In the Planning Stages Ever since missing the 2017 total eclipse which I could have viewed in Oregon since I just lived over the border in Washington, I told myself that I would catch the next one happening in 2024. I made a mental note of it and when things started heating up on soc...
All other churches aforesaid are hereby denied the use of other missals, which are to be wholly and entirely rejected; and by this present Constitution, which shall have the force of law in perpetuity. We order and enjoin under pain of Our displeasure that nothing be added to Our newly ...
Well, what’s funny about that is in the US public schools, mandatory public schooling was a means to protestantized children. That’s why Catholic churches created the parochial system. So it’s interesting that in 1922, Oregon tried to outlaw parochial schools saying, no, you have to go...
The boundaries of the new territory were defined in the Congressional Act to be: Oregon on the north, California on the west, the summit of the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the 37th parallel of latitude on the south. By the decree of the President of the United States, Brigham ...
He notes that the United States, “formed on the basis of free churches, adopts a separation between church and state” and hails this as being what the early church had in mind. The Church is not seeking to eliminate the rights granted by the 1st Amendment or somehow attempting to ...
So, the Council isn’t calling us back to some medieval practice, those “horrible” medieval times, the “terrible” Middle Ages, when they knew so little about liturgy that all they could do was build a Chartres Cathedral. (When I see cathedrals and churches built that have a tenth of...
Irony of ironies, there is only a relatively small traditional movement in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, just as in the Anglican Church. They also too little, too late. Where were they when the Deuterocanonical books were expunged from their Scriptures and divorce was formally introduced (...
"Madison’s ideas dovetailed nicely with Jefferson's belief that the ideal moral framework is one in which there is a vast proliferation of inconsequential denominations and independent churches, each competing with the next. "Freedom," Madison said, "arises from a multiplicity of sects." That ...
In fact, the professor (who knew I was Catholic) said that if it was not for the Catholic Church, Protestant churches would not be as pro-life as they are. On a side note, the university passed out a little booklet on health to all the students. In this booklet, there was a page...
Church of England Bishop Harries suggested that Prince Charles’s coronation service should be opened with a Koran reading. In the US, more than 50 churches, including the Washington National Cathedral, hold Koran readings. Is there any reading of the Christian liturgy in mosques?