1st Sunday of Lent
(sign/voice)
- St. Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor, Pray For Us (National Catholic Register, 2/21/23)
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"If you read his biography, you see that St. Peter Damian was a great reformer of the 11th-century Church and its clergy. But if you wonder why we rarely hear about him, perhaps it’s because he strikes a nerve that bothers contemporaries. St. Peter Damian’s great book was the Liber Gomorrhianus, in which he excoriated sexual sins, especially homosexual activity, among the clergy....St. Peter Damian is not particularly comfortable for today’s moderns, especially those intent on overthrowing Catholic sexual ethics. Even his book’s title is uncomfortable to those who want to rewrite Scripture to deny Sodom had anything to do with sodomy....
"while the Church is often grateful for the work of her reformers (usually somewhat after the fact), her leaders often don’t like people exposing the skeletons in the closet....
"Attacking clerical sexual abuse and graft, defending the papacy against local churches, defending the Pope’s prerogative to name bishops free of state interference, defending marriage … St. Peter Damian sounds like a rather modern saint, relevant to our times, even if his criticisms hit close to home today. Some might despair that the Church at the beginning of the third millennium looks a lot like it did at the beginning of the second. But she still exists"
- Our present moment calls for "'tough love,' i.e., intervention in which courageous Cardinals and bishops, setting aside customary politeness and deference, frankly tell the pope that this madness must be stopped" (Fr Gerald Murray, JCD, 2/18/23).
- The Mysterious Holy Veil of Manoppello (CatholicExchange, 2/16/23)
- The Holy Face of Manoppello relic (World Over, 7/3/14)
- Prevent Abortion in Lancaster! (PA Pro-Life Federation, 2/15/23)
- Catholic Medical Ethics: Respect for the Sanctity of Life (Catholic Stand, 9/30/21)
- Nigeria’s newest cardinal shares secret behind the highest Mass attendance in the world (Catholic News Agency, 2/14/23)
- re: Letter from Archbishop Pérez to the Saint Hubert High School Community in the Wake of Racial Tension (2/14/23)
- Explainer: The Debt Ceiling and Catholic Social Teaching (CatholicVote org, 2/8/23)
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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