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This Sunday, Jesus is revealing the end game of Christianity…
There are 33 years in Jesus’ life and 33 weeks in Ordinary Time in the Church. Soon we will celebrate the Feast of Christ the King, and then the cycle starts over with Advent. But first comes the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, the dramatic end of the liturgical year. The Gospel for the day is dire, insisting that the end really is coming, and we should be ready for it. Here are take...
Nicaraguan Regime Exiles President of Bishops’ Conference…
Nicaraguan regime exiles president of bishops’ conference Skip to content The president of the Nicaraguan Bishops’ Conference has been exiled by the Nicaraguan regime after he criticized a pro-regime mayor during a recent Mass. Subscribe now Bishop Carlos Herrera, OFM, was exiled to Guatemala on Tuesday. Various local outlets confirmed the news after Herrera disappeared following a meeting w...
The confessions of King Charles: Does this shocking letter reveal his hidden rage at the ‘corrupted’ Church of England?
The then Prince of Wales went on to condemn the mega-corporations that fund such experiments, specifically expressing concern over the US giant Monsanto, which produces disease-resistant genetically modified crops. ‘It is money that drives everything and wisdom has been banished in the face of seemingly unstoppable marketing. One is made to feel so powerless when confronted by such vast corporatio...
Synodality Requires Conversion of Heart More Than New Structures, US Bishops Say…
Promoting synodality in the United States depends more on a conversion of heart than on the creation of new structures, the U.S. bishops emphasized at their fall assembly in Baltimore. “It’s about cultural change, not necessarily structural change or not necessarily canonical changes, but first and foremost a change in how we can relate one to another and the Body of Christ,” said Archbishop Willi...
Cardinal Becciu Pushes Back Against Vatican Media Editorial…
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the Vatican cardinal who is appealing his embezzlement conviction last year, has pushed back against recent claims made by the Vatican’s chief editorial director, criticizing his “vaguely moralistic tone” and saying “we are dealing with a criminal trial, not a trial aimed at teaching lessons.” In a commentary published in L’Osservatore Romano and Vatican News Nov. 11,...
Liturgical Conflict Resurfaces in Troubled Indian Syro-Malabar Archdiocese…
KOCHI, India — This month’s delayed priestly ordination of eight deacons of the Ernakulam Archdiocese of the Syro Malabar Church (SMC) has highlighted continuing divisions in the troubled archdiocese, which remains crippled by a bitter liturgical feud that erupted three years ago. The ordination ceremony — which was delayed from Christmas 2023 because of the liturgical dispute — took place at the ...
Baltimore, Dr. Barber, and ‘Character Is Conduct’…
Baltimore, Dr. Barber, and ‘character is conduct’ Skip to content Pillar subscribers can listen to this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Hey everybody, Greetings from Baltimore, where the fall plenary meeting of the U.S. bishops; conference is in full swing. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The bishops have been meeting in committees, and will begin today their public sessions, with a few things of not...
St. Michael Prayer: A Better Translation?
The Romans, as any first-year Latin student can tell you, were in the practice of ending their sentences with verbs. Regina agricolam amat, for example—literally, “The queen the farmer loves.” Unless you are Yoda, however, you would speak this sentence in English this way: “The queen loves the farmer.” (Something tells me this relationship is not going to work out.) In any case, Latin word or...
What happens to God if Marvel chooses to ‘repent’?
If you are into superhero epics — I will confess some interest in Iron Man and Captain America — then you know that the creators (small “c”) of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been struggling for several years now. Many are convinced that they caught a bad case of what that Elon Musk guy calls the “woke mind virus.” Some critics point to a more specific problem — an obsession with a “strong fem...
What Does a Catholic Reading of the Bible Tell Us About the Antichrist?
By Clement Harrold November 8, 2024 We know remarkably little about who the Antichrist will be and what his arrival on the earth will look like. The very word antichrist only appears in four verses of Scripture, all of them in the Johannine epistles: 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, and 2 John 7. The author of these epistles clearly expects his readers to already have some background knowledg...
The Butcher and His Fiend-Like Queen…
Two blood covered hands were raised up in the dim light as Macbeth walked unsteadily from the chambers of Duncan. “This is a sorry sight,” he says to his wife. A few minutes later, after discussion and debate, Lady Macbeth goes into the chamber and then also emerges, having placed the bloody daggers in the hands of King Duncan’s guards. “My hands are of your colour; but I shame, To wear a heart so...
Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Resigns Over Handling of John Smyth Sex Abuse Scandal…
LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it. Pressure on Welby had been building since Thursday, when the archbishop’...
