While the changes were made in consultation with the Catholic Church and approved by San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer(above), the Catholic affiliation has in the past been an obstacle to making deals
Original article in U.S Catholic by FATHER BRYAN MASSINGALE Originally Published August 11, 2016 “In February I participated in a panel on transgender Catholics at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress called “Transgender in the Church: One Bread, One Body.” Almost 800 people attended...
6. The Church of S. M. Sopra Minerva This is a Dominican-order church and one of the most famous in Rome. The wordsoprameans above and finds its place in the name since this church is literally built above the Temple of Isis, which the Catholic church thought was the Templ...
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. ...
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, ...
The only feasible explanation for Pacelli's silence was his perception of Croatia as a Catholic bridgehead into the East. The Vatican and the local bishops approved of mass conversion in Croatia (even though it was the result of fear rather than conviction), because they believed that this ...
for Mass in the House of God, but God instills these habits in us so that our actions may be oriented according to the will of the Father who only wants our good. According to Catholic theology, when we accept God’s will and habits, they become manifest through faith, hope and ...
Catholic church, they had to leave. He was not going to allow division. So some left, but I stayed. Those who met at the [leaders] all left and started their own church. I was going to their service in the mornings, and went to the Charismatic Mass in the evening each Sunday. I ...
The inerrancy of Scripture is common ground for Protestants and Roman Catholics.[1]However, 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 Ca...
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...