Adregnum – ad regnum. All things that lead to the way of the Lord must be raised up for all the world to see. All peoples be assured that Jesus reigns.
Adregnum means “to the reign” where Deo Regnat, or God reigns. Posts in this category encourage readers to discover the way of the Lord. It celebrates all things that bring out positive, good-feel, thoughts. It celebrates life.
It questions and condemns all works related to the commerce of man when they hurt, threaten, or end life, especially human life.
It tries to find the good in despised creatures, and most especially in people that are hard to go along with. It can raise a voice of dissent and disagree with dominant worldviews when they are perceived as rationalizing any notion of social inequity under whatever circumstances.
In methods that facilitate stakeholder participation and consensus, it explores ideas that aim to liberate the poor. It examines social structures and the law that binds them. It proposes solutions where there is sufficient basis for an issue to be addressed, including unbinding the law if necessary, through peaceful means.
Content under this category affirms the truth that in the end, regardless of how the world goes, good will triumph over evil, and that God reigns over all things, living and non-living. Jesus is Lord and King–past, present, and future. Jesus is Lord and King–here, there, and everywhere.
No force on earth shall be able to silence ad regnum voices when things get in the way of the Lord.
Chicago, Ill., Apr 19, 2021 / 20:01 pm (CNA).
Recent reporting from the Chicago Sun-Times highlighted several religious orders active in Chicago that have not released lists of members credibly accused of sexual abuse.
As closing arguments began April 19 in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda and priests across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offered special Masses “For the Preservation of Peace and Justice.”
Washington D.C., Apr 18, 2021 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
The Society of Catholic Scientists (SCS) will hold its 2021 conference in Washington D.C. on the subject of non-human intelligence.Â
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities has launched a campaign urging Catholics to write letters to pharmaceutical companies urging them to stop the use of abortion-derived cell lines in the development and testing of vaccines.
Louisville, Ky., Apr 17, 2021 / 17:03 pm (CNA).
“The Catholic Church has a deep and cherished commitment to give voice to the child in the womb and to support mothers in choosing life for their unborn children.”
The head of the U.N. refugee agency on Friday said he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central Mediterranean, as warmer weather is expected to bring the usual seasonal uptick in the departure of smugglers’ boats from Libya.
Washington D.C., Apr 16, 2021 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
President Joe Biden will increase the refugee admissions limit by May 15 – after reports that he would keep the refugee cap at its record-low level for this fiscal year.Â
Catholic media tycoon and philanthropist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after being found guilty of unauthorized assembly.
Pope Francis speaks from the Apostolic Palace during his general audience livestream April 14, 2021. / Vatican Media/CNA
Rome, Italy, Apr 15, 2021 / 15:18 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis said Thursday that the poverty and exclusion from the job market caused by the coronavirus pandemic has made the work of Catholic groups that assist poor communities even more urgent.
“Going out to meet the wounded and risen Christ in the poorest communities allows us to regain our missionary vigor, because that is how the Church was born, on the periphery of the Cross,” Pope Francis said in a video message released on April 15.
“If the Church ignores the poor it ceases to be the Church of Jesus and revives old temptations to become an intellectual or moral elite, a new form of Pelagianism, or like the life of the Essenes.”
The pope sent the video message to the participants in the international conference, “A Politics Rooted in the People,” organized by the London-based Centre for Theology and Community.
The event is part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the anti-poverty program of the U.S. bishops’ conference.
In his message, Pope Francis recognized the work of the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty initiative in “helping the poorest communities in the United States to live more with dignity, promoting their participation in the decisions that affect them.”
“When the people are discarded, they are deprived not only of material well-being but also of the dignity of acting, of being the protagonist of their history, of their destiny, of expressing themselves with their values ​​and culture, of their creativity, of their fertility,” the pope said.
“For this reason, it is impossible for the Church to separate the promotion of social justice from the recognition of the values ​​and culture of the people, including the spiritual values ​​that are the source of their sense of dignity.”
The pope said that politics is regenerated when the importance of spirituality in people’s lives is recognized.Â
“One way to ignore the poor is to despise their culture, their spiritual values, their religious values, either by discarding them or exploiting them for the purpose of power,” he said. “Contempt for popular culture is the beginning of the abuse of power.”
The pope also greeted the other conference partners, which include the Caritas Social Action Network, Boston College Law School, the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice, the Loyola University’s Institute of Pastoral Studies, the Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen in Berlin, and the Anglo-Irish province of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
“The poverty and exclusion from the job market that resulted from this pandemic which we are experiencing have made your work and testimony much more urgent and necessary,” Pope Francis said.
“Many of you gathered here have been working for years doing this in the peripheries, and accompanying popular movements. Sometimes it can be uncomfortable. Some accuse you of being too political, others of wanting to impose religion. But you perceive that respecting the people is respecting their institutions, including religious ones; and that the role of these institutions is not to impose anything, but to walk with the people, reminding them of the face of God that always comes before us,” he said.
Fraternity is more than just a virtuous principle, it is a necessary means to confront the great humanitarian and social challenges facing the world, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
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Washington D.C., Apr 14, 2021 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a bill to defund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), alleging its complicity in forced abortions and sterilizations in China.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) introduced the “No Taxpayer Funding for the United Nations Population Fund Act” on Tuesday to permanently strip the UNFPA of federal funding. The UNFPA partners with China, and Roy alleged that the organization is complicit in China’s population control program where women have reportedly endured forced abortions and sterilizations.Â
More than three dozen members are co-sponsoring Roy’s legislation.Â
The Trump administration stopped funding the UNFPA in 2017, citing the fund’s partnership with the Chinese government where “family planning policies still involve the use of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization practices.”
Last week, President Biden included funding for the UNFPA in his discretionary budget request for the 2022 fiscal year, “including for the repayment of arrears, where applicable.” In January, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the agency would work to make $32.5 million available for the fund in 2021.
Roy on Wednesday said that federal funds should not be subsidizing abortion, directly or indirectly.
“American tax dollars should never directly or indirectly support taking of innocent human life through abortion or the dehumanizing act of involuntary sterilization, and they certainly shouldn’t be used to support the oppressive, America-hating Chinese Communist Party in any way whatsoever,” Roy said.Â
“Former President Trump was right to stop funding the UN Population Fund due to their open partnership with the oppressive Chinese regime and their support for China’s atrocious human rights violations. This legislation will continue that policy,” he added.
The UN Population Fund describes itself as the “sexual and reproductive health agency” of the United Nations.Â
“Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled,” the UNFPA website states.
When the Trump administration defunded the UNFPA, it redirected the funding to the US Agency for International Development for family planning programs in line with the Mexico City Policy. That policy required U.S. family planning and global health assistance to not fund groups promoting or performing abortions.Â
Biden revoked the pro-life Mexico City Policy as one of his first acts in office. Previous Democratic presidents have repealed the policy at the outset of their presidencies.Â
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and many other pro-life organizations support Roy’s bill.Â
“The current Administration plans to restart funding UNFPA despite the organization’s consistent support for China’s brutal child policy and the lack of evidence that UNFPA has changed course,” said Thomas McClusky, president of March for Life Action.Â
“The United States should support human rights, not fund international groups complicit in their violation.”