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5 days ago · 2683. "The witnesses who have preceded us into the kingdom, [Cf. Heb 12:1 .] especially those whom the Church recognizes as saints, share in the living tradition of prayer by the example of their ...
5 days ago · Some of the methods used to relieve various kinds of pain include: the use of narcotics and other medications; psychiatry; exercise; acupuncture; surgery; meditation; and chiropractics. Pain ...
4 days ago · Fortunately, we have today the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reliably hands on the constant Church teaching about the Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven and hell). We need to know what the Church teaches regarding hell if we are going to keep our head clear and our feet on the right path in this climate of confusion, wishful ...
2 days ago · An Irish martyr died on July 1 at Tyburn Tree in London. He was the last Catholic priest to be hanged, drawn, and quartered there; he was the last victim of the Popish Plot’s anti-Catholic, anti-Jesuit hysteria to be executed, but he was not a Jesuit, nor an English priest. St. Oliver Plunkett was the Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of Ireland.
5 days ago · In Baptism we use your gift of water, which you have made a rich symbol. of the grace you give us in this sacrament. 11. 1218 Since the beginning of the world, water, so humble and wonderful a ...
4 days ago · “The report that the patron did not like them comes from a biased source, i.e. an embittered contemporary who had every reason to tar Caravaggio’s reputation for posterity.” Cerasi “most likely approved the designs of both the original Conversion and its companion [Crucifixion of Saint Peter] and may even have seen them before he died ...
16 hours ago · t. e. John Henry Newman CO (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.
