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Archbishop Gomez Reveals the Pseudo-Religions of Our Time : By Paul Kengor - Archbishop José Gomez calls out ideologies like Critical Race Theory as 'pseudo-religions' that seek to replace Christianity.

Answering Anti-Christian Objections : By Anthony Esolen - How to respond to the anti-Christian pseudo-reasons, slogans, “memes,” historical fictions, and creatures of the imagination of our day.

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The English Pope https://general-history.com/the-english-pope/  

The Church in the English speaking world. RC, Roman Catholic (Headed by The Pope, The Church is everything on earth and in the entire universe), C of E Anglican (Headed by the English Monarch, is the State and a church community), NC non-conformist, (Headed by a president and is State an various bits of The Church. The English protestant reformation was started by King Henry VIII in an attempt to replace Peter with Hen ry and that attempt continues to this very day, In some parts of the English speaking world Peter was re placed with b room and paddy cake. Quo Vadis?  

How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization By Professor Thomas E. Woods https://www.stvincentschurch.com/uploads/4/2/5/8/42588219/how_the_catholic_church_built_western_civilisation.pdf

White Martyrs, Take Heart : Many ordinary Catholics do suffer persecution, especially if we are committed to following Jesus for more than an hour on Sunday.

Life Everlasting I believe in the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Which is our resurrection body? Will you look identical to how you did when you died? Or the body you had at your peak of vitality? So if you met someone at one age, you won’t recognise them in heaven because they will look much older – or much younger… We eat; the food is material for our cells to reproduce. Old cells die. Each of us has about 75 trillion cells. Red blood cells live for about four months, while white blood cells live on average more than a year. Skin cells live about two or three weeks. Cells in your bones change about 10% a year. Remembering your maths skills of how to calculate compound interest, your bones, your skeleton changes completely every 7 years. There’s only one or two types of cells that don’t get replaced – even that statement is complicated… It’s a bit like photocopying isn’t it? Cells making a copy of a copy of a copy… Ultimately the copies are of too poor q...

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Salvatore Cordileone, Nancy Pelosi’s Archbishop: “Let me repeat: no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it” - NRL News Today : By Dave Andrusko Kudos and thank yous are extended again to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the leading Catholic official in pro-abortion Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home district, for calling Pelosi to account. Speaker Pelosi (D-Ca.) “stated her support for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of abortion, ‘because it’s an issue of health ...

Bioweapons research is banned by an international treaty – but nobody is checking for violations | BrandeisNOW : Scientists are making dramatic progress with techniques for “gene splicing” – modifying the genetic makeup of organisms.

Mystics of the Church: Blessed Maria Droste & her remarkable devotion to ... : Blessed Maria Droste (Sr. Mary of the Divine Heart) and the extraordinary events surrounding her great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jes...

City of London at War 1939–45

Book Review - Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance : Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance edited by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 264 pp., £74 hardcover 9780231185387, £25 paperback 9780231185394, £25 e-book 9780231546133

Dictionary : VERNACULAR IN LITURGY https://shar.es/aW3cAL Catholic Dictionary Term VERNACULAR IN LITURGY Definition The use of the common spoken language of the people in the Catholic liturgy. It was authorized on principle by the Second Vatican Council, declaring that "since the use of the vernacular, whether in the Mass, the administration of the sacraments, or in other parts of the liturgy, may frequently be of great advantage to the people, a wider use may be made of it" (Constitution on the Liturgy, I, 36). In practice, within ten years of the Council, the vernacular became the norm in the Roman Rite, and the use of Latin the exception. All translations had to be approved by the Holy See. To obviate difficulties about meaning, Rome declared that "a vernacular translation of a sacramental formula . . . must be understood in accordance with the mind of the Church as expressed in the original Latin text" (Instauratio Liturgica, January 25, 1974). (Etym. L...

Language Barriers Stephen P. White THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 Liturgy can be a very divisive and contentious matter in the life of the Church. It is a sad reality that the setting in which we are most perfectly united to each other – literally “in communion” with one another – can become a source of division and disunity. It is one thing when these division arise over aesthetic preferences, or generational divides, or even serious disagreements about the theology of the Eucharist. But in recent decades there’s been another kind of division that has received much less notice. It begins with a story we all know well by now: The Second Vatican Council opened to the promise of a new engagement of the Church with the modern world but was followed promptly by a period of dramatic upheaval in Catholic life. Men abandoned the priesthood; monasteries and (especially) convents emptied; Catholic marriage rates began a long decline from which they have not recovered; Mass attendance fell; sacramen...

Pope Francis: Mass in vernacular helps people understand God, live the faith https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-francis-mass-vernacular-helps-people-understand-god-live-faith. Pope Francis: Mass in vernacular helps people understand God, live the faith Mar 9, 2015 by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service Vatican ROME — Allowing priests to celebrate Mass in the language of the local congregation rather than in Latin allowed the faithful to understand and be encouraged by the word of God, Pope Francis said. "You cannot turn back. We have to always go forward, always forward and who goes back is making a mistake," he told parishioners after commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first time a pope celebrated Mass in the vernacular following the Second Vatican Council. "Let us give thanks to the Lord for what he has done in his church in these 50 years of liturgical reform. It was really a courageous move by the church to get closer to the people of Go...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Book Review: Essays on Catholic Emancipation, 1829... : This really is a book of its time: the publisher/editor assumed that everyone knew exactly who the authors were and why each one was qualifi...

Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching : Catholic social teaching is complex, linked with changing social conditions and deepening understandings of both the work of God in history and ethical principles. Nevertheless, this complexity can be summarized imperfectly in terms of seven key principles of Catholic social teaching.

Bishop McElroy Misses the Point : Bishop McElroy of San Diego fears that the Eucharist will be politically 'weaponized', but his concern demonstrates a lack of pastoral concern for souls.

Sleeping with Cannibals : Our intrepid reporter gets up close and personal with New Guinea natives who say they still eat their fellow tribesmen

The Church Should Not Return to “Normal” : As COVID-19 restrictions loosen, the worst mistake the Church could make would be to return to the pre-lockdown 'normal.'

When Violence Shapes Public Policy : The power invested in institutions of public order has, of late, been routinely subject to violence.

Each garment a sign, a statement, a reminder - Denver Catholic : This is an installment of an occasional series on various aspects of consecrated life during the Year of Consecrated Life, which will continue through Feb. 2, 2016. The theme of the year is 'Wake

Home Behind Home : Our homesickness can only be healed by the Resurrection of Christ.

The “Miracle” of the Resurrection

A World in Crisis Needs Good Friday : The story of Holy Week recounts the historical events surrounding Jesus’ Passion, Death, and Resurrection; but it also pinpoints common failures of humanity while providing the antidote that ultimately saves us. A suffering world needs to dive into the causes of darkness that surround it and investigate deep within itself to ask how we ought …

The Cross and Cancel Culture : By Fr. Dwight Longenecker - In the crucifixion, Jesus is 'cancelled,' but because of His resurrection, He proves to be the ultimate victim-victor.

List of Phrases in Chinese http://mylanguages.org/chinese_alphabet.php If you're trying to learn the Chinese Alphabet which is also called Mandarin, check our courses about pronunciation, and sound of all letters... to help you with your Chinese grammar. There is no Chinese alphabet in the sense we understand it in the West. Chinese characters are not letters (with some exceptions), Chinese characters represent an idea, a concept or an object. While in the west each of the letters of our alphabet represents a sound that generally has no particular meaning. There are over 6500 characters in Chinese. Below is only some of them. Try to concentrate on the lesson and memorize the sounds. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Chinese. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

Darkness Falls: One Year Later : By Eric Sammons - One year ago today, the public celebration of the Holy Mass ceased in this country.

Politics Cannot Save Anyone : By Regis Martin - Politics, we are always to remind ourselves, is not God; to pretend otherwise is an affront to God.

Teaching to Get to Heaven : “If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education.”  St. John Bosco’s understanding of Catholic education seems far from the prevailing view in any western school today. Sadly, this same observation applies equally to the vast majority of schools …

Who was Carlo Acutis? A CNA Explainer : Who was Carlo Acutis? Here’s what you need to know:

Emmy award winning priest on the art of preaching Emmy Award winning producer and presenter Fr Mike Russo talks about his US online and cable TV series, from its beginnings to its runaway success. By Lydia O’Kane What does it take to be a good preacher? That’s what US online and cable TV programme, Sunday to Sunday aims to find out. The Emmy award winning series identifies gifted preachers who pass along their ideas about the preaching ministry. The programme was created and is hosted by Fr Mike Russo, retired professor of Communications Studies at Saint Mary's College of California. He spoke to Vatican Radio about how the series came about and his reaction to winning a coveted Emmy award last year. Listen to the interview with Fr Mike Russo From project to production Fr Russo began working on this TV project well over ten years ago, with the aim of finding “great preachers and how they affect the community.” He also drew inspiration from another television programme called “I...

Pushing the Elderly Out of Sight : Our default practice of tucking the elderly away in state or corporate group homes is a fundamentally bad system.

Proof of a Soul from the Transcendentals and Our Interior Sense of God by Magis Center | Feb 07, 2021 | Proof of a Soul from the Transcendentals and Our Interior Sense of God Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Gmail Around the world there is a consistent awareness of and belief in a deity which stands at the foundation of the world’s religions. Many people seek a connection with a higher or transcendent power that has made itself known to us through the internal spiritual or mystical awareness of and desire for God that each individual has. Throughout history, philosophers, theologians, and psychologists have written extensively on this internal awareness of a higher power which most religions call “God.” They identify eight major indications of this “interior sense of God”: The awareness of and desire for perfect truth The awareness of and desire for perfect love The awareness of and desire for perfect justice/goodness The awareness of and desire for perfect beauty The a...

The Trial novel by Kafka The Trial, German Der Prozess, novel by visionary German-language writer Franz Kafka, originally published posthumously in 1925. One of Kafka’s major works, and perhaps his most pessimistic, this surreal story of a young man who finds himself caught up in the mindless bureaucracy of the law has become synonymous with the anxieties and sense of alienation of the modern age and with an ordinary person’s struggle against an unreasoning and unreasonable authority. It is often considered to be an imaginative anticipation of totalitarianism. Summary The narrative emerges from the book’s opening sentence: “Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” It is K.’s 30th birthday, and a pair of guards have arrived at his boardinghouse to inform him that he is under arrest. He is shortly summoned before the inspector, who is in the bedroom of another tenant. The inspector does not know what the charges ar...

IOANNES PAULUS PP. II EVANGELIUM VITAE To the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women religious lay Faithful and all People of Good Will on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life INTRODUCTION 1. The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as "good news" to the people of every age and culture. At the dawn of salvation, it is the Birth of a Child which is proclaimed as joyful news: "I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord" (Lk 2:10-11). The source of this "great joy" is the Birth of the Saviour; but Christmas also reveals the full meaning of every human birth, and the joy which accompanies the Birth of the Messiah is thus seen to be the foundation and fulfilment of joy at every child born into the world (cf. Jn 16:21). W...