Forty priests and pastoral ministers from the Diocese of St. Gall, Switzerland, have issued a statement that they will continue to offer communion to the divorced and remarried.
The Diocese of Saskatoon has a new cathedral, and Salt and Light TV has coverage of the dedication ceremony.
“So how can the old and the new come together with the humility and magnanimity that are the antidotes to pride?.” – Fr. Christopher Jamison, OSB
by Jack Rakosky
“The good news is that social networks spread and maintain culture; the bad news is we can no longer rely on Catholic family and ethnic social networks to grow and maintain themselves. The parish today has to build and strengthen social networks of families, friends and small groups.”
… bless, recognize, and approve these words, these clauses, these holy and undefiled enunciations …
“I heard from about a dozen priests by noontime, asking, What the hell did today’s Collect mean?” – Xavier Rindfleisch
Does this rite assume that all births will be to healthy children? Does the birth of a child that is not healthy signify some flaw in our “rebirth one day”?
Peter Maurin was born in the ancient Languedoc region of southern France. One of twenty-three children in his peasant family, he was educated by the Christian Brothers and breathed in the atmosphere of Catholic populism before emigrating to North America in 1909. For twenty years he tramped through America, performing various kinds of manual labor. All the while he was devising an intellectual synthesis in the area of Catholic social philosophy.
Read Chapter 1 of Thomas Rausch, SJ’s new book Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination.
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“Too many bishops seem in the grip of dark suspicions that our culture is moving at breakneck speed toward a demonic end. Pope John XXIII, by contrast, was more optimistic about the signs of the times.” – E.J. Dionne