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GORAKHPUR, India (Catholic Online) - Then Jesus answered, "Go away, Satan! the Scripture says, Worship the Lord your God and serve only Him!" (Mt 4: 10) We have entered into the holy season of Lent both as a believing community and as followers of Christ Jesus. This holy season is observed earnestly by the Church in view of the redemptive events of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this way, the Lent we observe is Christ centered and is a time of deepening our faith in Hi...

Salutem in Domino (Health and salvation in the Lord)! That traditional Latin greeting encapsulates our hope and prayer every day of our lives, but one that we raise with particular intensity for the next forty days. The Latin Church begins her Lenten journey with the very evocative, dramatic rite of the imposition of ashes, hence, Ash Wednesday. Harking back to our primordial origins, the priest reminds each person, Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris (Remember, man, that t...

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, Feb 17, 2021. Catholics must fast and abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2021 and Good Friday, April 2, 2021. Additionally, they must abstain from meat on all Fridays during Lent. Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It’s a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scriptu...

Philosophy Professor’s Acclaimed Book Re-Released in Expanded Edition Feb 5, 2021 Philosophy professor Dr. John Cuddeback’s acclaimed work, True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness, is now out in a new, expanded edition from Ignatius Press. Featuring new chapters on human friendship as preparation for friendship with God and more, the book provides a practical guide to the most rewarding of human achievements: being a friend. “If life has taught me something in the intervening dec...

U.S. Bishops Celebrate Week in Defense of Man-Woman Marriage 6 Feb 2021 The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has announced the kickoff of National Marriage Week Sunday in “defense of marriage as a lifelong union of one man and one woman.” “Each year, National Marriage Week USA and World Marriage Day provide an opportunity for the Catholic Church to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family,” the USCCB website states. �...

et omnes qui confidunt in eis. Their makers will come to be like them, and so will all who trust in them. - Ps 113:16 QUICUMQUE VULT SALVUS ESSE or Concerning the Idolatry of Vatican II While nations that were once Catholic introduce laws that promote abortion and euthanasia, gender theory and sodomitical “marriages;” while in the United States a legitimately elected President is seen to be usurped in the White House by a corrupt, depraved, and pro-abortion “President” placed in power b...

OPEN LETTER TO CONFUSED PRIESTS: Viganò on Obedience, Resistance, Francis and Vaccines Scripture urges us to be obedient, moderating our obedience with patience and a spirit of penance, but it does not exhort us absolutely to obey orders that are intrinsically evil simply because the one who issues the orders to us holds authority. Reverend and Dear Priest of Christ, I have received your letter, in which you ask me several grave questions about the crisis of authority in the Church, a crisis w...

(230 votes) Scripture urges us to be obedient, moderating our obedience with patience and a spirit of penance, but it does not exhort us absolutely to obey orders that are intrinsically evil simply because the one who issues the orders to us holds authority. _______________ Reverend and Dear Priest of Christ, I have received your letter, in which you ask me several grave questions about the crisis of authority in the Church, a crisis which has been intensifying in recent years, and in particula...

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! In the history of the Church, there has often been a temptation to practice an intimist Christianity, which does not recognize the spiritual importance of public liturgical rites. Often, this tendency claimed the supposed greater purity of a religiousness that did not depend on external ceremonies, which were considered a useless or harmful burden. At the centre of the criticism was not a particular ritual form, or a particular way of celebrating, but ra...