Catholic Rural Life marks a century and plans to sow seeds for another 100 years
For the past 100 years, Catholic Rural Life has ministered to Catholics who live and work in a rural setting. The St. Paul-based national organization receives support from 80 dioceses. It now has members in 45 states.
#BeHuman: 30 Nobel Peace Prize laureates to attend human fraternity meeting
The second World Meeting on Human Fraternity, under the title #BeHuman, takes place on May 10-11 in Rome and Vatican City State and is organized by the Fratelli Tutti Foundation. Around 30 recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize will participate in the “Roundtable of Peace” and will release a “Charter of Humanity” on fraternal coexistence […]
Vatican meeting on ‘human fraternity’ seeks ‘answers’ for the future but is silent on faith
The Vatican event, titled ‘Be Human,’ gathers secular leaders, Nobel laureates, and various professionals to discuss ‘proposals for a fraternal planet,’ drawing from Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti.Read More
BlackRock CEO tells WEF that countries with declining population will be ‘big winners’ thanks to AI
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink recently told the World Economic Forum (WEF) that developed countries with shrinking populations will be better prepared for the social problems that come from ‘substituting humans for machines.’Read More
Omnium gatherum
Three things caught my eye this morning. First, posts are still arriving on Fr. Hunwicke’s blog, may he rest in peace. He scheduled them (probably). right now there are interesting notes about Rogation days. HERE New Oxford Review… for … Read More →
Vatican to publish new document on Marian apparitions next week
Argentinian prelate Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 09:02 am (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrine office will publish a new document next week on discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural events. The Holy See Press Office announced on Tuesday that Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the […]
Vatican to Publish New Document on Marian Apparitions Next Week
Andreas Solaro Argentinian Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez speaks to the press on February 12, 2024 at San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican during a private audience of Argentina’s President Javier Milei with Pope Francis. Cardinal Fernandez will speak at a livestreamed Vatican press conference at noon on the day of the document’s publication.
“You Catholics Think You Need to Earn Your Salvation”
You’re talking to your Protestant friend and he drops this one on you…. “You Catholics think you need to earn your salvation” What do you say? Here, we’ll help. The idea that Catholics think you need to earn your salvation is another holdover from the Protestant Reformation. When the Reformation began, Protestants preached that we […]
Expert Consultation in Vatican demands dignified work
In an interview with Vatican News, Monsignor Robert Vitillo, Secretary General of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), discusses how international experts participating in the Consultation in the Vatican, jointly sponsored by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will support rights and dignified conditions for workers, and will be an opportunity for effective […]
The Communion Conundrum…
The Easter season provides an opportunity to celebrate the life and death of Jesus Christ. His sacrifice on the Cross brought light to the world conquering sin and death, his destruction of the works of the Devil, and the opening of the gates of heaven…