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Popes of the Theotokos
Both of the popes featured in this installment are remembered for honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary. Most of our time will be spent on the first, St. Celestine, who is important chiefly for his involvement in the Council of Ephesus, which confirmed the title of Mary as Mother of God.
Popes of the Theotokos
Both of the popes featured in this installment are remembered for honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary. Most of our time will be spent on the first, St. Celestine, who is important chiefly for his involvement in the Council of Ephesus, which confirmed the title of Mary as Mother of God.
The Holiness of Hunger
The Incarnation guarantees that no technology can substitute for sacramental personal encounters at Mass and around parishes, or even for the taste and touch of bread.
Ceuto: the failure of liberal immigration rhetoric
In Europe and in the US today, liberal welfare policies offer incentives for young people who can realize short-term benefits. Those benefits are not for the families they leave behind, not for the impoverished societies they desert, and certainly not for the new communities they exploit. In other words, not for the common good.
“Shrinking” vocations: the McGrath report on seminary reform, pt. 2
No doubt many young men are earnest and sincere in their desire to pursue Holy Orders to serve the Church. But if they are addicted to pornography and need a twelve-step program to get out of this habit so that they can begin to focus on their studies, their prayer, their personal habits, and their pastoral experiences, they need to be excluded from the seminary formation program altogether.
Florida’s upside-down dispute over religious freedom
Uthmeier is objecting to the mandatory requirement of vaccines. On that question the teaching of the Catholic Church is clear, and it supports the attorney general.
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