lets be honest catholic priests are not known for their preaching.
how many catholics have complained to me about that homily on sunday.
i myself have been to just about every kind of house of worship in new yorkand ive heard a lot of preaching. inspiring and sleepinducing. thoughtprovoking and alltoopredictable. houserocking and well nonhousero cking.
i ts true that africanamerican preache... [Show More]
bishop gerald kicanas of tuscon arizona gave a talk complaining of uninspired preaching in catholic churches. catholic news service has the story....... [Show More]
a few years ago i got to chat with cardinal walter kasper at graymoor. hes been in charge of the vaticans relations with the jewish people since 2001 so i asked him if the catholicjewish relationship could overcome disagreements over pope pius xiis efforts to save jews from the nazis.
he said that the jewish people were unlikely to ever understand efforts to promote pius for canonization. but he... [Show More]
... will be easier with the cns bible blog launchas the world synod of bishops gets underway at the vatican catholic news service today introduces on these pages the cns bible blog. entries in this new blog will be easy to find just look for the little photo of the bible at left or click on cns bible blog in the categories section on the right side of this page.heres a link to short biographies of... [Show More]
as the world synod of bishops gets underway at the vatican catholic news service today introduces on these pages the cns bible blog. entries in this new blog will be easy to find just look for the little photo of the bible at left or click on cns bible blog in the categories section on the right side of this page.
heres a link to short biographies of our writers for this special series. youll see ... [Show More]
belleville ill. nearly 80 people including almost 30 from china gathered at the national shrine of our lady of the snows in belleville for a weekend of experiencing jesus christ through chinese eyes. many of the chinese participants were chinese priests and nuns participating in the maryknollc oordinated chinese seminary teachers and formators project.
sister hedwig zhang xiu kai a member of ... [Show More]
by happenstance i ran across a blog post somewhere on sen. bidens charitable contributions over the past ten years.a they are very low averaging something like 0.2 of his income which looks like it averaged 230000 or so a year.
sen. obamas have been very low as well up until his star began to rise maybe 3 years ago and his income jumped from the 200000s to the millions.
sen. mccain has given subst... [Show More]
speaking of new media the editor of the catholic key in kansas city mo. jack smith has a new post on the papers blog titled facebook bishops about bishops who either have sites on the popular social network or have fan clubs set up by other facebook members.
he notes that his two local prelates bishop robert w. finn of k.c.st. joe and archbishop joseph f. naumann of kansas city kan. have fan clubs... [Show More]
in conducting round after round of interviews over the past few weeks on financial matters great and small a bit of morbid humor has crept up from time to time most of it having to do with allusions to the 1929 stock market crash and tales ofadespairing people who were wiped out jumping out of windows.
in a phone interviewaoblate father seamus finn a member of the board of the new yorkbased interf... [Show More]
vatican city the world synod of bishops on the bible which starts with mass sunday will involve some 400 people if you count members experts observers and support staff.
and each one of them on several occasions will be praying with the help of images coming from minnesota.
seven vertical slices represent the days of creation in this illustration from the saint johns bible. cns photo from st. joh... [Show More]
argumentum ad tedium..
as a rule i generally stay away from any kind of political or religious postings as truth be known i simply dont care enough about either to be inspired to offer any kind of commentary yet although i have mentioned on several occasions the religious fervour that is sometimes evident when a fanatical advocate speaks of their beliefs whether that belief is of a religious persu... [Show More]
some presynod news Post Source: cnsblog.wordpress.com Posted: Oct 02 2008 13:04:37
vatican city over the next four weeks the vaticans synod hall will be the setting for close to 300 speeches about the bible as the 253 synod fathers cardinals patriarchs bishops and a dozen priests who head religious orders a dozen fraternal delegates representing other christian communities and some of the three dozen observers invited by pope benedict xvi address the world synod of bishops.
arc... [Show More]
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not that running for president for about two years isnt a demanding task. but they are senators after all and the country is facing this dire economic threat. they belong in washington.
thats where theyre both heading today to cast their votes on the bailout package before the senate.
this bill has a better chance of getting passed than the house version.
c ongression... [Show More]
...ont know if catholic politicians in europe are more coherent although i would have some doubts he said.
however he said i am convinced that the church must always be very clear on this point....... [Show More]
how to wade through the blizzard of news stories about the financial crisis in the u.s. and the conflicting analyses.
heres a pretty basic what happened.
the failure of the bailout package in congress literally dropped jaws on wall street and triggered a historic selloff including a terrifying decline of nearly 500 points in mere minutes as the vote took place the closest thing to panic the stock... [Show More]
u.s. archbishop at vatican says democrats becoming party of death
by cindy wooden catholic news service
rome cns the democratic party in the united states risks transforming itself definitively into a party of death said u.s. archbishop raymond l. burke prefect of the vaticans highest court.
an interview with the former archbishop of st. louis was published in the sept. 27 edition of avvenire a ... [Show More]
when his excellency most rev. raymond burke was moved from being archbishop of st. louis to rome as the new prefect of the apostolic segnatura many people asked me if this was an example of promoveatur ut ammoveatur that he was promoted to get him out of the usa before the american election cycle heated up.
i calmly responded no i dont think so.
my less clam interior reaction was closer to ha ha... [Show More]
pope benedict xvi
written by adam shake
the only way to put an end to environmental degradation is for people to live more simply and ethically said pope benedict xvi.
pope benedict xvi has got my back on this one.
all of creation represents an enormous gift from god to humanity so people have a responsibility to protect this treasure and dedicate themselves against an indiscriminate use of th... [Show More]
catholic news service has a story about u.s. archbishop raymond burke who has been quoted as saying the democratic party risk becoming a party of death....... [Show More]
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whatsoever you do Post Source: www.overheardinthesacristy.net Posted: Sep 29 2008 00:43:01
dont forget poor in wall street bailout charities leader says
alexandria va. cns any financial bailout for wall street must include economic relief for the hardships of main street the president of catholic charities usa said in sept. 25 letters to the leadership of the house and senate. ......... [Show More]
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