William Rowe has done a little improvising while celebrating Mass on Sunday mornings at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mount Carmel, Ill. Now those deviations have led to his resignation in an incident that may be tied to global changes to the Catholic liturgy. Last Sunday, instead of saying...
@rtpnel: RT @matt_gilbertson: I might be a very lapsed Catholic, but this makes me 😭😭 The great Sister Janet Meade who made church actually enjoyabl… - 3 years ago @Vikkik88: RT @kymaher: I greatly admired the work of Sister Janet Mead and cherished our times together over...
There is no Communion of the faithful, as at the end of the Maundy Thursday Mass, all Hosts but the one are consumed, and the church, chapel, or oratory is stripped bare. That is the traditional rite of Good Friday. Anything else is a post-traditional rite. ...
its interpretation is not. In fact, Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis asserts: “the written Word cannot cry out to you, ‘Wait! You have misinterpreted me!’ But the Church can.”[2]Thus, Roman Catholics believe that the Church, in the person of Peter’s successor and the bishops ...
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My brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome to today's celebration of the Holy Mass that commemorates the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. John the Baptist was a righteous and holy man[pause]and it cost him his life. Truly humble in character, he felt unworthy to stoop down and untie...
And they carry round the image itself, circumambulating seven times the innermost temple, to the accompaniment of pipes, tabors and hymns, and with merry-making they carry it down again underground. And if they are asked the meaning of this mystery, they answer and say: ‘To-day at this...
When I became a Christian (not even Catholic yet, mind you—I had my heart set on finding some nice, respectable, non-denominational church near my college at the time), I already knew I had to let go of a few things in order to follow Jesus. I have often spoken of the night when...
Catholic priests I’ve known well is my Michigan neighbor Fr. Andrew Greeley. On Saturday afternoons on his bluff overlooking Lake Michigan he would celebrate Mass for a congregation occasionally containing some Daleys. Greeley wrote an outspoken liberal column for the Sun-Times and other papers, ...
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Merivale, Hist of the Romans under the Empire; The Fall of the Roman Republic, 1856; Conversion of the Roman Empire, 1865; Milman, Hist of Christianity; Hist of Latin Christianity; Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire; The Expositor, IV, viii, ...