U.S. Catholics seeking a Holy Week respite from the sordid stories of clerical sexual abuse of minors got no relief. Instead between Palm Sunday and Good Friday, additional allegations were leveled against priests across the country, and bishops came under heightened scrutiny for the manner in ...
For Catholics and other Christians, the contradiction between Zeffirelli’s faith and the themes of his religious films on the one hand and his openly homosexual lifestyle on the other raise perennial questions about the mysterious relationship of art and the artist. Like many celebrities with profe...
And then he finds that Catholics do not go to church primarily to hear lessons or exhortations, nor even primarily to sing praises and say prayers (though they do all these things), but rather to take part in an action; and that they look upon the priest not principally as one who ...
mostly Catholics, walking around with a smear of ash on their foreheads and wondered what it meant. The practice of Ash Wednesday is symbolic within the Christian church to recognize our frailty as humans. It also marks the beginning of the Lent season.This year Ash Wednesday falls on March...
Some Protestants went with the “social gospel” of Walter Rauschenbush, while some Catholics turned to “Liberation Theology.” These attempts turn social work into a religion with no need for Christ. “The Marxist influence on things like liberation theology failed to honor the Church’s ...
In general, the false gospel is to believe that you do not have to obey God and try to live His way (see alsoComments on Galatians). The serpent beguiled Eve to fall for a version of it nearly 6000 years ago (Genesis 3). Of yes, after Jesus came, His name was often attached to...
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how to use a latrine. They didn't have plumbing until 1962. Everything they ate was something they’d grown. They raised their meat, were part of the dairy co-op where they got cheese and ice cream. And though they were devout Catholics, very religious, I learned about nature and sp...
After lunch, as the two of you stand by the shallow area watching Erica slide into the water from a bright orange mushroom, Paula asks if Catholics come to this lake. You shrug. “It doesn’t look like it,” she says. You wonder how she knows. ...
57. Buenos Aires has the best looking people on this planet. 58. Great lovemaking cannot be learned.59. Love can be learned.60. There are no lapsed or recovering Catholics.61. Don't buy cheap shoes.62. Shoe trees. Cedar.63. Jewish women never have great legs.64. Japanese women are ...