This essay is about how Napoleon Bonaparte kidnapped two popes in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He wanted to control the Catholic Church and make it follow his rules. He took Pope Pius VI to France, where he died. He also took Pope Pius VII to Savona, after he made himself emperor and took over Rome. This caused a lot of problems for the Church and Europe.
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Reflection on the Readings at Mass for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year A. The Liturgical Sense of the Scriptures Podcast, by Catholic Author and Theologian David L. Gray. READINGS: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7, Romans 11:13-15, 29-32. Matthew 15:21-28
This essay moves past the legend of Our Lady’s Apparition to Saint Dominic to highlight the major organic and pollinated contributions to the Holy Rosary we have today.
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Reflection on the Readings at Mass for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year A. The Liturgical Sense of the Scriptures Podcast, by Catholic Author and Theologian David L. Gray. READINGS: 1 Kings 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a, Romans 9:1-5, and Matthew 19:22-33.
“I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.” – Saint Dominic de Guzman
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Father Hellnaw Sitcom – Season 2 Episode 6 ‘The Altar Girls Are Out of Gas’
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Reflection on the Readings at Mass for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year A. The Liturgical Sense of the Scriptures Podcast, by Catholic Author and Theologian David L. Gray. READINGS: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12, Romans 8:28-30, and Matthew 13:44-52.
A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore, or simply the Baltimore Catechism, was the national Catholic catechism for children in the United States, based on Robert Bellarmine’s 1614 Small Catechism.
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The Ante-Nicene Fathers, subtitled “The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325” and abbreviated as ANF, is a collection of books in 10 volumes (one volume is indexes) containing English translations of the majority of Early Christian writings. The period covers the beginning of Christianity until the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea.
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Heretics is a collection of 20 essays by G. K. Chesterton and published by John Lane in 1905. While many of the chapters center on Edwardian intellectuals and literary figures, Chesterton’s themes are as relevant to the “vague moderns” of the 21st century as they were to those of the 20th. He quotes at length
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