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Since not everyone reads the comments, especially after the first day a post has appeared, I thought this comment from Richard was worth highlighting: Certainly we do well to read our history; to realize the human constants through every age of the Church.  There never was a Golden Age of the Church.  We shouldn’t forget…

.Caveat: Often when we talk about these kind of issues, folks suggest that "You know, things aren’t going to be magically fixed" if we see any of these elements – chant, Latin, etc – more frequently used. Well, looking back at history, that’s obvious. People are people, messy Church is messy Church. And, I’d say,…

History scares some. Reading books about history after you’ve left school scares them even more. It shouldn’t. If you’re a person who’s trying to understand the Church today in all its rather breathtaking variety, in the midst of changes that never seem to stop and in the face of what is apparently a never-ending missteps…

Today, in the General Audience, Benedict continued his adult ed catechesis on the Church Fathers, moving on to Inrenaeus, the great Bishop of Lyons, who is one of our primary sources for information about early heresies. From AsiaNews: As a writer –said Benedict XVI – he had the twin aim of defending true doctrine from…
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