Recently, Minnesotas Roman Catholic bishops have been trying to mobilize their congregations to change the state constitution of Minnesota. These bishops are attempting to use the institutional power of the Catholic Church to impose their religious beliefs upon non-Catholics. If a certain church decides not to confer ...
September 28, 2011 Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Neh 2:1-8 In the month Nisan of the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when the wine was in my charge, I took some and offered it to the king. As I had never before been sad ...
September 24, 2011 Saturday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a I, Zechariah, raised my eyes and looked: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered, "To measure Jerusalem, to see how great ...
The nation's Catholic bishops have urged President Obama to "push the reset button" on his administration's treatment of a federal marriage law, or face an enormous national conflict between church and state "I write with a growing sense of urgency about recent actions taken by your Administration that both ...
September 23, 2011 Memorial of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Priest Reading a Hg 2:1-9 In the second year of King Darius, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: Tell this to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of ...
"The Church dies in Europe," headlines Tygodnik Powszechny on the occasion of Benedict XVI's visit to Germany starting September 22. Statistics published by the German episcopate tell it all: in 2010 over 180,000 Germans left the Church while only 170,000 were baptised. Also, the number of vocations has been ...
September 22, 2011 Thursday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Hg 1:1-8 On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius, The word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, ...
September 21, 2011 Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist Reading 1 Eph 4:1-7, 11-13 Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received , with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one ...
Featured Term (selected at random): CHRISMATORY A three-compartment vessel for each of the three holy oils: chrism, oil of catechumens, and oil of the sick. The vessel is often inscribed with the Latin abbreviation for each holy oil: SC (sacrum chrisma), OC (oleum catechumenorum), and OI (oleum infirmorum). It ...
September 17, 2011 Saturday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading January 1 Tm 6:13-16 Beloved: I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or ...
