Public gatherings, including church services and Mass are all going on-line and what I am finding is there seems to be an influx of churches and businesses getting into the social media “business.” Perhaps it’s becoming the “new normal,” at least temporarily. I am in a Lenten frame...
To me, everything about the Church was beautiful. The truth of it, the traditions, the Sacraments and the infusions of grace that come with them. Even the churches themselves, the stone Cathedrals, the stained glass, the columns that stretch to the heavens. Thetranscendenceof it all that pu...
Sixteen parishes were founded successively, together with churches and even a few monasteries. As the distance to Europe made communication very difficult, Greenland, in spite of the small number of souls which it contained, was formed into the Diocese of Gardar, suffragan first to the ...
The emerging campaign by Minnesota bishops is "very unusual,'' said John Green, a political science professor at the University of Akron who studies politics and religion. "Churches are about spiritual things, and it's not that churches can't take positions on human behavior or sexuality,'' ...
flags belong in Catholic churches. Link between nationalism and faith; Policy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding flag displays in Catholic churches; Regulations of a diocese in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the display of flags in Catholic churches....
Those who turn to Saint Joseph for his powerful intercession and good example do much to keep Satan and the other wholly corrupt devils at bay. In this sense, Joseph is the Terror of Demons because when the friends of Jesus avail themselves of his salutary influence, Saint Joseph is for th...
It was, nevertheless, permitted in certain churches, and is even yet preserved at Toledo as an historical monument of the ancient Spanish Church. The Cistercian Reform, too, was introduced into Spain, during the lifetime of St. Bernard, and the cathedral chapters lived by the Rule of St....
Consider, for instance the dazzling diversity between Junipero Serra, who poured energies into building a string of California mission churches, and Thomas Merton, who wrote of the same building: “The church was stifling with solemn, feudal and unbreathable fictions. … The spring outside seemed...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church also cites our own Eastern Code of Canon Law nineteen times, further assuring us that it is an important tool intended for the Eastern Churches as well as the Latin Church. The administration of the Sacra- ments or Holy Mysteries in the Byz- antine ...
Like a dinosaur’s bones, their buildings are all that remain. The last Apostle, F.V. Woodhouse, died as long ago as 1901, but the churches endure. Yes, Aumbry, the Edinburgh church ishere(fine baldachino) and now its interesting murals are being restored. No doubt the iconography reflec...