This case challenges a Louisiana law that requires abortion chambers be located within thirty miles of a hospital at which the abortionist has admitting privileges. Louisiana argues that this is necessary to pr
Public gatherings, including church services and Mass are all going on-line and what I am finding is there seems to be an influx of churches and businesses getting into the social media “business.” Perhaps it’s becoming the “new normal,” at least temporarily. I am in a Lenten frame...
Two new parishes are created, five new churches are built, and many others are renovated to meet the requirements of liturgical reform. Twenty new schools are also provided. He attends all four sessions of the Vatican council (1962–65), as auxiliary bishop and as primate. On October 9, ...
and just as quickly, parishes and other churches (such as university chapels) figured out how to live stream Mass. This was and continues to be a great boon to those who cannot (or should not) gather indoors with crowds. Being able to stream from anywhere in the world can be marvelous...
The edict was not sent to all the governors, and the same year the missionaries, Hue and Gabet, were arrested at Lhassa and the Franciscan Father Navarro in Hu-pe, and all taken under escort to Canton and Macao; it was not till the war of 1860 that the churches of Peking were ...
The Visitation; Unction, and Communion of the Sick; VII. The Consecration of Churches; VIII. Hymns. I. HISTORY AND ORIGIN.—The term “Celtic Rite” is generally, but rather indefinitely, applied to the various rites in use in Great Britain, Ireland, perhaps in Brittany, and sporadically...
A retrospective booklet on the history of both churches quotes Agnes Kaawaloa as saying, “as the Church was being lowered to solid ground a rainbow formed right above the church. Me, my husband [Edmund], and Luella Pe‘a all witnessed this rainbow. This occurrence was interpreted to mean ...
If you believe so, explain how the Roman Catholic Church teaches that the Orthodox are Sister Churches, with valid sacraments, apostolic succession etc. At best I would argue that they would be in a state of impaired communion (whatever that means anymore). As for Steve Skojec, I don...
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"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 ...