I first noticed it many years ago in reading the Catholic press. For as long as I've been a Christian the struggle between orthodox and progressive theology has been a highly visible fact of life in the Christian world. (I'm using "progressive" as a convenient way of referring to the t...
This is the rise of Green Man aka Arab al Khidr or Bacchus. In 1317 the Catholic Church published the Council of Vienne detailing “Perfection of the Human Person” a decidedly Gnostic/Catharist teaching seen today in Mormons, Order of Melchizedek or 2000 years ago in Julianists. Watch for...
No Clear 'Pope Francis Effect' Among American Catholics In the United States, home to the world's fourth-largest Catholic population, the pope appears to be well-liked by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. But has the pope's popularity produced a Catholic resurgence in the U.S.?
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Catholic education may also play a role, including for the choice of students to attend a particular university. Whether values and the Catholic faith matter for students, or rather how much they matter, is important for the future of Catholic universities in a context of rising competition as ...
Pope Francis calls Trump’s plans of mass deportation of immigrants ‘a disgrace’ Pope Francis says Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace.” At Notre Dame, the first ‘America’s Team,’ they wake the echoes on a run to another national tit...
They were having an ardent discussion about the new Pope, Francis I. I saw the new neighbor, who is a Protestant, look mystified. Why were these women so upset with the Pope? The French bourgeoisie is very Catholic. To what extent they are truly religious, I can't say, but for exam...
The catholic church shot itself in the foot on birth control. On the 25th July 1968, Pope Paul VI overode the delegates to the Vatican Council, issued an encyclical named Humanae Vitae, and, by that instrument, forbad birth control. The church lost a huge amount of credibility. It kept ...
The catholic church shot itself in the foot on birth control. On the 25th July 1968, Pope Paul VI overode the delegates to the Vatican Council, issued an encyclical named Humanae Vitae, and, by that instrument, forbad birth control. The church lost a huge amount of credibility. It kept ...
Pope names like-minded ally Cardinal McElroy as Washington archbishop Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. He is tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the st...