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Holy Week: A Guide to the Ceremonies

Posted on April 2, 2012

This little guide may be of use to those of you planning on attending the Holy Week ceremonies in the Extraordinary Form (or even the Ordinary Form). Click on the cover above to read in full (PDF). Advertisements

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Fr. Faber on Purgatory

Posted on June 24, 2011

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The Jesuits In America: Life Magazine, October 11th, 1954

Posted on June 9, 2011

Editor’s note: This is an excellent article about Jesuits. It makes me want to sign up myself! Sadly, I lack the youth or the brains.-BB Click here to read (for an index of the priests mentioned see: Good Jesuit, Bad … Continue reading →

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The Title “Catholic” and the Roman Church

Posted on June 1, 2011

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My Sacrifice: A Layman Thinks

Posted on May 27, 2011

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Vatican II and the Crisis of Confusion in American Catholicism

Posted on May 23, 2011

Donald J. Thorman: “It seems to me that if labels are useful, the one I’d have to pin on today’s laity: The Uncertain Catholic. The characteristic note of today’s American Catholic is confusion, indecision; we are treading water, waiting, wondering … Continue reading →

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The Church and State Control

Posted on May 16, 2011

click on cover above to expand and read in full (pdf) The following biography of William Cardinal Conway, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland, is from Florida International University Library:

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Holy Week: A Guide to the Ceremonies

Posted on April 16, 2011

This little guide may be of use to those of you planning on attending the Holy Week ceremonies in the Extraordinary Form (or even the Ordinary Form). Click on the cover above to read in full (PDF).

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The Roots of Liberal Theology

Posted on January 5, 2011

This essay was written by Rev. Thomas Slater, S.J. and published in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, January, 1907. One who has been brought up in the old system of theology, and whose reading has for the most part been confined … Continue reading →

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