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Critiquing Cardinal Mahony
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awelborn
American Enterprise Online: But a Cardinal ought not to regard himself as an ordinary political actor. Mahony ought to have thought about two other consequences of his gesture. First, by implicitly comparing the Church to those at whom the law is really directed, he gives the brazenly cynical traffickers in humanity moral and political cover.…
Baptism – trickling away?
By
awelborn
A USA Today piece on the declining number of baptisms Among Catholics, Sullins says, the rate of baptisms has fallen faster than the rate of decline in births. Baptism isn’t the only source of new members. The church’s U.S. numbers — up from 31.6 million in 1954 to 67.8 million last year — also have…
More prayers
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awelborn
For David Morrison, his family, and the repose of the soul of David’s father, who died on Monday. Continued prayers for Jeremy Hand, son of Traditional Catholic Reflections’ Stephen Hand, as well as the entire family And for the Morris family, second cousins of mine in Texas, who are dealing with the tragedy of a…
From the Office of Readings
By
awelborn
St. Augustine: This is surely what we read in the Proverbs of Solomon: If you sit down to eat at the table of a ruler, observe carefully what is set before you; then stretch out your hand, knowing that you must provide the same kind of meal yourself. What is this ruler’s table if not…
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