RCIA for the First Sunday of Advent – Catholic Doctrine

So Jesus was born in a stable over 2000 years ago in Bethlehem to a poor carpenter and his wife. He entered the world very humbly. But Jesus will return in glory! This is what we celebrate in the readings this week at Mass. You will notice though that throughout every Mass we are looking [...]

RCIA for the First Sunday of Advent – the Readings

Today’s liturgy invites us to become a church of expectancy and hope. We are looking to the future; we are anticipating the coming of the Lord at the end of time.
The Catholic Church has a three year cycle that takes us through most of the Bible in the readings at Mass. Today we begin the [...]

Manhattan Declaration

LifeSiteNews has an article stating that Over 150,000 Sign Manhattan Declaration in Less than a Week.
November 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The unprecedented pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-religious freedom Manhattan Declaration, unveiled in a press conference last Friday, has already been signed by over 150,000 individuals in less than a week, and the numbers are continuing to [...]

A Most Diligent Mother: Angelica

Check out this link for a wonderful article on Mother Angelica by John Zmirak at InsideCatholic.com. It seems like most of the article was compiled from Raymond Arroyo’s biography on Mother, but even still, she is such a wonderful, inspiring person we all need a good dose of Mother once in a while, and if [...]

The Catholic Catechism

The current Catechism of the Catholic Church was published in 1994 and revised in 2000. On the 20th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council in 1985, Pope John Paul II called together an extraordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops. It was at this assembly that the need for a new catechism was discussed, and the [...]

EWTN Audio Series

I have listened to various EWTN audio series over the last few years, most of which are excellent. I was subscribed to EWTN in iTunes and I would get which ever series was made available.
Currently I am listening to The History of the Catholic Church in the U.S. by Fr. Charles Connor. Maryland was the [...]

Anti-Catholicism Op-Ed by Archbishop Dolan

Anti-Catholicism
October 29, 2009
The following article was submitted in a slightly shorter form to the New York Times as an op-ed article. The Times declined to publish it. I thought you might be interested in reading it.
 
FOUL BALL!
By Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan
Archbishop of New York
 
October is the month we relish the highpoint of our national pastime, [...]

Shouldn’t there be more than this?

I was a catechist for today’s mass, this time for the children, but neither showed up today for various reasons. So I sat in the adult session. It went well, the other catechist handled the session well for both the readings and the Feast of All Saints.
Towards the end the RCIA director came in to [...]