17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Obituary | James Francis Hitchcock of St. Louis, Missouri | Lupton-Millard Chapel
- History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millenium (Amazon customer review of James Hitchcock's book, 3/2/13)
- From Christ's Tomb to Berks County, Pa! (Catholic365, 7/15/25)
- Statistics on annual conceptions released July 9 by the Office for National Statistics showed that in 2022, 29.69% of all conceptions in England and Wales ended in abortion, up from 26.54% a year earlier (OSV News, 7/14/25)
- Catholics and “Sodom and Gomorrah” (Catholic World Report, 7/14/25)
- Subsidiarity, Charity, and the Good Samaritan (Fr Jerry Pokorsky, 7/14/25)
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The Catholic social principle of subsidiarity is central to Catholic thinking but neglected by most of us. The principle holds that the smallest, lowest, or least centralized component of authority should handle the responsibilities and circumstances of everyday living....
Government programs that fund Planned Parenthood violate the Fifth Commandment. The massive national debt steals from future generations and violates the Seventh Commandment....
Except where budgetary questions directly violate the Commandments, the clergy should defer to the laity. - Rite Questions: Should a paten be used during the distribution of Holy Communion? (Adoremus, 7/12/25)
- Absolute Reverence for the Holy Eucharist (Amazon customer review of Redemptionis Sacramentum, 8/3/2009)
- Follow-up to my Statement on Bishop-elect Hennen (Bp Strickland, 7/11/25)
- ERDs & "Evangelization to People with Disabilities" (Catholic Stand, 7/8/25)
[Note: All extended quotes should have been indented.] - Sin Makes You Stupid (Catholic Answers Magazine, 8/31/22)
