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Catholic Student’s Response to the HHS Mandate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5APW19MG5EY
Read MoreAd Limina Address: Pope drops the Hammer
https://orthodoxcatholicism.com/2012/03/17/pope-benedict-drops-the-hammer-on-ineffective-catechesis/
A week ago today, Pope Benedict delivered his Ad Limina address to the American bishops assembled in the Vatican. The Pope spoke briefly on several serious issues facing the Church in the United States, but one issue in particular stuck out to me, and it’s not just an issue of the American Church, but also a very serious problem here in Canada, and throughout the western world.
Read MoreThe Dangers of Success
The Dangers of Success
The gossip magazines are full of stories about famous, beautiful and rich people who have been victims of their own success. Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson are perfect examples. In spite of this, the majority of people persist in believing that fame and fortune guarantee happiness.
No one wants to fail. Yet God often allows failures in our lives to draw us closer to Himself. The completely successful person often gives himself the credit. He often becomes puffed up with pride. He may acknowledge God’s supremacy, but may never humble himself before God and may never admit his need of God’s mercy.
Read MoreArchDiocese of Boston Offers Yoga Classes!
It may not be known to most Catholics, but Yoga is incompatable with Catholicism. Yoga seeks to empty yourself, and focus yourself inwards. Authentic Christian Mediation empties yourself and seeks to fill yourself with Christ and the things of God. That is the key difference. When practicing yoga you are opening yourself to the danger of foreign spiritual entities because the Devil seeks to influence those who willingly or unwillingly are practicing pagan religions. Yoga is inheretly connected with the Pagan religion of Buddhism which violates the first commandment, and despite what some may claim the religious aspect cannot be seperated from the spiritual aspect. You can read the full story below about how the Archdiocese of Boston plans to make Yoga classes available at their chancery office.
Read MorePriest removed from Diocesan duties
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/priest-removal-from-ministry-was-tied-to-communion-incident/
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo
.- In an extensive statement provided to CNA, Father Marcel Guarnizo insists that the reasons the Archdiocese of Washington placed him on leave “have everything to do” with his recent decision to withhold communion from Barbara Johnson.
Read MoreWhy Worry About Hell Now?
In 1990, my friend and I drove from Toronto to Florida in my three-year-old Mustang. I asked him, “Do you think I should spray the underside of my car to keep it from rusting?”
“Why worry about that now?” he responded.
Twenty-two years later, I’m still driving that car. It hasn’t rusted out, because I did worry about it, and spent the time and money to rust proof it every fall.
Read MoreIn 1968, Something Terrible Happened in the Church
https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=2782389d-da2c-40ce-8d7f-071d2345291c
Humanae Vitae
The Year of the Peirasmòs — 1968
By Cardinal James Francis Stafford
“Lead us not into temptation” is the sixth petition of the Our Father. Peirasmòs, the Greek word used in this passage for ‘temptation,’ means a trial or test. Disciples petition God to be protected against the supreme test of ungodly powers. The trial is related to Jesus’s cup in Gethsemane, the same cup which his disciples would also taste (Mk 10: 35-45). The dark side of the interior of the cup is an abyss. It reveals the awful consequences of God’s judgment upon sinful humanity. In August 1968, the weight of the evangelical Peirasmòs fell on many priests, including myself.
It was the year of the bad war, of complex innocence that sanctified the shedding of blood. English historian Paul Johnson dubs 1968 as the year of “America’s Suicide Attempt.” It included the Tet offensive in Vietnam with its tsunami-like effects in American life and politics, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee; the tumult in American cities on Palm Sunday weekend; and the June assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Southern California. It was also the year in which Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical letter on transmitting human life, Humanae Vitae (HV). He met immediate, premeditated, and unprecedented opposition from some American theologians and pastors. By any measure, 1968 was a bitter cup.
On the fortieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, I have been asked to reflect on one event of that year, the doctrinal dissent among some priests and theologians in an American archdiocese on the occasion of its publication. It is not an easy or welcome task. But since it may help some followers of Jesus to live what Pope Paul VI called a more “disciplined” life (HV 21), I will explore that event.
Read MoreHHS Mandate
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)—The nation’s Catholic bishops have vowed to close their religious institutions rather than comply with the HHS mandate that they provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. In a column printed on CatholicNewWorld, Francis Cardinal George urged people to purchase a copy of the Archdiocesan directory “as a souvenir,” because in two years the page containing a list of Catholic hospitals and health care institutions “will be blank.”
Read MoreBach choir
Brompton Oratory 16th May 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKjJrdeyC8Y
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