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 ...
All this was to apply equally to churches, chapels, etc., which should be erected in the diocese at any future time. Any one holding immovable property in trust for the Catholic Church was to transfer titles to such property to the bishop, who thereby becomes sole proprietor of church ...
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...
(In the Catholic Church, a country like the U.S. is divided up into provinces, which are divided up into dioceses, which are made up of individual parishes, or churches.) Still, in the U.S., Catholic organizations own property in nearly every county of all 50 states. Some of those ...
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?
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...
Q. Sadly I have several family members who are baptized Catholics, but as adults attend Protestant churches. They were once obedient but pretty clueless Catholics, that is, they attended Mass and went to Confession occasionally. They are now very good Pr
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 (...
the nation and its schools were still overwhelmingly Protestant. Moreover, the Church in the United States was still small and organizationally primitive, with few priests and churches and even fewer resources. So Catholics operated a relatively small number of schools, mostly in Maryland and Pennsyl...
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...