In our own times, we Catholics, wanting to be close to her always, offer her special presents in May: pilgrimages, visits to churches dedicated to her, little sacrifices in her honor, periods of study and well-finished work offered up to her, and a more attentive recitation of the rosary...
“I very strongly value tradition as a theological concept, as the basis of Catholic epistemology. It’s how we know what we know as Catholics. That underlies my artwork; that’s part of what I’m trying to communicate,” he said. But his work enjoys enormous appeal across a wide range...
June 20, is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So the two feast days are right next to each other, which is appropriate given the closeness of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, both on Earth and in Heaven.
The United Kingdom repeals its Anti-Catholic Penal Laws — allowing Catholics to leave the country and come to America. 1776 Signed and sealed Nine of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence are of Irish origin. Irish-American Heritage MonthFAQs ...
Catholics in the Movies Colleen McDannell. Oxford University Press, 2008 Read preview Overview Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America Lee Grieveson. University of California Press, 2004 Read preview Overview Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies Christel Schmidt...
“He made no manier bones ne stickyng, but went in hande to offer up his only son Isaac.” (“He made no sorts of bones at stabbing, but proceeded to offer up his only son Isaac.”) While today the expression is followed by “about,” this wasn’t the case early on. For the ...
‘fuck’ is so ubiquitous in Gotham that it has lost its edge, so a New Yorker in need of a blistering insult must look elsewhere. ‘There may be some truth to the old joke that in Los Angeles, people say “Have a nice day” and mean “Fuck off,” while in New York, people ...
Catholics families only. Here Fr. Anthony’s work was very dedicated and tireless, with extensive travel by peddling a bicycle and then a second hand motor bike…..Distance didn’t matter when the roots of his relationship with parishioners were strong…..Then Bishop of the Diocese, was so ...
Its examples include “a Cherry-Tart cut into Rashers” (1634); “a rasher of watermelon” (1890); and “a rasher of light bread” (1965). You may be wondering whether there’s a connection between “rasher” and two familiar English words—the medical noun “rash,” for a skin ...
but it’s our understanding that “-stein” may indeed be pronounced as “-steen” in some local dialects of Swiss-German. Be that as it may, we don’t believe a name, especially your own, must be pronounced the same as in its country of origin. Once your family emigrates, all bets...