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Vatican to Consider Elevating Las Vegas to Metropolitan Archdiocese, With Reno and Salt Lake City as Suffragan Sees…
The Vatican will consider a plan to elevate the Diocese of Las Vegas to a metropolitan see, after U.S. bishops were consulted on the plan during their fall plenary meeting in Baltimore. The plan would see Las Vegas become an archdiocese, with the Dioceses of Reno and Salt Lake City as suffragan dioceses, sources close to the U.S. bishops’ conference told The Pillar. After consultation on the idea during an executive session of the USCCB this week, the proposal will be considered by the Congregation for Bishops in the Vatican curia, before a final decision from Pope Francis, sources added. The Las Vegas diocese was erected in 1995, when its territory in southern Nevada was carved from the Diocese of Reno. In 2020, the diocese had at least 600,000 Catholics, constituting nearly 30% of the re...
There is no Vatican secret that escapes the Chinese regime…
> Italiano> English> Español> Français> All the articles of Settimo Cielo in English If you want to receive (or go back to receiving) a notification for every new article, click HERE and subscribe to the Newsletter from Settimo Cielo! * On the morning of this November 15, at the Vatican, at the press conference to present the international study conference “Euntes in mundum universum” organized by the dicastery for evangelization, Settimo Cielo posed a few questions regarding China to Msgr. Camillus Johnpillai (in the photo), head of the dicastery. In his responses, transcribed below from the video recording of the press conference, there is some new information. Concerning in particular: – the working meeting on China that is held every week at the Vatican betwee...
T. rex could have been 70% bigger than fossils suggest, new study shows…
There’s no denying that Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the biggest and baddest dinosaurs to ever walk the planet. But exactly how big could this ferocious dinosaur get? In a new investigation, researchers attempted to answer that question. Paleontologists from the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario, estimated that the largest T. rex may have tipped the scales at a whopping 33,000 pounds (15,000 kilograms), making it heavier than an average school bus, which weighs about 24,000 pounds (11,000 kg). The scientists presented their findings on Nov. 5 at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s (SVP) annual conference in Toronto. Currently, the heftiest T. rex on record is a specimen nicknamed “Scotty,” which weighed 19,555 pounds (8,870 kg) when it was alive — ab...
U.S. Bishops Decide to Put off Rewriting Voting Guide Until After 2024 Election…
By Zelda Caldwell Baltimore, Md., Nov 16, 2022 / 17:30 pm The U.S. Catholic bishops will postpone writing a full revision of the teaching document on the political responsibility of Catholic voters until after the 2024 election. The teaching document, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” is meant to advise Catholic voters on how to apply Church teaching to the decisions they make in the ballot box. The guide, for example, states that the abortion should be a “preeminent” political issue for Catholics. In the introduction to the 2019 document, the bishops wrote: “The threat of abortion remains our preeminent priority because it directly attacks life itself, because it takes place within the sanctuary of the family, and because of the number of lives destroyed. At the same t...
Tuesday’s new White House bid pits Donald Trump against Catholic GOP rising star Ron DeSantis…
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday his third bid for the White House, potentially setting the stage for what could be a competitive Republican primary with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida), a Catholic, should he also choose to run. If Trump’s third bid for the Republican nomination proves successful, it would set up a rematch between the ex-president and Democratic President Joe Biden, a Catholic who defeated Trump in 2020. “America’s comeback starts right now,” Trump said of his presidential run at his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, alleging the United States has been “a nation in decline” under the Biden administration. His remarks came after he filed federal paperwork on Nov. 15 declaring his 2024 candidacy. Trump’s announcement is expected...
Is politics the result of original sin?
Stained glass window in the cathedral of Brussels depicting Adam and Eve eating the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden. jorisvo / Shutterstock.com Having just concluded the 2022 midterm elections, discussions of 2024 presidential candidates feel worse than seeing Christmas decorations for sale in stores before Halloween passes. The electoral exhaustion many Americans feel — or worse still, the rage that overwhelms many of us at the mere mention of this or that politician’s name — leads some to conclude that, surely, a loving God would not have intended this. Politics must be the result of sin. The question was raised recently at a panel discussion called “The Creation of Politics” at the annual conference hosted by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre D...
What’s the point of Advent?
“‘Advent’ does not mean ‘expectation,’ as some may think. It is a translation of the Greek word parousia, which means ‘presence’ or, more accurately, ‘arrival,’ i.e. the beginning of a presence. In antiquity, the word was a technical term for the presence of a king or ruler and also of the god being worshiped, who bestows his parousia upon his devotees for a time. ‘Advent,’ then, means a presence begun, the presence being that of God.” — Pope Benedict XVI, Dogma and Preaching I have been asked more than once, particularly by my evangelical friends, why Catholics and mainline Protestant Christians put so much stock in “ritualistic” sorts of things not explicitly spelled out in Scripture, things like Advent, and its trappings — the purple vestments, the Advent wreaths and colored candle...
Indiana Jones 5 and the Temple of Relativism…
Will the 2023 film reflect the ‘faith seeking understanding’ element of ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,’ or the drab rationalism of ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?’ The film industry is abuzz over Disney’s forthcoming movie about the world’s most beloved archaeologist — Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, Jr. Details are still scant on plot, but Harrison Ford once again is donning the whip and fedora in what he has hinted may be his last acting gig before retiring. John Williams is again scoring the music in what he has indicated will also be his final film. Series creator George Lucas is not involved, having sold Lucasfilm properties (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) to Disney in 2012. Director Steven Spielberg, who helmed the previous four Indy sagas, turned over directing rein...
What happens during a heart attack?
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Presence even when absent: A husband’s gift to his wife…
“The beloved is said to be in the lover… [even] in the absence of the beloved, because of the lover’s longing towards…the good he wills to the beloved with a love of friendship.”Thomas Aquinas One thing my marriage has taught me is that really ‘being-present’ to someone must be learned and practiced. It would seem this should come naturally—given that it is at the very heart of human life. Perhaps it comes ‘naturally’ in the sense that true love grounds and calls for such presence. But that does not mean it comes without effort. Experience shows that even when we love, we can still be quite distracted, and even fail to ‘be there’ for loved ones in basic ways. This has the most obvious significance in marriage. Here, as in all deeper relationships, there is the dual challenge of being reall...
FBI releases video of attack on firebombed Buffalo pregnancy center, says FACE Act charges possible…
By Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 14, 2022 / 14:07 pm The FBI has released a video and photos of the June attack on the upstate New York pro-life pregnancy center, CompassCare Pregnancy Services, that shocked pro-lifers across the nation during a string of violent assaults against pregnancy centers country-wide. The FBI also announced a reward of up to $25,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the arsonists. And in another notable development, the FBI’s press release states that those responsible for the vandalism could be charged with a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, which has been used predominantly, if not exclusively, against pro-life activists. “FBI Buffalo is seeking the public’s help to identify the individuals respons...
What ‘active participation’ at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass really means…
By Phil Lawler ( bio – articles – email ) | Nov 14, 2022 Vatican II called for active participation by the laity in the Eucharistic liturgy. No one, to my knowledge, disputes that active participation is desirable. The question is: what does “active participation” mean? Let me offer an answer, in a roundabout way. Eighteen years have passed—yet the memory is still fresh—since that happy evening when Keith Foulke grabbed a bouncing ball, tossed to first base, and the den in the Lawler household exploded in jubilation. After years of painful disappointment, we had won the World Series! Did you notice that I said we won? Unless I am much mistaken, nobody who wore a Red Sox uniform that night was aware of the Lawler family’s existence. We had thrown no pitches, fielded no flies, st...
