The Novus Ordo -- not so much for what it is inherently, but for what it isn't, for what it lacks -- appears as the "Mass of Cain," arrogantly bringing his own works to God; the ancient Mass is the "Mass of Abel," who humbly offered God a sacrifice -- a lamb that pre...
Protestants will often appeal to these passages to show the Catholic Church’s teaching that the Mass is Christ’s sacrifice contradicts the Bible. If Christ offered himself “once for all,” so the argument goes, and the Catholic Church says that Christ continues to offer himself in the Eucha...
And the expunging of “occupied” might be only the first of many gifts intended to bolster Netanyahu’s chances. Senator Lindsey Graham, who also boasts of his close ties to the Israeli Prime Minister, intends to initiate legislative action to go one step further and compel the United State...
his nephew Lot from the four hostile kings who had fallen on him and robbed him, Melchisedech, King of Salem (Jerusalem), "bringing forth [proferens] bread and wine for he was a priest of the Most High God, blessed him [Abraham] and said: Blessed be Abram by the Most High God ....