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New ‘Source & Summit’ Missal and sacred music materials seek to elevate the beauty and reverence of Mass …
Over the last decade, the Church has struggled to draw people closer to the celebration of the liturgy — and especially the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Lack of attendance at Mass among younger Catholics, a lack of belief in the Real Presence, and congregations minimized by COVID-19 (and the resulting strictures on public gatherings) have all been contributing factors in this struggle. But Adam Bartlett, CEO and founder of the liturgical publisher and tech company Source & Summit, hopes to provide the resources necessary to help renew and refocus the beauty and simplicity of the liturgy at Catholic parishes, campus ministries and other faith communities in the Church. And, as Bartlett sees it, Source & Summit couldn’t have come at a better time to help the Church meet the chal...
Why don’t popes ever win the Nobel Peace Prize?
HAYS, Kansas – Once again a Nobel Peace Prize was announced Friday, and once again a pope didn’t win. This year’s honor went to human rights’ campaigners in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, in what’s widely been seen as an implicit condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and both his war in Ukraine and his anti-democratic tendencies at home. Russia’s Memorial organization, Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties and Belarus’s Ales Bialiatski will share the prize money of 10 million Swedish krona, roughly $900,000, and will receive the award in a Dec. 9 ceremony in Oslo, Norway. While four U.S. presidents have won (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama), along with several prime ministers and statesmen from other countries, no pope has been honored since the in...
Pope Francis Canonizes Two New Saints — Sts. Artemide Zatti and Giovanni Battista Scalabrini…
The Catholic Church gained two new saints on Sunday, as Pope Francis canonized St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini. The two saints were both born in Italy in the 19th century and ministered to others amid the massive emigration of hundreds of thousands of Italians each year at the turn of the 20th century. Scalabrini is known for founding a missionary order that ministered to immigrants, while Zatti was himself an immigrant, leaving Italy for Argentina with his family in 1897 at the age of 16. In an outdoor Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 9, the crowd chanted the Litany of the Saints as the Pope prepared to solemnly declare the two saints. With his pastoral staff in hand, Pope Francis proclaimed in Latin: “For the honor of the Blessed Trinity, the exaltation of...
Why deli sandwiches taste better than yours…
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These historic Chinese Catholic posters are fascinating…
Chinese Catholic Posters October 7, 2022 by Amy Welborn I started making this part of a “Random” post – but then went down a rabbit hole, so here we are. It gets it own post. I entered the rabbit hole here – via this Propagandopolis – a Twitter feed, but also a website that sells poster reproductions of old-school propogancda of all kinds – a thread on Chinese Catholic images. Which then led me to this website of historic Christian Chinese posters. Phew. If you want to focus on Catholic images, just click here or enter “Catholic” in the search box. Between 1927 and 1951 millions of Christian posters entered the Chinese market. Printed by the thousands onto the cheapest paper, most were used in street preaching and teaching. Others were hung in tearooms and shop windows, or put up with star...
This Sunday, are we the Church of ungrateful lepers?
Jesus does more than heal 10 lepers in the Gospel this Sunday, the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. He teaches us to be grateful for his healing touch in our lives and, according to St. Augustine, explains how to heal division and dissent. Both are lessons every Catholic needs to learn today. Jesus is continuing his resolute journey to Jerusalem when he hears distant voices crying out. Luke tells us 10 lepers “stood at a distance” and shouted, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us.” Jesus healed them from a distance too. The Gospel says, “When he saw them, he said, ‘Go show yourselves to the priest.” They did, and were healed on the way. Leprosy has been all but eradicated today, but the focus on leprosy in Scripture is still relevant, according to Pope Benedict XVI. Leprosy was uncleanness...
Catholic priest in Italy suspended for pro-LGBTQ stance…
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — An Italian priest, well known in the country for his support toward LGBTQ couples, abortion and euthanasia, was suspended by the Catholic Church on Monday (Oct. 3) for “holding positions that are not aligned with Church teaching.” The Rev. Giulio Mignani, 52, a parish priest in a small Southern Italian town, has been barred by his bishop from celebrating Mass and the sacraments after vocally advocating for the welcoming of LGBTQ individuals in the church. “The Church doesn’t condemn homosexuality but homosexual relations. Which is like saying that it’s ok to be hungry, but you can’t eat,” Mignani told Vanity Fair Italy in an article published on Wednesday. “I mean it’s a paradigm that must be changed,” he continued. “Homosexual love is still considered a sin, a mistake...
On the futility of modern bureaucratic states…
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio – articles – email ) | Oct 07, 2022 Leaders in today’s Church often claim that democracy is essential to human dignity and by far the best form of government. Of course, five hundred to a thousand years ago Catholic leaders tended to favor monarchy as the system that best reflects God’s rule. Clearly there is a lot of prejudice involved in these judgments, and perhaps the soundest position on this question is that the best form of government in each time and place is the form that, given the personnel available and the overall situation, can do the most good. The specific form has relatively little to do with it. Politics remains always the art of the possible. Moreover, it troubles me that so many Catholic leaders constantly plump for democracy in the f...
Hot-Button Issues Shine Spotlight on Supreme Court’s Fall Slate…
The Supreme Court’s new term is underway, and the justices’ fidelity to the Constitution and the laws of the United States will be tested once more as they consider cases involving free speech, affirmative action in higher education, voting rights, tribal sovereignty and election law as well as limits on Big Tech. These are all sensitive topics, so here is a snapshot of some of the key cases that will be decided by next summer: Same-Sex Civil Marriage and Free Speech (303 Creative LLC v. Elenis) Lorie Smith, a Christian web designer in Colorado, wants to expand her business to include developing wedding websites. Smith views marriage as between a man and a woman and believes that designing websites for same-sex weddings would violate her religious principles. In summer 2021, a federa...
With the Holy Rosary, the Church lays siege to the world’s strongholds of darkness…
A dear priest sent this to us recently. Feels like the perfect thing for today’s feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. The devil and his minions seek to set up strongholds from which they launch attacks against followers of Christ and those they love and serve. Jesus taught us “the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against” His Church (Mt. 16:18). This is commonly interpreted to mean that the Church passively endures the assaults of the devil with the assurance that he shall not prevail. But that’s not true. What it means is the Church lays siege to these strongholds of darkness set up against Her and the gates protecting them shall come down like the walls of Jericho (Joshua 6). The weapon for mounting the assault is the Rosary. In praying the Rosary, the words of Gabriel to Mar...
Peter Kreeft and Jordan Peterson: How to combat hedonism with personal sacrifice…
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Why do so many men have no real friends? And what can we do to fix this problem?
“Why do so many men have no real friends?” asked a recent essay in the U.K. Times. The essay begins with the experience of 34-year-old Max Dickens, who said, “I didn’t realize I was lonely. . . . But then in 2019 I wanted to propose to my girlfriend and found I had nobody I could ask to be my best man.” Having looked through various coworkers and acquaintances, he realized he had no close friends. He thought, “How did this happen?” Unfortunately, this happens to many people. According to Daniel A. Cox, American men are suffering a friendship recession: “The percentage of men with at least six close friends fell by half since 1990, from 55 percent to 27 percent. The study also found the percentage of men without any close friends jumped from 3 percent to 15 percent, a fivefo...
