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Sir, – In light of more disturbing and heartbreaking revelations of child sexual abuse in religious-run schools, one is reminded that the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse revealed that thousands of children were raped and abused in Catholic schools across Ireland over decades. The majority...
I’m a Catholic teenage girl and I’m confident I’ve got a religious vocation. I’ll try explaining everything as best I can so here we go. I’m one of four kids, the middle child between my siblings at home, of a Catholic family. We attend Mass every Saturday evening and I’m...
Sixty years ago, the Catholic contemplative Thomas Merton, who was not blind to the atrocities committed in his own time, could still say that we “exist solely for this, to be the place God has chosen for the divine Presence. The real value of our own self is the sign of God in our...
None of us will be shouting “Hey, look, it’s me!” in heaven. We won’t even be shouting “Hallelujah!” We will havebecomeHallelujah! Vine maple, Washington Cascades, October 2017 (Photo by Jim Friedrich) To enter the abyss of God, says Catholic theologian Caitlin Smith Gilson, is...
When the Pope clarified he was the leader of the Catholic Church, St. Peter was intrigued. He decided to take the query to God Himself, walking away to talk with Him through Heaven's Gate. He asks him the same question: was there really someone claiming he was God's representative on ...
And from then on I started to believe a lot, I mean, yes, my parents taught me, Yes, I am a Catholic or so, yes of course… but, when I saw that I asked God for things and God helped me, from then on I realised that He does exist [...]”. (15 CM Ba) However, people...
The standard narrative, especially among practitioners, is that the ensuing Afro-Catholic syncretism present in most forms of Candomblé up to this day resulted from the prohibition against worshipping their deities. For example, the deity associated with hunting and usually depicted armed with a bow...
turn America over to the pope. Anti-Catholic venom was part of the typical American school day, along with Bible readings. In Massachusetts, a convent—coincidentally near the site of the Bunker Hill Monument—was burned to the ground in 1834 by an anti-Catholic mob incited by reports that...
On the way home, we passed by a different store that had lots of warm fuzzy slippers, and I bought a pair, so now, at home, my feet are even warm. Heaven! I plan to write myself a note to remind me that next year we need to pack warm slippers and a hot water bottle, and ...