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All the bishops of the empire were required to sign the Acts of the synod and to swear to do away with icons in their dioceses. The Paulicians were now treated well, while image-worshippers and monks were fiercely persecuted. Instead of paintings of saints the churches were decorated with ...
Years ago, Milwaukee’s auxiliary bishop spoke to the confirmation class at the parish where I was a youth minister and opened the floor to questions. A student asked, “What is the purpose and meaning of life?” Perhaps the youth tried to stump the bishop, who answered without missing a...
Because in studying their messages and lessons I detected some themes that serve as blueprints for a ‘new world order’ (oh, my!) but based upon Catholic social and moral teachings. Mary, in those apparitions, has the answer to today’s slide towards cultural and social moral decadence and...
I just finished teaching a course on icons and iconoclasm. The latter area has seen a surge of new books recently, including James Noyes,The Politics of Iconoclasm: Religion, Violence, and the Culture of Image-Breaking in Christianity and Islam(I.B. Tauris, 2013). By surveying Catholic, Pro...
Please clarify: near the end of the video the Vatican II statement that those who are baptized are justified is criticized as wrong and heretical, but in another video on the Protestant idea of justification, you said we are justified in baptism. Is the difference only their status in a Pr...
During the contest Elijah had also mocked the false prophets of Baal and their false god. 1 Kings 18:27-29- “And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, ‘Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep...
Many of his icons and sacred art can be seen at his website http://www.kenwooart.com/index.html. Classically trained, Ken brings a new contemporary spirit to the sacred images of the Church’s past history. His exquisite rendering of this saint, in a typical icon format, is powerful ...
Mass is heard on Sundays and Feastdays, or, rather, on those days the people go and say some prayers before the icons, or holy images, the services being generally so long that very few remain to the end. In any case there is no definite teaching on this point any more than on ...
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