All Entries in the "Basic Training" Category
The Need for Beautiful Churches
Pictured above is the rendering for St. Mary’s church in Fennimore, WI. Go here to see details of the renovation project. by Art Lohsen: It’s happening all over America. Pastors and dioceses are phoning to say that they need their post Vatican II church renovated to be more traditional, more beautiful, more Catholic. Whether it [...]
Help My Kids Still Aren’t Catholic!!
From Fr. Longnecker: An earlier post this week with a similar title evoked the most passionate comments I’ve had on a post for a long time. I suggested that one of the reasons why Catholic kids leave the church is that our catechism and worship styles and preaching for the past fifty years did not [...]
Help! My Children Aren’t Catholic Anymore!
From Fr. Longnecker: I’m in Indianapolis Indiana leading a parish mission this week, and in the meet and greet session afterwards, the most common conversation I have is with middle aged women who say, “Father, what can I do, my children have stopped practicing the faith!” or they tell me how their children have married [...]
On Correcting Deviant Liturgical Customs
From Corpus Christi Watershed: In my last blog, I talked about the phenomenon, quite common today, of those who would delay or oppose the correction of liturgical abuses or imperfections because they feel that people’s feelings will be hurt or that they will be confused by “more change.” While I grant that too much change too [...]
Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Holy Latin Mass vs New Mass
From Fr. Peter Carota: The case for the Latin Mass… Dietrich von Hildebrand, called by Pope Pius XII “the 20th Century Doctor of the Church,” was one of the world’s most eminent Catholic philosophers. Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict) wrote about Dietrich von Hildebrand in the year 2000: “I am firmly convinced that, when at some [...]
Florida Court Sets Atheist Holiday
From the Fillmore Gazette: In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter & Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews & observances of their holy days. The argument was….it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized day(s). The case was brought before a [...]
Cardinal George: “I’m Religious but not spiritual.”
From Catholic Vote: Being religious is not cool. In fact, it’s downright uncool. We learned that from a really profound (but really not) video that went viral a year or so ago, right around the same time some other things became really uncool – like asking people to pay for their own birth control, or [...]
A primer on Church teaching regarding ‘same-sex marriage’
From Ed Peters – Canon Lawyer: No matter which way the US Supreme Court rules in the “gay marriage” cases before it the international debate over the definition of marriage will continue because that debate is, at root, about matters beyond a civil court’s competence, things like the nature of human beings and the fundamental [...]
Pondering the “Smaller but Purer” Vision of the Church
From the Archdiocese of Washington: In the early days of his Pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI was quoted to say that he envisioned the immediate future of the Church to be a smaller but more pure Church. In the video below he reiterates something very similar: In my view, a Church which seeks above all to [...]
The Amazing Gift of Indulgences!!!
From Whiskey Catholic: An indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment due to sins which have already been forgiven. The Church offers to the faithful the opportunity to gain both plenary and partial indulgences (i.e., those which free the person from all or from some of the temporal punishment due to sin), for either themselves [...]
