The above statement from the Pontifical Council’s document on“Women’s Cultures: Equality and Difference”is a response to Pope Francis’s call for a discussion of“feminine genius”and its role in the Church. If in fact women are “oriented to the common good,” then this is the best ...
Traditionally in the West, the episcopacy has the plenitude of priestly power; bishops—archbishops, patriarchs, and the pope are bishops—alone have the power to ordain to major orders. In the Roman Catholic Church the ordination to the priesthood is considered asacrament, conferring on the rec...
Despite the church’s efforts to delicately rosy up and combine the fetes of the past, these people were surrounded by fearful imagery most of the time, whether it was a lack of food in the cupboard, the rush of pillaging neighbors who didn’t ascribe to that whole “do not covet thy ...
but by the traditional sons and daughters of the Father in Heaven who have remained steadfast to bring the One, True, Catholic, and Apostolic Church through the End Times and into the New Era for all of God’s children.
Define Catholic reform. Catholic reform synonyms, Catholic reform pronunciation, Catholic reform translation, English dictionary definition of Catholic reform. n the reform movement of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and early 17th centuries consid
For the Catholic parent, there is no more important task than communicating our faith to our children. That doesn’t just mean teaching our kids Catholic prayers and rituals. It means teaching them how to have a meaningful and personal relationship with God. How to think and act morally. How...
Have you ever witnessed a young child being carried out of church while having a meltdown and yelling, “No thank you! No thank you!” Or, on a more positive note, maybe you’ve been impressed by the polite behavior of the … Use the ‘Fortress and Communion’ Prayer to Heal Past Hu...
All persons belonging to any religious society, church, or denomination may celebrate their marriage according to the rules and principles of such religious society, church, or denomination. Persons intending to be joined in marriage must before their marriage obtain a licence from the county clerk ...
Michigan. The State of Michigan is bounded on the north by Lake Superior, on the east by Canada, Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair, on the south by Ohio and Indiana...
while modern-day environmentalism often exalts nature over people, the Church looks upon human beings as “the guardians of Creation, which God has entrusted to us,” said Mary A. Ashley of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. “We have a vocation to care for every creature...