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Canon Law sets specific steps to follow before a parish can be closed

By Dennis Sadowski • Catholic News Service • Posted February 22, 2013 WASHINGTON (CNS) — Rarely is closing a parish easy. Even though the task has been undertaken countless times in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church as neighborhoods change and faith communities evolve, the process has received wider attention in recent years asContinue reading “Canon Law sets specific steps to follow before a parish can be closed”

Fiducia Supplicans: Blessing Sinners or Blessing Sin?

Transcribed Homily of Father Terrance of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Dec. 27, 2023 Praised be Jesus and Mary. (Now and forever.) Here in the octave of Christmas the Church asks us to reflect on the birth of our Savior, and the gift of redemption and healing that He brings to us. The blessingContinue reading “Fiducia Supplicans: Blessing Sinners or Blessing Sin?”

Benedictine Nuns move into Mater Ecclesiae Monastery

The Latest from Vatican News: Six nuns of the Benedictine Order from the Abbey of Santa Scholastica in Victoria, Argentina, accompanied by their Abbess, are welcomed in the Vatican by the president of the Governorate. They will form a monastic community in the Monastery, which served as Benedict XVI’s home after his resignation and untilContinue reading “Benedictine Nuns move into Mater Ecclesiae Monastery”

Who Wrote Fiducia Supplicans? And Why Does It Matter?

by Toni Vercillo There already is an active schism (though not yet formal) in the Church today, coming from both sides of her Center aisle, and the new document, Fiducia Supplicans, is the current impetus for both radical traditionalists and leftist progressives. Both attempt to ‘explain and interpret’ the document to fit their respective agendas.Continue reading “Who Wrote Fiducia Supplicans? And Why Does It Matter?”

IS AMORIS LAETITIA AN INFALLIBLE DOCUMENT?

Cindy Wooden, Vatican correspondent for Catholic News Service, writes from Rome: Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family is an example of the “ordinary magisterium” — papal teaching — to which Catholics are obliged to give “religious submission of will and intellect,” said an article in the Vatican newspaper. Fr. Salvador Pie-Ninot, a well-known professorContinue reading “IS AMORIS LAETITIA AN INFALLIBLE DOCUMENT?”

In the Fullness of Time

March 25th will come and go and few will mark its import. And yet the most pivotal event in all of human history is celebrated on this day. On March 25 the Catholic Church celebrates that moment in time the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the only-begotten Son of God, descended from heaven toContinue reading “In the Fullness of Time”

POPE FRANCIS HAS DONE IT AGAIN!

Catholic Twitter is all atwit over Pope Francis’ recent inflight press conference he granted on his way back home to Rome from Canada. Some of the Church’s most Brilliant Minds, notably those in the United States, are flooding Catholic media with commentary to remind the Vicar of Christ that he cannot change Church teaching justContinue reading “POPE FRANCIS HAS DONE IT AGAIN!”

When England Returns to Walsingham

Never before had a statue of Our Lady been on the altar during Mass. But in 1982, during his historic pastoral visit to the UK, Pope John Paul II placed the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham on the altar in Wembley after joining the procession when she was brought into the stadium. During hisContinue reading “When England Returns to Walsingham”

WHERE WAS POPE FRANCIS?

There was an historic event that occurred yesterday, the day the Catholic Church commemorates the Feast of Our Mother of Sorrows, the Queen of Peace, that impacted every nation on earth, shaking hell to its very core, and causing a panicked Satan to disperse his minions throughout the whole world to block, or at theContinue reading “WHERE WAS POPE FRANCIS?”