The United States has always been and remains a very religious nation despite steep declines in attendance at churches, synagogues, and mosques – trends that have captured far more headlines in recent years than the nation’s enduring faith. America is also a majority Christian nation, though ...
chanting what can actually be attempted in the smaller churches, chapels, and oratories, to which the Sacred Chant can be a great addition in the traditional Roman liturgy, not as mere secular performance, but in the actual religious setting for which it was composed, the Traditional Latin Ma...
But in the spring, “by leave of the Governor, they built themselves a number of rude boats, and in March most of them left for South Carolina; two hundred of them in ten boats going off at one time, indulging the hope that they might thus work their way along to their native and ...
Patrick and immediately succeeded him were mostly bishops and founders of churches; those of the sixth century were of the monastic order; those of the seventh century were mostly anchorites who loved solitude, silence, continued prayer, and the most rigid austerities. Nor were the women behind...
Clearly, Protestant churches also have clergy and staff that who have committed sex crimes [7], but the focus today is on the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). This is the first of three articles on pedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). This article goes much deeper than one on ...
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 ...
My churches are vandalized before the eyes of My children…My altars are desecrated before the eyes of My children…My priests are attacked before the eyes of My children…My male and female religious are not safe in some countries… Where are you going, My children, where are you going?
Coarsened exact matching was used to match patients based on the county-level percentage of the population affiliated with Catholic churches and urbanicity, and the zip code鈥搇evel number of hospitals within 5 and 20 miles, median household income, and percentage of th...
What Protestant churches were established by the Reformation? What was the goal of the Catholic Reformation? What new religious order was associated with the Catholic Reformation? What year did the Gilded Age start? What year was the Toleration Act? What year did America get the Statue of Libert...
As a national church body, the CIC worked to bridge the racial chasm that existed in black and white Catholic churches in places like New York and Detroit. In the Midwest, and Iowa in particular, the CIC included an eclectic mix of Mexican American, African American, and Anglo religious ...