Saints Day, it is a good time to wonder: Where are the American saints?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2022 | confession, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), lead, News, News Analysis, Seal of Confession | 0 |
A new report in the United Kingdom is recommending legislation that will mandate the reporting of child abuse could lead to a clash with a central tenet of Catholic teaching: The seal of confession.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2022 | Abortion, Bishop Robert Barron, Disabilities, Down syndrome, Iceland, Interviews, lead, News, News Analysis, Word on Fire Ministries | 0 |
Recently the Word on Fire Institute announced the creation of a new “Venerable Jerome Lejune Fellowship,” designed to advocate for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities, especially those with Down Syndrome.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, clerical sexual abuse, Houston, lead, News, News Analysis, Obituary | 0 |
Houston just suffered a major loss with the death on Sept. 19 of 91-year-old Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza, who led the archdiocese for 22 years from 1984 to 2006.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 9, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Nobel Peace Prize, norway, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Protestant Reformation | 0 |
Every pope has been nominated at one point or another since Benedict XV, who reigned from 1914 to 1922, but so far none of them have ever become Nobel laureates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2022 | Abortion, lead, News, News Analysis, Nobel Prize | 0 |
Just as no one should pronounce on the clerical abuse scandals in the Church without first listening to survivors, anyone who wishes to discuss abortion intelligently probably should first absorb the testimony of women who’ve actually had one.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2022 | Abortion, lead, News, News Analysis, Nobel Prize | 0 |
Just as no one should pronounce on the clerical abuse scandals in the Church without first listening to survivors, anyone who wishes to discuss abortion intelligently probably should first absorb the testimony of women who’ve actually had one.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Papacy, Pope John Paul II, Popes | 0 |
Baseball’s ferment started me thinking about a similar question vis-à-vis Catholicism. What might be considered the church’s own most unbreakable record?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Catholic population, China, demography, lead, Nato, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine | 0 |
The fact that Francis and his Vatican allies sometimes sound more like China, or India, than their historical partners in the West when talking about Ukraine is, naturally, another reason why some Catholic critics are unhappy.
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