The old Catholic practice of making a “morning offering” of the trials and tribulations one suffers during the day, for one’s own benefit or for the benefit of others is, no doubt, based on strong Biblical foundations. Perhaps tomorrow you are going to find yourself, as someone once sai...
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adapted by Lee Hall from Alan Warner’s novel ‘The Sopranos’, it follows six Catholic school girls from Oban on a day trip to Edinburgh for a choir competition. Thy are warned by Sister that they are not just representing the eponymous school (nicknamed ‘The Virgin Megastore’) ...
The day was first celebrated in 1686 by the Church of Denmark under the guidance of King Christian V. The days in question were Roman Catholic holidays that had survived the Reformation. It was itself a survivor of the holiday reforms carried out by Christian VII in 1771. Great Prayer Day...
A cohort of representatives from religious movements were invited to the conference, including the Archbishop Savva of Zelenograd, the Catholic Cardinal Viganò, Sheikh Iman Hussein, and Archpriest Tkachev. The Duginist outlet Geopolitika’s summary of the event described their speeches as follows: ...
The first is an out-of-print book by Scepter Publishers,An Anthology of Catholic Teaching on Education”>An Anthology of Catholic Teaching on Educationedited by Leonard Franchi. (It’s best to find this in the UK.) This is a collection of 10 Church documents from this past century on the...
day of the conclave and adopted the name of his predecessor in tribute to him. John Paul II is recognised as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, and the ...
From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children. Catholic ...
He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day on 13 November. He refused to grant an annulment to King Lothair II of Lotharingia from Teutberga so that Lothair could marry his mistress Waldrada. When a Council pronounced in favor of annulment, Nicholas I ...
May 10 MARY: PRESENTING JESUS IN THE TEMPLE "She teaches us to have charity. Remember the scene of the presentation of Jesus in the temple. An old man, Simeon, said to Mary, ‘Behold: This child is destined to bring about the fall of many and the rise of many in Israel-and to...