The Catholic Message Board

I had intended to communicate that, if the Bishops felt the need to take a stand, then that stand should be to enforce immigration law while not treating those being processed within its bounds inhumanely. Which really doesn't seem to be a problem. Supporting consequences of illegal immigration suc...

This meeting is definitely not a personal one for the King and Queen, but in the interest of ecumenism. The King, who is Supreme Governor of the Church of England will participate in an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel that will focus on the themes of Christian unity and care for creation — ...

What does this have to do with Vatican II, one wonders. UNITATIS REDINTEGRATIO 1. The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council. Christ the Lord founded one Church and one Church only. However, many Christian communions present themselv...

Perhaps the Bishops could address immigration enforcement by heartily endorsing it ... while advocating humane treatment of the deportees. But it comes down to having the attitude of Christ towards people. When Jesus came across the adulterous woman it wasn't to judge her but to recognise her digni...

An amazing fruit of Vatican II ! I've always thought Jesus must be so pained by the division in the Church.

Paragraph 86 is worth absorbing into our comfortable mindset although it is challenging. 86. The Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, building on the teachings of the Church Fathers, forcefully reaffirms the universal destination of earthly goods and the social function of property that derives fr...

There has been a series of videos where an interviewer gets folks to sign a petition demanding illegals be housed wherever and by whomever. Folks sign, agreeing that denying housing is denying a basic human right, requiring extraordinary measures. Then the interviewer asks the folks to sign a contr...

law breakers must be dealt with appropriately. If you are in the country illegally, you need to get out (or be removed). Feel free to try to come back legally. Surely this isn't difficult for you to understand?!? What I am sick of is the argument that the Old Testament is filled with injunctions to...

Although they may not be to your taste, they aren't objectively 'terrible'. Would you agree? Well, no. There are good modern hymns, and then there are banal words with banal music, or hymns that tell us how wonderful we are and how lucky Jesus is to have disciples like us, or are outright heretical...

After to mass shooter event at the Mormon Church in Grand Blanc last Sunday, I notice that law enforcement is asking church goes to have the 'hard conversation' about Church security. I think that the deterrent of armed security around churches, schools and other places of gathering is a worth while...

Also note, GIA publications, the main Catholic music publisher in the English language, decided to delete all the songs by composer Daniel Elder from because he denounced setting a courthouse on fire during the George Floyd riots of 2020. GIA denounced the statement as "racist" and a &quo...

The St. Louis Jesuits were not models of orthodoxy. The idea back in the 70s and 80s was that "folk" music was somehow more authentic, and so that was the idiom that was chosen by most people writing in that era. Of the people I mentioned, none of them are Jesuits or from St Lous, they ar...

Thankyou. We are very blessed!

Today my husband and I became first time grandparents. Johanna and Ashley gave us a big bouncing 9lb 5oz boy. Dominic Francis.

"In the year 325, bishops from across the known world gathered in Nicaea. In affirming the divinity of Jesus Christ, they formulated our creedal statements that he is “true God from true God” and “consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father.” Thus, they articulated the faith that continues to ...

Hmmm, that's a bit relishist.

I don't think it's out of line to say that they questioned his orthodoxy at times. Which the Distorter still can't complain about because they are firmly in "it's okay to deny Church teaching" camp. What? Francis is the only Pope no one can legitimately dissent from? According to their wi...

Years ago my Spiritual Director advised not to give the devil too much attention in such ways. He is full of designs to outwit you. Focus on forgiving the living and yourself.

My view is that Francis was no less important that all the other Popes. Not that he is more special. It’s just the reality that if we fail to embrace the teaching authority of any Pope we fail to be ready for the next Pope who teaches in continuity. There seems to be many people thinking that the n...

When men advocate the rights of conscience, they in no sense mean the rights of the Creator, nor the duty to Him, in thought and deed, of the creature; but the right of thinking, speaking, writing, and acting, according to their judgment or their humour, without any thought of God at all. They do n...