When I was a kid (yeah, that's me all right), I followed all the rules of the Catholic Church as assiduously as the nuns taught me. After all, dealing with the rules of the Church was dealing directly with God. I never messed with them. And the most important rules were the ones laid out for the sacraments - especially Holy Communion. The nuns told us that in order to receive Holy Communion, we should be in the state of "grace" - in other words, free from sin. Now, in canon law terms, there is venial sin and mortal sin. Venial sin was not ...
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"And so if you, knowing that abortion is a grave crime against human life – is the killing of an innocent, defenseless human life - and you vote for the candidate who says that he intends to make that more available – that practice of infanticide - you bear a responsibility. That is, you have cooperated in the election of this person into office, there’s no question about it." - Archbishop Raymond L. Burke The following is the transcript of a television interview by Randall Terry of Operation Rescue with Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, regarding the subject of Pro-Choice ...
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I haven't really given this much thought so I am sort of winging this. But I decided I would give this a try. Here goes. I've been a Catholic all my life. I was baptised when I was an infant at St. Ann's Catholic church in Stoughton, Wisconsin. I received four more sacraments including marriage at that same church. So what does my Catholic faith really mean to me? My faith has always been important. I've struggled with depression my whole life and my relationship with Jesus has helped me to keep going. But what about being a Catholic? I will begin with the ...
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I haven't really given this much thought so I am sort of winging this. But I decided I would give this a try. Here goes. I've been a Catholic all my life. I was baptised when I was an infant at St. Ann's Catholic church in Stoughton, Wisconsin. I received four more sacraments including marriage at that same church. So what does my Catholic faith really mean to me? My faith has always been important. I've struggled with depression my whole life and my relationship with Jesus has helped me to keep going. But what about being a Catholic? I will begin with the ...
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One of the key challenges with online worship is how to incorporate the Eucharist. The Eucharist is a physical experience from witnessing the act to receiving bread and wine. But it is also a spiritual experience in that the key action is invisible, caused by God who acts within the liturgy. So would it be possible to have a virtual communion, a virtual sacrament? The Revd Professor Paul S. Fiddes , who is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford and Director of Research, Regent’s Park College, has just written a very interesting short paper called, Sacraments in a Virtual World? With ...
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