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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Catechesis on the Priesthood – Part 2

Well, I have my second Breaking Open the Word session under my belt. I prepared three pages for discussion and it didn’t seem like enough at first, but in the end it turned out to be just right.
Like I said in my last post, a lot of the content came directly from the catechist guidelines, [...]

Catechesis on the Priesthood

This Sunday I will be leading the Breaking Open the Word again for our RCIA participants. The guideline that I have says to focus the discussion on the priesthood, both the ministerial priesthood and the common priesthood. This entails a lot of prep work, for me at least.
So I have read through the Letter to [...]

Archbishop Chaput speaks out on Healthcare Reform

Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput speaks clearly on many things. Here is his  August 26th column from the Denver Catholic Register:

Health care and the common good
Last week a British Catholic journal, in an editorial titled “U.S. bishops must back Obama,” claimed that America’s bishops “have so far concentrated on a specifically Catholic issue—making sure state-funded health [...]

New Words: A Deeper Meaning, but the Same Mass

The USCCB has launched a new website detailing the Third Edition of the Roman Missal since the July 17th vote on the four liturgical actions. It is awaiting final Vatican approval of the English translation of the Latin version that was published in 2002.
One of the changes is to the current “The Lord be with you” and [...]

New Translations for the Mass are Progressing

The USCCB made a news release on July 17th outlining the voting on the four liturgical item actions that have been voted on at the past few assemblies of the bishops. All four passed at the July meeting.
All Four Pending Liturgical Items Pass; Work On The Translation Of The New Roman Missal Continues
WASHINGTON—All four liturgical [...]

The New Archbishops and the Pallia

Detroit’s new archbishop, The Most Reverend Allen H. Vigneron, and all of the other archbishops who were newly appointed to their archdioceses this year are in Rome to receive the Pallium from Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, June 29.  Archbishop Vigneron has a blog that will document the pilgrimage. More information on the Pallium can [...]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

It is divided into four parts. (1) The profession of faith, or what we believe as Catholics. We say the creed at mass; it is part of the rosary. The Catechism explains in great detail what every line of the creed means. (2) The celebration of the Christian mystery explains the mass and the seven [...]