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04/20/2018, 19.11 EGYPT Christian communities will be able to complete the necessary red tape in four months. Egypt wants to improve the legal framework in which freedom of worship is exercised. The new step touches 102 churches and 64 places of prayer. Some 3,500 places of worship should follow. Cairo (AsiaNews) – The Egyptian government […]
April 20, 2018
Kerri Lynn Bishop • October 1, AD2017 School, both government mandated and Catholic faith formation through CCD classes, is now in session. In America, children wake up, get ready for the day, and head out the door. They wait for the big yellow school bus to take them to several hours of learning and socializing. […]
April 19, 2018
Catholic Star Herald. by Michael M. Canaris April 19,2018 This week I was invited to Villanova University to participate in their conference celebrating the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’s election, titled “Pope Francis – A Voice Crying Out in the World: Mercy, Justice, Love, and Care for the Earth.” The esteemed list of participants included […]
April 19, 2018
Christopher White Apr 16, 2018 NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT VILLANOVA, Pennsylvania – While Villanova University may still be reeling from winning a national title in basketball earlier this month, organizers of a major conference timed to coincide with the five-year anniversary of Francis’s papacy say their efforts show that more importantly than athletics, “Right now we are […]
April 19, 2018
Blogs | Apr. 18, 2018 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/vatican-rejects-german-bishops-intercommunion-proposal Sources confirm that, with the Holy Father’s approval, the Vatican’s head of doctrine has thrown out the bishops’ pastoral guide allowing Holy Communion for some Protestant spouses, but the Pope wishes the rejection letter to remain secret. Edward Pentin The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval […]
April 19, 2018
Constance T. Hull https://catholicexchange.com/dont-afraid-spend-time-priest I’ve come to realize through recent discussions with friends that a lot of parishioners are intimidated by their parish priest. Typically this is not caused by some form of domineering clericalism or because the priest is unfriendly. Since there is a natural division between priests and the laity — a division […]
April 19, 2018
Joynel Fernandes | Mar 20, 2018 The image of Jesus remains calm amidst the sneering, scowling figures around him. The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. – Edgar Allan Poe Hieronymus Bosch (1515–1516), a Dutch painter, was born in the mid-1400s in the southern Netherlands. As a man of his times he […]
April 18, 2018
Catholic News Service OSV Newsweekly WASHINGTON (CNS) — An organization of 1,200 priests has called for revisions in the way seminarians are prepared for ministry so that the U.S. Catholic Church can better address challenges that include declining membership and falling seminary enrollment. The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests addressed five areas of concern, saying […]
April 18, 2018
John L. Allen Jr. Apr 18, 2018 EDITOR ROME – For most Americans and Europeans, the global north-south shift in the Church’s center of gravity over the last half-century truly comes home when they look around at priests and nuns these days, and see swelling numbers of Filipinos, Indians, Nigerians, Koreans, and multiple other […]
April 18, 2018
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Apr 18, 2018 / 03:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis said that to make the sign of the cross is to mark ourselves as Christians, and that it is something we should do often to remind ourselves that we belong to God. “The cross is the badge that […]
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