Massachusetts, as well as New York and Philadelphia, experienced the storm: a convent was burned, churches were threatened, monuments to revered heroes of the Church were razed, and cemeteries desecrated. The consoling memory, however, of this period, is that Massachusetts furnished the Otises, ...
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...
Buddhism, however, prevailed at court, and two of the Nestorian churches were converted into heathen temples. The prosperity of the Nestorians in China continued throughout the Mongol period. We may judge of their numbers and influence by the fact that Friar Odoric, about 1324, found three ...
This generation has gone very far – so far that churches are being seized in order to profane them (4), forgetting that no one is more powerful than Our King and Lord Jesus Christ (cf. Eph. 1:18-23). YOU DO NOT SEE THE GOOD THAT EVERY CALL BRINGS WITH IT; ON THE CONTRARY, YOU...
miles from one other parish and about 5 from another, but those are in good condition, too, and hardly need the addition of our parish’s members. Besides, if St. Bernadette’s were to close it would add thousands of people to those two churches and there would still need to be three...
While clergy are always grateful when a happy couple has chosen to plight their troth in a Catholic church, ensuring that their union is sacramentally binding, the last thirty years of the ever-burgeoning wedding industry means that many couples are increasingly treating churches and clergy as tho...
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...
he was also the President of the Victorian Council of Churches, when I was the Lutheran member of the executive. We attended a lot of meetings together, and always found we had much in common. I well remember the day when he ordained my friend Tony (who sits at this table sharing the...
"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 ...
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