Select Page

Month: January 2022

The first gay pope

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | |

The real reasons why Pope Francis is pushing Catholics to become more welcoming and less judgmental of gays and lesbians

Read More

Why I Am Catholic — Willard Capistrant

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | , , , , , , |

I am a Roman Catholic and I am happy to be so. I was born into a Catholic family 100 years ago. I love the Mass and the sacraments. I pray the rosary daily and used to go to daily Mass, but now I watch Mass on TV. I was baptized at St. Mary of the Lake, White Bear Lake, by Father Fahey.  I received my first Communion at St. Mary’s also. I think I was confirmed at St. Augustine in South St. Paul.

Read More

#10472 Open Forum – Jimmy Akin

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | |

Questions Covered:

04:20 – Would it be inappropriate or against God to consider the holy spirit the female portion of God? 
17:50 – Is there any biblical doctrine or dogma about the Immaculate conception that doesn’t rely on typology? 
33:…

Read More

Grotto vandalized at parish in Northern Virginia

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | , |

Removal of the remains of statues destroyed at the grotto of Nativity parish in Burke, Va., Jan. 25, 2022. / Diocese of Arlington

Arlington, Va., Jan 27, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Police are investigating after a grotto at a Catholic parish in Bur…

Read More

Shepherd or judge? A tale of two sacraments

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , , |

When I made my first confession, I clutched an index card with sweaty palms. On one side, I’d copied the act of contrition, dutifully memorized — but what if I tripped up in the heat of the moment? On the reverse was a detailed list of my sins, anxiously scribbled lest I miss one.

Read More

Nonpublic schools doing more with less

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | , , , , , , |

Minnesota has a longstanding policy that certain financial supports are allocated for all K-12 students irrespective of a family’s choice of school, including textbooks, nursing services, transportation and counseling aid. Minnesota Catholic Conference (MCC) and an interfaith coalition of nonpublic school stakeholders (Nonpublic Education Partners) advocate to ensure those nonpublic pupil supports are adequately funded and easily accessible.

Read More

Self-gift comes from the two greatest commandments

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | , , , |

Loving neighbor as gift of self radiates from the practice of the first and greatest commandment — loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. St. Bede, a seventh-century spiritual father and gifted writer, comments how “neither of these two kinds of love is expressed with full maturity without the other, because God cannot be loved apart from our neighbor, nor our neighbor apart from God.”

Read More

Three students baptized as school in Vermillion grows during pandemic

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , |

Second-grader Elenore Staples didn’t feel nervous as she and two of her classmates were baptized during the Jan. 5 school Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Vermillion, even with at least 100 of the school’s students, family members and others present.

Read More

Recent Comments

    Categories