Browsing the February 2018 archive of Blog
Monsignor Yennock on Reconciliation After the Sex Abuse Scandal - Homily from February 18, 2018
Posted by Fr Thomas Ward on 2/20/18
RECONCILIATION AFTER THE SEX ABUSE SCANDAL
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
WHEN OUR LORD, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, ENTRUSTED HIS CHURCH TO FRAIL HUMAN BEINGS, HE WAS BOUND TO HAVE SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS. HIS MOST RECENT DISAPPOINTMENTS, CAME IN THE LENT OF 2002 WHEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ... Read More »
Bishop Arthur Serratelli (Paterson, NJ): A requiem for God
Posted by Bob Herz on 2/17/18
Young people fleeing in panic. Shots ringing out. Police swarming the building. Screams. Tears. Anxious parents huddled together. News media surrounding the carnage. This scene has become all too familiar in America. The recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has once again devastated ... Read More »
Pope Francis: Holy Mass, Blessing and Imposition of the Ashes
Posted by Bob Herz on 2/17/18
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Basilica of Santa SabinaAsh Wednesday, 14 February 2018
The season of Lent is a favourable time to remedy the dissonant chords of our Christian life and to receive the ever new, joyful and hope-filled proclamation of the Lord’s Passover. The Church in ... Read More »
Pope Francis: Holy Mass on the 22nd World Day For Consecrated Life (February 2, 2018)
Posted by Bob Herz on 2/04/18
Forty days after Christmas, we celebrate the Lord who enters the Temple and comes to encounter his people. In the Christian East, this feast is called the “Feast of Encounter”: it is the encounter between God, who became a child to bring newness to our world, and an ... Read More »