but shall for ever remain valid and have the force of law, notwithstanding previous constitutions or edicts of provincial or synodal councils, and notwithstanding the usage of the churches aforesaid, established by very long and even immemorial prescription, saving only usage of more than 200 years...
Martina California State University, Long Beach, The Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, Long Beach, California, USAEdward J.a California State University, Long Beach, The Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, Long Beach, California, USA...
his first mission. His calling was to convert the indigenous people of Mexico to the Catholic faith, but he was also called to plant churches. The world of the Aztecs was so much more ostentatious than that of the Indians in Alta California. The churches in Mexico were more elaborate and ...
During spring break our group spent a week in Palm Springs (most groups descend on Daytona Beach), evangelizing in the crowds of hedonistic college students. Close ties with local churches is essential to this outreach; families from Palm Springs churches provided lodging for us. During the ...
“Christians” say about us Catholics, in the Latin country’s, new churches and sects , who call themselves Christians, many times stated that Constantine found the Catholic “sect” and make Christianity a pagan Religion, also many stated that the popes where pagan, and corrupt, is there ...
“In the churches I grew up in, art had no place, beauty had little place. Sentimentality and kitsch, what [founder and then-president] Dr. [Peter] Sampo called ‘the banality of received ideas,’ had a huge place. I never set foot in a Catholic church until I went to college, and...
“I wanted to open things up to different ideas, and they will take quite a long time,” he said. Welby, who is 67, will reach the compulsory retirement age of 70 in 2026. A group of conservative archbishops, through an alliance called the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches, ...
Both Sacred Heart and Star of the Sea churches played pivotal roles in the community. According to George Salazar, a long time member of Sacred Heart church, a community hall used to stand fronting Pāhoa Village Road, where the parking lot for the Montessori school is today, and was a fre...
In 2018, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishopswarnedthat racism often “comes in the form of the sin of omission, when individuals, communities, and even churches remain silent and fail to act against racial injustice when it is encountered.” Racism kills and marginalizes; this direc...
This arrogance alone should give us pause. Yet some of the mainline churches in the United States have become involved in eccentric forms of the environmentalist movement. In its most extreme form, environmentalism worships nature as the goddess Gaia, while speaking of human beings as if they we...