 January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month (from a 1/13/22 Pa Family email) | 2/22, Ash Wednesday |
- Nigerian priest Fr. Isaac Achi killed in Sunday attack (Pillar, 1/15/23)
- Dozens Still in Captivity After Christmas Day Attack in Nigeria, Catholic Priest Says (National Catholic Register, 1/12/23)
- Fire razes Catholic Seminary in Kaduna (Daily Post Nigeria, 1/11/23)
- Chaput: Speaking the Truth is Polarizing, 1/13/23 [highlighting added]
- Biden Says Economic Empowerment Requires Abortion (C-Fam, 1/12/23)
- The Catholic Church must free itself from this 'toxic nightmare' (the late Cardinal Pell, 1/11/23)
- Census Fidei? Methodological Missteps Are Undermining the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality (Public Discourse, 1/8/23)
- "First proposal: Tabernacles returned to the center of every church....
Second proposal: Abolish communion in the hand....
Third proposal: Eliminate Extraordinary Ministers....
Fourth proposal: Reception of Holy Communion should always be kneeling" (A Radical Proposal for the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival, Crisis Magazine, 1/9/23) - "In my Catholic grade school, certain lines were clearly drawn. On a daily basis, little boys would argue about who was better – the Yankees or the Mets....Looking back, the most interesting argument was among those who were also altar boys – as I was, starting in 1969. We argued over who would hold the paten as the priest distributed the Holy Eucharist. Each of us instinctively wanted that honor of protecting Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. The fact that even touching the Eucharist was reserved to clerics, and that all were kneeling to receive the Eucharist, also conveyed the extraordinary specialness of the Eucharist. I believe that the simple resumption of the use of the altar boys’ paten, reserving Eucharistic distribution to clerics and kneeling communicants – as well as adherence to then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s 2004 Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion – would more profoundly impact people,,, than additional documents on Eucharistic coherence." (Catholic Stand, 8/4/2022)
- Some memories of the magnificent Benedict XVI...
- Jesus of Nazareth, Volume 3 (8/7/2014, Amazon)
- Jesus of Nazareth, Volume 2 (5/8/2016, Amazon)
- Jesus of Nazsreth, Volume 1 (4/20/13, Amazon)
- The Spirit of the Liturgy (8/8/2015, Amazon)
- excerpts from "Spe Salvi" (encyclical on Christian Hope)
- excerpts from Deus Caritas Est (encyclical on Christian Love)
- excerpts from Caritas in Veritate (9/6/10, Amazon)
- The New Pagans and the Church (Father Joseph Ratzinger, 1958)
Some devices promoted as "contraceptives" can actually work as "abortifacients"!
They can cause early abortions, interfering with the implantation of a fertilized egg (or later)!
Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)
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