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 ...
In fact, in an essay written in First Things in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI, he recognized the importance of this dual autonomy. 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 ...
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...
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 (...
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...
Please join me in praying for the young baptized Catholic men in my family and in the world, who seem to be swaying in the breeze. I sometimes say to my friends “Where have all our priests/priestly vocations gone? To protestant churches…where they become very active…” We are praying...
to throw open the doors of the churches and go into the world. In just a few short years, this apostolate has grown into hundreds of affiliated groups, spending incalculable hours as witnesses to the Gospel, spreading God’s grace and the beauty of the Truth as far and wide as they...
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