I love hearing stories like this. To think how much has occurred in her lifetime.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2021/04/at-108-dominican-sister-says-god-just-wants-me-to-hang-around/
“The pimps got to the point with the nuns where they just left them alone,” said a sex-trafficking survivor. “Because nothing you say or do is going to run them away.”
A hidden army of ‘very brave’ nuns fight child trafficking
It's always good to hear stories like this. Where something is...
Catholic priest and theologian Hans Küng, the renowned scholar and prolific writer who had lived with Parkinson's disease, macular degeneration and arthritis since 2013, died April 6 at his home in Tubingen, Germany. He was 93.
Hans Küng, celebrated and controversial Swiss theologian, has died...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Facebook has placed a warning screen over a rambling chat by retired Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez in which he claims coronavirus vaccines contain a satanic microchip.
The Facebook screen warns viewers, “This post repeats information about COVID-19 that independent...
"Denver Newsroom, Jan 13, 2021 / 09:01 pm MT (CNA).- Three North Dakota state legislators introduced a bill this week that would oblige Catholic priests to violate the seal of confession in cases of confirmed or suspected child abuse, on penalty of imprisonment or heavy fines."
North Dakota...
A good thing to reflect on.
"We are all biased in some ways. I am biased toward the state of Texas but against the government of China. I will argue for the merits of coffee, queso, bourbon, and Jesus. But I dislike beets, cheap yard equipment, and fire ants. It is natural to have a bias for...
Start dancing to make up for it.
"Scientists say the “quieter” Earth during protective self-quarantine has reduced the ambient seismic noise. Human activity of all kinds, as we travel and gather and drive around, generates vibrations that distort measurements from finely tuned seismic...
What is your understanding between how the Church sees rights and religious liberty now vs how it saw it prior to Vatican 2?
It's never an overnight change obviously, but there was certainly a change.
Before:
Leo XIII LIBERTAS (1888 AD)
"24. A like judgment must be passed upon what is called...
SECOND WEEK OF LENT
LUKE 15:1-3, 11-32
Friends, at the core of today’s Gospel is a portrait of our God, who is prodigal. The father stands for the God whose very nature is to give, the God who simply is love. And the younger son stands for all of us sinners who tend to misunderstand how to...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli tax policy and a proposed land expropriation law which they called an unprecedented attack on Christians in the Holy Land.
Church leaders shut Jerusalem's Church of the...
So much is said about what the Catholic Church doesn't do and does do with regard to gender and sexuality. There is still much discussion to be had.....but one thing is certain, homosexuals do exist within the walls of the Church that are loyal to the Church. That includes many priest and nuns...
A Pew Research Center study of 1,197 LGBT adults released on June 13, 2013, found that 79% of those questioned rated Catholicism as unfriendly to LGBT people. Only 4% view our Church as friendly. Sadly, I think this has more to do with a false perception of the Church, rather than to what...
I always figured that Halloween had pagan roots, but you are telling me they are Catholic. Huh? How so?
The origin and traditional customs associated with Halloween require no other explanation than that they are examples of the kinds of festivity that served as a means of celebrating the...