Islam vs Catholic ism. Islam and Catholicism share many similarities. Islam is one of the religions practiced by many around the word, as it is one of the second largest religions in the world. Catholicism is the largest prominent religion, with followers across the globe. According to a report from the Vatican, released in 2008, 19 percent of the worlds population is made up of Islam, while Catholics make up only 17.4 percent of worlds population.. The origin of Islam can be traced back to the six hundred Christian era, and was founded by Prophet Muhammad, in Mecca. According to the historians, Prophet Muhammad received the revelations from angel Jibril (Gabriel). After which he complied the revelations into the holy book Quran. People from Islam religions follow the teachings of the Prophet, and accept Allah as God.. Islam has a few fundamental beliefs that make the founding ground of Islamic faith. They are:. ...

Veronica Mendez, a Sister of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, has been asked to be among a select panel of speakers speaking on the subject Latinos and the Future of Catholicism. Sister Mendez was chos...

Pacific Islands Monograph #24: Repositioning the Missionary: Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam by Vicente Diaz available in Hardcover on Powells.com,In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, Repositioning the Missionary...

This collection includes records of Catholic Church baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials for the years 1645-1969. Indexes were created in several church parishes of Puerto Rico. At the time of the creation of the records in this collection, the Catholic Church in Puerto Rico was divided into several dioceses, including the Diocese of Puerto Rico, which was erected in 1511. The dioceses name was changed in 1924 to the Diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico. In 1960, the diocese was elevated to archdiocese with the name of Archdiocese of San Juan of Puerto Rico. Other dioceses listed in this records collection are the Diocese of Ponce (erected in 1924), the Diocese of Arecibo (erected in 1960), and the Diocese of Caguas (erected in 1964). Since the time period of this collection, two more dioceses have been erected: the Diocese of Mayaguez (erected in 1976) and the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao (erected in 2008). Catholic Church records of Puerto Rico are a reliable source for genealogical ...

I cant help but feel that the great tidal wave of Clergy converts, inspired by Pope John Paul II, and eased in by a crop of lay apostolates geared at making straight the paths into the Church, is dwindling. No new blood. Most of the significant names are people who seem to be within a singular set, a group, a clique. And no younger folks are coming in to light the way. I hear the same stats over and over (more than a thousand here or there), but given the hundreds of thousands of Protestant clergy around the world, thats not much. There are likely as many priests leaving the Church and embracing Protestantism as clergy becoming Catholic. I knew of several in my own ministry days. Far more in proportion than the Protestant Clergy Ive found since I became Catholic ...

mrandall wrote pensfanindc wrote what ive noticed is that catholicism is very introverted its not as welcoming of new members as other christian denominations there are lots of rules and regulations about who can be is saved and how salvation is received there is very little evangelism if any at all in the catholic faith outside of foreign missionaries this pope seems to be very open to making catholicism more open to people and wanting to focus more on spreading the word to everyone it probably would have been better to say that he sounds very un-catholic in his evangelical views no offense was meant thats not always the case ive heard evangelism preached at many masses its just that no one wants to go out and actually do it that kind of lends to my point though just because it is preached doesnt mean that it exists although i

Popes in their secular role ruled portions of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when many of the Papal States were seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the popes holdings were further circumscribed when Rome itself was annexed. Disputes between a series of prisoner popes and Italy were resolved in 1929 by three Lateran Treaties, which established the independent state of Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. In 1984, a concordat between the Holy See and Italy modified certain of the earlier treaty provisions, including the primacy of Roman Catholicism as the Italian state religion. Present concerns of the Holy See include religious freedom, international development, the Middle East, terrorism, the failing health of Pope JOHN PAUL II, interreligious dialogue and reconciliation, and the application of church doctrine in an era of rapid change and globalization. About 1 billion people worldwide profess ...

With its 842 people, Vatican City is the 218th largest country in the world by population. It is the 218th largest country in the world by area with 0 square kilometers. Popes in their secular role ruled portions of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when many of the Papal States were seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the popes holdings were further circumscribed when Rome itself was annexed. Disputes between a series of prisoner popes and Italy were resolved in 1929 by three Lateran Treaties, which established the independent state of Vatican City and granted Roman Catholicism special status in Italy. In 1984, a concordat between the Holy See and Italy modified certain of the earlier treaty provisions, including the primacy of Roman Catholicism as the Italian state religion. Present concerns of the Holy See include religious freedom, threats against minority Christian communities in Africa and the Middle East, sexual ...

That The Vagina Monologues still manages to be controversial in this day and age. I acknowledge that I consciously realize that there are many people in this country who are uncomfortable with frank discussions of sex, not to mention everything else that gets discussed in the show. But to describe such a thing as somehow being inherently anti-Catholic? Especially in the context of a university, especially one as big as Notre Dame? Besides, if The Vagina Monologues is the negative of Catholicism, does that mean these people want us to associate Roman Catholicism with violence against women or something? Or just that the Church is anti-Vagina? Im not just being hyperbolic and demagogic, Im seriously curious here. Its just sort of surreal to me ...

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A while back I started a series of posts on Aramaic in the New Testament-an odd topic that is tough to find much about on the Internet. Im taking the Aramaic words and phrases in the New Testament on a case by case basis, breaking down the details and explaining whats going on.. In this post, I want to examine a word you have probably heard before: Maranatha. This word/phrase only occurs once in the New Testament: in 1 Cor 16:22. In the Greek, it looks like this: μαράνα θά, but this actually has no meaning in Greek itself. It is a transliteration of the Aramaic, marana tha (מָרָנָא תָּה) or marana atha (מָרָנָא אֲתָה). The Greek manuscripts disagree about how to spell this transliteration. Some have maran atha, others maranatha (you can see how these two match the second version of the Aramaic above) and the one Ive chosen which is the text in the Nestle-Aland 27th critical edition.. This phrase even in Aramaic is a little grammatically confusing. It basically ...

Today, Pope Francis arrives in Nairobi, Kenya. After two days in Kenya, he will travel to Uganda, and then to the Central African Republic. The Popes message of care for those on the margins and his consistent focus on poverty is of great significance to Africans, but they also hope he will continue the discussions of marriage and family issues that he recently began in Rome. As the African population surges, and Africans confront greater complexities of family life, deal with ongoing violence, and confront increasing social inequality, many African Catholics are looking to the Catholic Church and to the Pope to provide both spiritual guidance and material aid. But it will be a struggle for the Pope to marshal a church short on vocations and deeply divided on social issues to do both.. The number of Catholics in Africa has gone through a startling increase in recent decades. Since 1980, the number of African Catholics has grown by 238%, in contrast to Europe, where it has grown by only 6%. Some ...

The Mission and Purpose. Our baptism calls us to hear and proclaim the Gospels; to celebrate the sacraments and deepen the life of grace within ourselves and to serve the needs of others in the Church, in the community and throughout the world. In a special way this vocation calls us to promote and define the dignity of each human person. The Peace and Social Justice Commission has a threefold purpose.. 1. To help people understand and act upon the conviction that justice is an essential element of the Gospel that flows from the meaning of the Eucharist.. 2. To help parishioners see that the work of peace and social justice is the work of the whole parish.. 3. To help parishioners see that the actions of peace and social justice must take place locally, nationally, and world wide.. The Commission collaborates with the other parish commissions whenever possible in implementing programs. The parish Commission also collaborates with the Diocesan Peace/Social Justice Commission. Pastoral Council ...

A high-profile Italian Muslim who converted to Catholicism and was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI announced on Monday (March 25) that he will leave the church to protest its soft stance against Islam. Egyptian-born Magdi Cristiano Allam, 61, a prominent

Please find attached an order form for the Middle School Ministry Fund Raiser that will benefit Fr. Moses Orphanage in Kenya. Please turn in your order form and payment to the religious education office by March 7th.. Middle School Ministry 2014 Order Form. ...

Note: The Civil Unions Bill [20/2014] has successfully passed through the Maltese Parliament with 37 votes in favour, 30 absentions and 0 votes against on the 14th April 2014. It gives the same rights and obbligations to same-sex couples as those who are registered in a civil marriage (mutatis mutandis ...

On April 6 through 8, many members of the Cabrini family gathered at the University of Notre Dame for the conference Too Small a World: Catholic Sisters as Global Missionaries. With over 20 Missionary Sisters and lay collaborators in attendance, the spirit of Mother Cabrini, already woven through the theme, was alive throughout the sessions.. The program was held in honor of the centenary of Mother Cabrinis death. The study of missionary sisters embraces Cabrinis boundless ambition as well as the practical and cultural constraints that shaped the outcomes of her and others journeys. An international group of scholars gathered to investigate the transnational work and shifting identities of Catholic sisters as global missionaries, asking how the study of these border-crossing women, organized into multinational structures, can help all historians enter into the global history of Catholicism. The presentations and conversations kept alive the history while also ensuring we focused on the ...

On April 28, 1847, Bishop Richard Whelan in Richmond, Virginia, paid $306 for a Parkersburg lot on Market Street for the purpose of building the town s first Catholic church. Two years later, he wrote in his diocesan report that a neat brick chapel is being erected at this point, which many circumstances indicate as one likely to become prominent on the Ohio River. The local parish consisted of only twelve families. However, the completion of the B&O railroad line from Grafton in 1857 brought an influx of Irish-Catholic immigrant workers to Parkersburg that swelled the church s membership to over 300 people. Five years later, eight Sisters of the Visitation arrived in Parkersburg to establish the Visitation Academy for girls, which would later become DeSales Heights. Following the Civil War and the creation of West Virginia, the new state diocese in Wheeling selected architect Patrick Charles Keely of New York to design a larger, more elaborate church to replace the simple chapel. The ...

On behalf of the Makerere University Community, I send my condolences to the Catholic Church in Uganda upon the sudden demise of the Archbishop His Grace Dr.

GLENDALE-The Armenian community of Glendale was granted two significant Armenian spiritual institutions recently-the first being the newly completed St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Church on Mountain Street.

About 1,300 worshippers jammed Mundeleins Santa Maria del Popolo Catholic Church for a Spanish-language drama to mark Good Friday. Common throughout Mexico, the Via Crucis -- or Way of the Cross -- depicted the final hours of Jesus life.

Abstract: Liberation Theology is a twentieth-century theological movement that intersects with grassroots struggles for social justice, especially throughout Latin America. Born out of the Roman Catholic Church, and especially the changes formed at the great church gathering known as Vatican II (in Rome in the 1960s), Liberation Theology includes an emphasis on the churchs role as one that relates believers to the modern world (Gutierrez 1988). Advocates of Liberation Theology interpreted this to mean that the church is to be an advocate for believers, especially poor believers. Liberation Theology took the preferential option for the poor as a rallying cry and, through Christian-based communities (regular gatherings for study and prayer), worked for social and economic justice for the poorest peoples. Connecting to other global movements such as feminism and environmentalism, Liberation Theology has continued to expand, despite resistance from inside and outside the Catholic and Protestant ...

The U.S. government estimates the total population at 8.7 million (July 2015 estimate). The principal religious groups are Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants. The Roman Catholic Church states it has approximately 6.85 million adherents, or 79 percent of the population. A 2014 survey by a local marketing research and public opinion company, however, reported that 45 percent of respondents self-identified as evangelical Protestants, 41 percent as Roman Catholics, and 11 percent as unaffiliated with any religious organization. Other prominent religious groups with their stated number of adherents include the Seventh-day Adventist Church (230,000); The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons, 165,000 adherents); Jehovah s Witnesses (22,000); and a variety of Anabaptist/Mennonite groups (18,000), Episcopalians, and Lutherans. The most prominent evangelical churches include the Church of God, the Assemblies of God, the Abundant Life Church, the Living Love Church, the ...

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On April 26, 1933: Hitler meets with Catholic Bishop Wilhelm Berning of Osnabrück and Monsignor Steinmann, prelates Hitler claims that he is only doing to the Jews what the Catholic Church has already done to them for 1600 years. He reminds the prelates that the Church has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos. Hitler suggests that his anti-Jewish actions are doing Christianity a great service. representing the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. ...

In 2012, 47% of people in Russia identified as Christians.[4] Most Christians in Russia are members of the Russian Orthodox Church. The number of Russian Orthodox members have been decreasing in recent years. Most Orthodox Christians live in Western Russia.[5] Overall, there are about 61 million Russian Orthodox Christians in Russia, making up 43% of the population.[4] There are around 400,000 Old Believers in Russia. They make up less than 1% of the population. Before the Russian Revolution, Old Believers made up 10% of the population.[6] There has been a rise in Russian converts to Catholicism in recent years.[7] Catholics make up less than 1% of the population, and number at 140,000 citizens. Most live in Western Russia. 47% of Catholics in Russia are ethnic Russians, 16% are Germans, 9% are Armenians, 4% are Belarusians, and the rest are Koreans, Poles, Lithuanians, and others.[8] Lutherans in Russia have typically been ethnic Finns or Germans. In recent years, some Russians have been ...

So the newspaper of record, The Irish Times, uses the Cults propaganda to influence individuals attitudes and actions and to cultivate public support for their idea of a benevolent Cult, the Irish Catholic Church. Just so we know, Mr. Hitler and Goebbels did not invent Propaganda. The word itself was coined by the Roman Catholic Church to describe its efforts to discredit Protestant Teachings in the 1600s. Please let us remember, that The Irish Catholic Cult were notable for making propaganda a key element of their total control, over all levers of power, particularly the Irish Press, by appointing all its editors. The Irish Catholic Cult were able to penetrate virtually every form of Irish Media, from newspapers, film, radio, posters, books, and rallies to museum exhibits and school textbooks, with The Irish Catholic Cult propaganda. Whether or not propaganda was truthful or tasteful was irrelevant to the Cult. Yes Mr. Ferriter, we did hear from both The Bon Secours Sisters and The Irish ...

On the Catholic side, the Declaration of the Second Vatican Council on the relationship of the church to the non-Christian religions, Nostra aetate, can be considered the beginning of a systematic dialogue with the Jews. Still today it is considered the foundation document and the Magna Charta of the dialogue of the Roman Catholic Church with Judaism, so my tour dhorizon of the Jewish-Catholic conversation must begin there.It did not develop in a vacuum, since on the Christian side there had already been approaches to Judaism both within and outside the Catholic Church before the Council. But after the unprecedented crime of the Shoah above all, an effort was made in the post-War period towards a theologically reflected re-definition of the relationship with Judaism. Following the mass murder of the European Jews planned and executed by the National Socialists with industrial perfection, a profound examination of conscience was initiated about how such a barbaric scenario was possible in ...

The Vatican on Friday issued the most authoritative and sweeping document on bioethical issues in more than 20 years, taking into account recent developments in biomedical technology and reinforcing the Roman Catholic churchs opposition to in vitro fertilization, human cloning, genetic testing on embryos before implantation and embryonic stem cell research.. The Vatican document says that these techniques violate the principles that every human life - even an embryo - is sacred and that children should be conceived only through intercourse by a married couple.. The 32-page instruction, titled Dignitas Personae, or The Dignity of the Person, was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vaticans doctrinal watchdog, and carries the approval and the authority of Pope Benedict XVI. It was developed to provide moral responses to bioethical questions that have been raised in the 21 years since the congregation last issued instructions.. The document also bans the ...

It is sometimes said that when science and theology conflict, this is because we are dealing with bad science or bad theology or both bad science and bad theology. This may be in fact true of a number of apparent conflicts between science and theology.. But even if this is in fact true, one shouldnt elevate such an observation into a necessarily true principle. Here is one reason to think this. We learn from history that good science is often wrong. (Can one say the same about theology? That may depend on whether one restricts to the theology of a true religion, and on how speculative one allows theology to be and still count as good.) Unless science and theology have completely logically disjoint subject matter, so that no proposition of science can possibly entail or be incompatible with a proposition of theology, it seems quite possible to have a case where a proposition p is such that (a) p is good science, (b) p is false, and (c) not-p is good theology.. Objection 1: Science and theology ...

Now that the Department of Health and Human Services is prepared to insure fetuses as if they were persons from the moment of conception, it is obviously time for the Social Security Administration to change all our ages and use our conception dates as the starting point for eligibility for benefits and for the IRS to let new parents take a tax deduction in the year of the pregnancy, not just the year of birth. The drinking age, drivers license eligibility and other age-sensitive restrictions should also be moved appropriately.. More seriously, the question of when personhood begins is a continuing unknown, with highly variable views held by the worlds religions, scientists, lawyers, etc. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which opposes abortion at all stages of pregnancy, has no formal position on when the fetus becomes a person. While cautioning that the fetus should be treated as a person in the absence of definitive proof, it stated in its 1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion: This ...

An anti-Ebola volunteer of the Catholic Church, Dr. Tim Flanigan has expressed strong optimism that Liberia will soon overcome Ebola.Professor Flannigan, a specialist on Infectious Disease at the prestigious Brown University in Rhode Island, USA, who has worked in Liberia as a volunteer with the Catholic Churchs Ebola Response Team, made the assertion recently in Monrovia.He stated that he was personally touched by the commitment of the people of Liberia and their local and international partners in combating the Ebola virus disease (EVD), adding that the virus will soon be history.Liberia went through the war, which was worst than Ebola. So I think you will defeat this disease. Liberians are poor and have few health workers but the country is very rich in faith, prayer, and desire to succeed against the outbreak, he observed.Dr. Flanigan, who is also an ordained Deacon in the Church, arrived in Monrovia early September at the invitation of the Catholic Church. Since his arrival, he has been ...

Uruguays Population and the Church. In terms of religion, the decriminalization of abortion highlights Uruguays progressive path in Latin Americas bastion of Roman Catholicism. Naturally, many religious institutions were outraged by the law and have even challenged the legality of legislation decriminalizing abortion. Immediately following the legislations passage, Bishop Heriberto Bodeant publically condemned any Catholics engaging in the act. According to the bishops website, Automatic excommunication is for those who collaborate in the execution of an abortion in a direct way, and direct means committing that specific act.[5] The impact of the Churchs remarks on Uruguays population is yet to be determined. Despite Uruguays historic Catholic dominance, its Protestant, Jewish, and atheist populations have increased in recent years. Unsurprisingly, religious institutions have attributed this decline to Montevideos failure to successfully promote religious awareness, attitudes and ...

The country is an archipelago of more than 300 islands with a total area of 7,050 square miles and a population of 827,000. Most of the population is concentrated on the main island of Viti Levu. Estimates of religious affiliation were as follows: 52 percent of the population is Christian, 30 percent Hindu, and 7 percent Muslim. The largest Christian denomination is the Methodist Church, which claims approximately 218,000 members. Other Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church also have significant followings. The Methodist Church is supported by the majority of the countrys chiefs and remains influential in the ethnic Fijian community, particularly in rural areas. There is also a small number of active nondenominational Christian groups.. Religious affiliation runs largely along ethnic lines. Most indigenous Fijians, who constitute 57 percent of the population, are Christian. Most Indo-Fijians, who account for 37 percent of the population, practice Hinduism, while 20 percent ...

This is a topic that other Christians will argue against me. But it all fairness to you, there is no eternal torture mentioned in the Bible anywhere. That is entirely an invention of Roman Catholicism. The Catholics got most of their ideas from Roman gods and traditions, not from the Bible.. For example, the idea of Hell comes from a pagan goddess named Hel (one L), and she was the goddess of the underworld etc. The Greek word which many will recognize as meaning hell, is hades, but if you research the word, you will discover that it actually means the grave. The fact is, the wicked, those who disobey God and reject Him, even to His face when Jesus returns, will be destroyed in a lake of fire, but it will not be eternal torture, it is called the second death. So if dying and staying dead doesnt bother you, than fear not, that is exactly what is coming to those who reject God. Personally, you seem like a nice guy, even in spite of our differences and I do not wish a fiery ...

By Mary E. Hunt. Originally published by the Womens Ordination Conference, April 24, 2018.. Imagine my surprise when I read about the women who were shooed out of the sumo wrestling ring in Japan when they tried to save a mans life. What sounds like news of the weird is a serious story about traditions and how harmful they can be. It made me think of Roman Catholicisms ban on women priests and how deadly it is.. A true story from the New York Times (4.4.18, p. A4): On April 4, 2018 at an exhibition match of sumo wrestling, Ryozo Tatami, the mayor of Maizuru…was giving a speech when he had a brain hemorrhage and collapsed. First responders including women jumped into the ring to deliver CPR. One of the women was variously reported as a nurse or a doctor. A sumo judge was heard on the loudspeaker imploring the women to leave the ring. When the referee told them to leave, the women backed off, causing confusion and scuffling around the patient. In the video, it is quite apparent that one ...

Hits: 819. 5-BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF POET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ON 23RD APRIL, 2016 MEHER BABAs MADE FOLLOWING COMMENTS William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet. He was born in Stratford and baptized there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, 1564. Shakespeare. At the age of 18, he married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. Shakespeares family was Catholics, at a time when practicing Catholicism in England was against the law. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets and two long narrative poems between 1589 and 1613. Famous plays of Shakespeare are: The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He was great genius but had no spiritual inclination and therefore it was not reflected in his works. Meher Baba had a deep ...

In Bellevue, 4.9% of the population are veterans of the United States military. Bellevue is considered very friendly to members of the LGBTQ+ community. The total population of Bellevue consists of 144,444 people. The current population of Bellevue is growing at a rate of 0.015%. Bellevue has a population density of 1,666 people per square mile. In Bellevue, 66.3% participate in the labor force, 4.5% are widows, 6.4% do not have health insurance, and 7.4% live in poverty. In terms of Christian denominations, out of the total population of Bellevue 15.5% practice Catholicism, 7.4% practice another Christian faith, and 3.1% worship the Church of Jesus Christ. In Bellevue, 61.3% are nonbelievers. In terms of non-Christian denominations in Bellevue, out of the total population 0.8% practice Judaism, 1.5% practice an Eastern religion, and 0.7% practice Islam. In terms of crime, Bellevue has 1.0 violent crimes per 1000 residents and 28.9 property crimes per 1000 residents. Out of the total city ...

Concordat Watch - Dominican Republic | Topics. This Caribbean nation is still under the concordat of a long-gone dictator. Furthermore, in 2009 the Vatican managed to get Church doctrine enshrined in the Dominican constitution, a move which it had tried and failed to accomplish elsewhere., Concordats - treaties between the Holy See (the Vatican, headed by the pope) and more than three dozen countries which grant privileges to the Roman Catholic Church, extend papal influence, weaken church state separation, introduce Canon Law, lead to religious discrimination and can threaten human rights of Catholics and non-Catholics alike. .Translation (automatic), German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Croatian , Serbian, Slovenian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian Advanced search...

In Bridgeport, 3.7% of the population are veterans of the United States armed forces. Bridgeport is considered neutral to members of the LGBTQ+ community. In terms of education, 6.6% have a graduate degree, 32.4% have a high-school diploma, and 18.1% have a college degree. In terms of Christian denominations, out of the total population of Bridgeport 45.7% practice Catholicism, 3.2% practice another Chrisitan faith, and 3.1% are Presbyterians. In terms of non-Christian denominations in Bridgeport, out of the total population 2.0% practice Judaism, 0.3% practice an Eastern religion, and 0.6% practice Islam. In Bridgeport, 36.0% are nonbelievers. Out of the total city population, 48.9% are male and 51.1% are female. In Bridgeport, 22.4% of the population are over the age of 55, 8.7% are over the age of 60, 4.3% are over the age of 70, and 3.0% are over the age of 80. The median age of Bridgeport is 34 years old. In Bridgeport, 5.5% are widowed, 16.2% do not have health insurance, 12.8% have some ...

The only necessity is logical necessity!. In particular, I now hold that there could exist conditions which make one of my favorite bible passages an accurate description of the conception of Jesus which happened roughly two thousand years ago in a town of Galilee called Nazareth when a Cyrinus was governor of Syria. This is the Annunciation according to Luke. (Lk. 1:26-36) .. I cannot clearly articulate what I previously thought about the truth of religious claims. I thought that most of them were fictions. I did not explicitly hold that core claims of my Catholicism, such as the Annunciation, were fictions. I admit, though, that I had a dread that they could not be more than fictions.. Why did I think that they could not be true? I thought that if any religious claims were true, an account of their truth conditions would be given by showing how what formed their truth conditions was built up from what formed truth conditions for claims about physical nature. I cannot think of how it is ...

Astrology Explored) March 17 is the ancient feast day of Saint Patrick, the patron Catholic saint of Ireland, the day when most everyone claims to be Irish, at least to lay dibs on the beer. But for those of us whose lineage runs from the Emerald Isle, it is a day that reminds us of the indomitable spirit born of a people, the ownership of whose land was continuously contested.. Ireland was a land whose was overrun by a variety of invading peoples, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norse, the Romans, and the Britons. Multiple religions existed side by side the moon based beliefs presided over by the Druids, the caste of priest and priestesses that practiced the ancient rituals. Eventually, most of the invaders were absorbed by marriage into the traditional ways of the Celts. Catholicism broke this chain of invasion and absorption, with Saint Patricks claim to fame not driving snakes out of Ireland, but by driving the Druids, represented by the serpent, underground. So deeply were the Druids driven ...

Historically, the various confessions in Germany have contributed to primary and secondary education and do so still. Education in Germany still embodies the legacy of the Prussian education system introduced by Frederick the Great in 1763. The curricula of the various states of Germany since then have included not only basic technical skills but also music (singing) and religious (Christian) education in close cooperation with the churches. This has led to the churches being assigned a specific status as legal entity of public law, Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts in Germany, which is a legacy of a 1919 Weimar compromise still in force today.[17] Most of the federal states of Germany, which has a long history of almost even division between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, have an arrangement whereby the religious bodies oversee the training of mainline Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish religious education teachers. In one of the federal states this includes Orthodox Christian ...

Historically, the various confessions in Germany have contributed to primary and secondary education and do so still. Education in Germany still embodies the legacy of the Prussian education system introduced by Frederick the Great in 1763. The curricula of the various states of Germany since then have included not only basic technical skills but also music (singing) and religious (Christian) education in close cooperation with the churches. This has led to the churches being assigned a specific status as legal entity of public law, Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts in Germany, which is a legacy of a 1919 Weimar compromise still in force today.[16] Most of the federal states of Germany, which has a long history of almost even division between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, have an arrangement whereby the religious bodies oversee the training of mainline Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish religious education teachers. In one of the federal states this includes Orthodox Christian ...

The next Pope needs to be much more than a holy man, teacher and shepherd to the estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics worldwide and a better manager of the Vaticans internal bureaucracy than his predecessor, several New Hampshire Catholics said.

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During the American occupation of 1915-1934, a wave of Protestant conversions spread through Haiti. Possibly as a result, Vodou congregations began to burn their drums, flags, instruments, and charmed objects, in order to reject superstition. The Catholic Church in Haiti saw these rejetes as the opening for a proper Catholic conversion wave, a campagne anti-superstitieuse: the Anti-Superstition Campaign. (The common voodoo practice of using the Eucharistic Host as a magic item contributed to the Churchs fervor.) Beginning in 1939, priests and lay brothers moved throughout the countryside where rejete movements had begun, converting peasants and local elites alike to orthodox Catholicism and urging the destruction and dissolution of Vodou temples, or houmforts. Medical missions provided drugs and treatment to the sick, showing up failed or empty houngan rituals. Priests carried the cross ahead of crowds shouting Down with the Loa! to bonfires of ritual objects in the houmforts peristyle. ...

People need to realize that Priests CANNOT ever be an intermediator between you and God (or Jesus). Its not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, Jesus never spoke of the arrangement, plus the Bible says God does not hear the prayers of the wicked), and how many wicked priests are there? Plus there is no purgatory. There is no power in Mary, a Jewish woman who died 700 years before the Catholic Church was formed by Constantine. Confession booth sins are NOT forgiven as you didnt ask God for forgiveness - you ask a unauthorized stand-in for God (a priest). Ignorance is NO excuse on judgement day. You have had plenty of time to verify what I have mentioned above by reading the Bible. If you check your mind in at the door of the Catholic Church and believe everything it teaches, never seeking God thru the Bible, you are guilty of NOT being a follower of God. You are however a follower of a false religion God does not honor and will punish. I mean really: limbo, purgatory, celibacy, Power in Mary, ...

Since the High Middle Ages, most of Europe has been dominated by Christianity. There are three major denominations: Roman Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox, with Protestantism restricted mostly to Northern Europe, and Orthodoxy to East and South Slavic regions, Romania, Moldova, Greece, and Georgia. The Armenian Apostolic Church, part of the Oriental Church, is also in Europe - another branch of Christianity (worlds oldest National Church). Catholicism, while typically centered in Western Europe, also has a very significant following in Central Europe (especially among the Germanic, Western Slavic and Hungarian peoples/regions) as well as in Ireland (with some in Great Britain). Christianity has been the dominant religion shaping European culture for at least the last 1700 years.[60][61][62][63][64] Modern philosophical thought has very much been influenced by Christian philosophers such as St Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus. And throughout most of its history, Europe has been nearly ...

Contains records from the following churches: Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Sadsbury Township; Little Britain Monthly Meeting, Little Britain Township; St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster; Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, East Cocalico Township; Emanuel Lutheran Church, Elizabeth Township, also called Old Warwick Lutheran Church; Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster; Moravian Church, Lancaster; First Reformed Church, Lancaster; Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland; St. Marys Roman Catholic Church, Lancaster; Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim; Muddy Creek Reformed Church, East Cocalico Township; Bangor Protestant Episcopal Church, Caenarfon [sic] Township; Bergstrasse Lutheran Church, Ephrata Township; Records of Rev. John Waldschmidt; Records of Rev. John Cuthbertson; Records of Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing; Christ Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown; St. Michaels Lutheran Church, Strasburg; Swamp Reformed Church, West Cocalico Township; Zion Reformed Church, Elizabeth Township, also known ...

The Eastern Orthodox Church is one of two branches of the ancient Catholic Church. Prior to 1054 AD, the Catholic Church was formally united, while serious differences simmered beneath the surface. In 1054, the churches in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa finally broke fellowship with Rome, not wanting to cede ecclesiastical supremacy to the Roman bishop or to accept various dogmas popular in the West. Henceforth, the main centers of Orthodoxy would be Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch and Constantinople, with Constantinople serving as first among equals. Later, a fifth patriarchate arose in Moscow. Despite notable differences among themselves, the autonomous Orthodox churches have ever since remained loosely bound together by a common faith, liturgy, and system of government. Like Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians believe that theirs is the one true apostolic Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.. An interesting historical episode illuminates the sharp differences between Orthodox ...

The Roman Rite, when respected and used properly, is a rock-solid, enduring structure within and upon which a firm and lofty Catholic identity can be raised heavenward.. Hard-identity Catholicism.. The 1983 Code of Canon Law, can. 249, requires - it doesnt suggest or recommend or propose - that seminarians be very well trained in Latin: lingua latina bene calleant. NB: Not just calleant, says can. 249, but bene calleant. Calleo is to be practised, to be wise by experience, to be skillful, versed in or to know by experience or practice, to know, have the knowledge of, understand. We get the word callused from this verb. We develop calluses when we do something repeatedly. So, bene calleant is let them be very well versed. Review also Sacrosanctum Concilium 36 and Optatam totius 13, just to point to documents of Vatican II.. (HEY LIBS! Vatican II, right? But you reject Latin you HYPOCRITES because YOU HATE VATICAN II!). C.S. Lewis in 1933 argued that the rejection of Latin and Greek as ...

Natural law has long been a cornerstone of Christian political thought, providing moral norms that ground law in a shareable account of human goods and obligations. Despite this history, twentieth and twenty-first-century evangelicals have proved quite reticent to embrace natural law, casting it as a relic of scholastic Roman Catholicism that underestimates the import of scripture and the division between Christians and non-Christians. As recent critics have noted, this reluctance has posed significant problems for the coherence and completeness of evangelical political reflections. Responding to evangelically-minded thinkers increasing calls for a re-engagement with natural law, this volume explores the problems and prospects attending evangelical rapprochement with natural law. Many of the chapters are optimistic about an evangelical re-appropriation of natural law, but note ways in which evangelical commitments might lend distinctive shape to this engagement.. ...

It is widely believed that Muslims do not abandon Islam. This widespread opinion is, however, only partly true. It is true that it is difficult to convert Muslims, but it is not so much the difficulty of converting Muslims as it is the scarcity of Christian missions among them that leads us to believe they are hard to convert. Still, if many think that Muslims are difficult to convert to Protestantism or Roman Catholicism, even more would think it impossible to convert Muslims to the Orthodox Faith. This later opinion has its basis in a general lack of knowledge about the missionary labors of the Orthodox throughout the ages and the world in places as diverse and far apart as Africa, India, Siberia, China, Japan, and Alaska. Indeed, the history of Orthodox missions among the Muslims is a particularly important and fascinating part of the overall mission of the Orthodox Church. As it is impossible to fully cover the history of Orthodox missions among the Muslims here I have only attempted to ...

A forum discussing organized religious groups such as Mormonism, Jehovahs Witnesses, Islam, Catholicism, Judaism, World Wide Church of God, Bahai, Scientology, etc... that deny the biblical Jesus alone is the complete atonement and only Savior for mankind, add works to grace, and extra-Biblical rituals to worship, thus negating true salvation.

In other times and eras God was viewed as a female, such that, were such cultural biases reversed, the worship of God as a giant man in the sky, as found in Islam and Judaism, would also be considered idolatry. The Trinity of Catholicism is considered idolatrous, as are the many Hindus Gods. Under this law, the precepts of Buddhism would be illegal, since Buddhism is designed to recognize and produce the God within, and to thus treat people and other sentient beings with dignity and respect, as Godly entities. Pantheism, of course, or the recognition of the Divine in all creation, would also be illegal. People who erect beautiful graven images, even without intention to worship them, will also be subject to punishment. It is also forbidden to buy products from idol-worshippers, such as incense or health food from Hindus, if they are used in idol-worship. Bending down in front of an idol or picking up a brick and saying, This is my God, makes a person liable for (capital) ...

In 1610, Chief Membertou concluded their first alliance with Europeans, a concordat with the French Jesuits that affirmed the right of Mikmaq to choose Catholicism, Mikmaq tradition, or both. Henri Membertou (died September 18, 1611) was the sakmow (Grand Chief) of the Mikmaq tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally sakmow of the Kespukwitk district, he was appointed as Grand Chief by the sakmowk of the other six districts. His exact date of birth is not known. However, Membertou claimed to be a grown man when he first met Jacques Cartier.[3] Membertou was the leader of a small band of Mikmaq whose hunting and fishing territory included the area of Port-Royal.[3] In addition to being sakmow or political leader, Membertou had also been the head autmoin or spiritual leader of his tribe - who believed him to have powers of healing and prophecy. He first met the French when they arrived to build the Habitation at ...

p class=initial,To the Editors:. Though he is not the first to do so, Garry Wills, in Priests and Boys [NYR, June 13, 2002], the second of what is described as two articles on pedophilia and priests, manages to transform the venerable form of the essay-review into a rant with footnotes. A main, though hardly the only, point of Willss piece is that reactionary Catholics, a catchall category in which he includes this correspondent as a defender of the bishops, have seized upon a distinction between pedophiles and ephebophiles made in Pedophiles and Priests, a 1992 book by historian Philip Jenkins, in an effort, one gathers, to deny what Wills has chosen to identify, in Papal Sin, as structures of deceit in the Catholic Church. In the course of his essay, which purports to be about books, Wills alludes dismissively to comments of mine made on radio and television-surely a reach in a review essay. This letter is a response to his personal and, in my judgment, neuralgic attacks.. The ...

Papal Interventions and Roman documents repeatedly emphasize that certain characteristics must be present for a school to be considered authentically Catholic. More about All Saints Day from Wikipedia All Saints Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas [1]), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honor of all the saints, known and unknown. The school counsellor works as part of the school team to address barriers to learning for children and young people. Mark #5. All comments posted at Catholic World Report are moderated. Construction is underway on a private Catholic school in Henderson - the first new elementary/middle school campus in 19 years for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas. Research tells us that two significant barriers to educational achievement are mental health and ...

April ~ Chios is captured by Venetian raiders from its Genoese lords; it is later retaken.. Easter ~ The Second Statute of Westminster is passed in England, reforming various laws; it includes the clause de donis conditionalibus, considered one of the fundamental institutes of medieval law in England.. One of the chapters includes It is Felony to commit Rape. A married Woman elopeth with Advouterer. The Penalty for carrying a Nun from her House. Not sure if this was the first time rape was seen as a crime, but I include it out if interest as Pluto was an abductor/rapist after all. Advouterer actually means adulterer in Olde English. Though it sounds rather similar to abductor to me also.. April 2 ~ Pope Honorius IV succeeds Pope Martin IV.. Council of Blachernae: The Eastern Orthodox Church repudiates the Union with the Roman Catholic Church, declared in the Second Council of Lyon.. Separation of Church from State in England. The writ Circumspecte Agatis, issued by King Edward I of England, ...

Symbolically and materially, the Roman Catholic Church remains in a favorable position. Belgium officially recognizes three religions: Christianity (Catholic, Protestantism, Orthodox churches and Anglicanism), Islam and Judaism.In the early 2000s, there were approximately 42,000 Jews in Belgium. The Jewish Community of Antwerp (numbering some 18,000) is one of the largest in Europe, and one of the last places in the world where Yiddish is the primary language of a large Jewish community (mirroring certain Orthodox and Hasidic communities in New York, New Jersey, and Israel). In addition, most Jewish children in Antwerp receive a Jewish education. There are several Jewish newspapers and more than 45 active synagogues (30 of which are in Antwerp) in the country. A 2006 inquiry in Flanders, considered to be a more religious region than Wallonia, showed that 55% considered themselves religious and that 36% believed that God created the universe. On the other hand, Wallonia has become one of Europes ...

SERIES PREFACE FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY FOR CHRISTIAN PROCLAMATION COMMENTARY SERIES In recent years, biblical theology and has seen a remarkable resurgence. Whereas, in 1970, Brevard Childs wrote Biblical Theology in Crisis, the quest for the Bibles own theology has witnessed increasing vitality since Childs prematurely decried the demise of the movement. Nowhere has this been truer than in evangelical circles. It could be argued that evangelicals, with their commitment to biblical inerrancy and inspiration, are perfectly positioned to explore the Bibles unified message. At the same time, as D. A. Carson has aptly noted, perhaps the greatest challenge faced by biblical theologians is how to handle the Bibles manifest diversity and how to navigate the tension between its unity and diversity in a way that does justice to both.[1]. What is Biblical Theology? And how is Biblical Theology different from related disciplines such as Systematic Theology? These are two exceedingly important questions ...

why: There are two main reasons. Because Bahrain is more central, it is, in fact, located between Kuwait and Qatar and opposite Saudi Arabia; besides there is a bridge linking Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, which allows one country to be reached from the other in only an hour. The second reason is that it is easier to get entry visas in Bahrain for priests, catechists and Christian leaders arriving from other countries on the occasion of meetings.. What are the main pastoral challenges of the Vicariate? Mainly the different nationalities, languages, cultures and rites among the faithful. In Kuwaits cathedral we celebrate in five different rites - Latin, Malabar, Malankarese, Maronite and Coptic - and in 12 languages. Diversity of rites and languages may sometimes create tensions. It is easily understood how complex it can be, trying to match 5 rites and 12 languages. The other main problem is room shortage which is sometimes the reason for tensions among the groups of our hundreds of thousands of ...

Lheidli Tenneh First Nation (LTFN) Chief Dolleen Logan today demanded of the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, to visit the residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan where the remains of hundreds of children have been found in unmarked graves. Chief Logan said the only way for healing to begin is to have the head of the Catholic Church visit the sites of these crimes and apologize directly to the families of the kids who never made it home. In recent weeks, the remains of hundreds of children have been found at the sites of two residential schools in BC and one in Saskatchewan. Indigenous leaders say more discoveries of children who died while in the care of staff at Catholic-Church-run and Crown-sanctioned residential schools are expected.. Chief Logan stated, I learned last week that a group of Canadian Indigenous leaders is scheduled to travel to meet with the Pope at the Vatican in December to seek an apology for the deaths and ill-treatment of indigenous children ...

The Holy See is the universal government of the Catholic Church and operates from Vatican City State, a sovereign, independent territory. The Pope is the ruler of both Vatican City State and the Holy See. The Holy See, as the supreme body of government of the Catholic Church, is a sovereign juridical entity under international law. The U.S. and the Holy See consult and cooperate on international issues of mutual interest, including human rights, peace and conflict prevention, poverty eradication and development, environmental protection, and inter-religious understanding. Since his inauguration, Pope Francis has acted as a global advocate for human dignity and justice, placing particular emphasis on the moral imperative of caring for the poor and marginalized and taking action to end social ills such as trafficking in persons. The U.S. and the Holy See enjoy a positive relationship that serves to amplify a global message of peace, freedom, and justice.. ...

Meanwhile, Doctor Li lit two pieces of an herb called ai, which looked like the burning stumps of a broken, cheap cigar, and held them close to my abdomen while occasionally twirling the needles into action. All this took about 20 minutes, during which I remember thinking that it was a rather complicated way to get rid of gas in the stomach. But there was noticeable relaxation of the pressure and distension within an hour and no recurrence of the problem thereafter.. Many people in the medical field, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), believe that event is what precipitated what is now a 20-year surge of interest in acupuncture in the United States.. A report from a Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture held at the NIH in 1997 stated that acupuncture is being widely practiced by thousands of physicians, dentists, acupuncturists and other practitioners in the U.S.. According to the largest and most comprehensive survey of complementary and alternative medicine in use by ...

In terms of historical characters, I confess to knowing next to nothing about all of them. I have a very vague inkling of Cromwell, but no real understanding of that period (or any period) of English history. The religious jostling is perfectly beyond me: I have no idea even today what the big differences between Christian denominations are. Oh, I know Anglicanism was founded to permit divorce, and Evangelism / Protestantism a backlash against the centralised Catholic church, and I know there are some differences (confession, Lent, yadda yadda yadda), but to me as an outsider, it is inconceivable that all these minor details would matter in the least. So when the narrative speaks of Catholics, papists (the same, I gather), Anglicans, Protestants, Jesuits, Methodists, Quakers, etc. etc. etc. - I simply do not understand the religious differences, nor do I always follow the historical import of any particular factions actions / conspiracies. That is probably why the second and third narrative are ...

The New York Times is adamant about protecting the rights of Muslims while routinely bashing Catholics, says Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

A companion video to lesson 2 of the same series that asks the following questions:What is tradition? Which traditions are good? Why is theology a form of tradition? How can we distinguish what the Bible teaches from what we believe it teaches? Should churches try to balance orthodoxy, orthopraxis and orthopathos? Should orthodoxy, orthopraxis and orthopathos all be emphasized in the local church? Whats wrong with theology being bound by tradition? Should we avoid rationalism? Why do we need to be aware of ourselves if the goal of theology is objective truth? Are these lessons designed to convert students to a particular tradition? Is it possible for different denominations to benefit from each other? What are the five solas of the Reformation? How do creeds and confessions relate to the solas? Do the solas of the Reformation ignore the Father and the Holy Spirit? If justification is by faith alone, why does the Bible emphasize good works? If everything should be done for Gods

b) For those who are Non-Catholic, you are absolutely welcome to attend Mass and hear the word of God proclaimed every morning. You are without question our brothers and sisters. With that being said, while you can attend Mass, you cannot receive the Eucharist. The reason for this is, Catholics believe that the bread and wine when consecrated by the hands of a priest change in substance (not in form) into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In order to receive the Eucharist one must be Catholic and be in full communion with the Catholic Church. Please do not let this discourage you from attending daily Mass, you are most welcome and please do me the honor of sitting next to me ...

It is time to end the secrecy, provide transparency and act in a positive manner. The Diocese of Fall River is facing calls to release a list of clergy who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of a minor.. Last week, prominent attorney Mitchell Garabedian released his own list containing the names of seven priests, two clergy members, and one Catholic church employee who his office has successfully brought child sexual abuse claims against.. The move comes a year after Bishop Edgar da Cunha announced the diocese was readying a list for eventual publication, following a review of all its personnel records by former FBI assistant director William Gavin.. Most of the names anticipated to be released by the church have already been reported by the news media; however, the list is necessary for greater transparency on our part in response to clerical sexual abuse, da Cunha wrote in a letter to the diocese at the time.. The review process, he wrote, was expected to wrap up last ...

Downloadable! Although it is commonly believed that trade liberalization results in higher GDP, little is known about its effects on poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in pre-liberalization industrial composition across districts in India and the variation in the degree of liberalization across industries allow for a difference-in-difference approach, establishing whether certain areas benefited more from, or bore a disproportionate share of the burden of liberalization. In rural districts where industries more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, poverty incidence and depth decreased by less as a result of trade liberalization, a setback of about 15 percent of Indias progress in poverty reduction over the 1990s. The results are robust to pre-reform trends, convergence and time-varying

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This book explores New Testament theology based on the conference table approach. This approach allows New Testament writers to speak for themselves, engage in imaginary conversation, with the experiment in dialogue leading ultimately to the theology of Jesus. It examines the plan and the need of salvation as expressed by the writers of the New Testament, and the three-tiered structure of the New Testament language about salvation. It discusses the place of Jesus in the theology of the New Testament, arguing that the teaching of Jesus, as recorded in the four Gospels, shows the starting point and the goal of New Testament theology.

Google Map. Huntsville - Corner of 12th Street and Avenue I (in front of the Walls Unit) at 5:00 p.m. Austin - At the Texas Capitol on the sidewalk on 11th Street facing Congress Avenue from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Beaumont - Diocese of Beaumont, Diocesan Pastoral Office, 703 Archie St. @ 4:00 p.m. on the day of an execution. College Station - 6 to 7 PM on execution days, corner of Texas Avenue and University Drive. Corpus Christi - at 6 PM in front of Incarnate Word Convent at 2910 Alameda Street Dallas - 6 pm, SMU Catholic Center, 3057 University Blvd (University Blvd. and Airline Rd) Houston - To learn location or if a stay has been granted before you come out, call Burnham Terrell, 713/921-0948. Lewisville - St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 1897 W. Main Street. Peace & Justice Ministry conducts Vigils of Witness Against Capital Punishment at 6:00 pm on the day executions are scheduled in Texas. McKinney - St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Community located at 110 St. Gabriel Way. We gather ...

Google Map. Huntsville - Corner of 12th Street and Avenue I (in front of the Walls Unit) at 5:00 p.m. Austin - At the Texas Capitol on the sidewalk on 11th Street facing Congress Avenue from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Beaumont - Diocese of Beaumont, Diocesan Pastoral Office, 703 Archie St. @ 4:00 p.m. on the day of an execution. College Station - 6 to 7 PM on execution days, corner of Texas Avenue and University Drive. Corpus Christi - at 6 PM in front of Incarnate Word Convent at 2910 Alameda Street Dallas - 6 pm, SMU Catholic Center, 3057 University Blvd (University Blvd. and Airline Rd) Houston - To learn location or if a stay has been granted before you come out, call Burnham Terrell, 713/921-0948. Lewisville - St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 1897 W. Main Street. Peace & Justice Ministry conducts Vigils of Witness Against Capital Punishment at 6:00 pm on the day executions are scheduled in Texas. McKinney - St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Community located at 110 St. Gabriel Way. We gather ...

August 20, 2001. Fr. Frank Pavones comments on the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Controversy. The teaching of the Catholic Church about the human person respects the rightful autonomy of science and the fact that all truth, whether scientific or religious, comes from the same God. While pro-abortion people, and others who seek to manipulate and use the human person for their own gain, often obscure the clear evidence of science, the Church and the pro-life movement defend the fact that the existence of a unique human being, from the moment of fertilization, is a verifiable fact.. The human embryo, therefore, must be treated with the dignity due to the human person. The Charter of the Rights of the Family published by the Holy See affirms: Respect for the dignity of the human being excludes all experimental manipulation or exploitation of the human embryo. Priests for Life believes that a strongly practical response is necessary in the midst of the ongoing debate about embryonic stem cell ...

Satan, the Devil that through his servants, killed the king of heaven and took the kingdom of heaven by violence. He has deceived the world still ruling the world deceiving the world as the kingdom of heaven. Satan made Roman Catholic as his bride ruling over the invisible Church of God under his hands and created a ChristianDOM that looks beautiful to the eyes of carnal Christians. He has been persecuting the bride of Christ that is the true churches of God that believe in Jesus Christ for the past two thousand years making the Pope as the Vicar of Christ. Finally, even the churches of God have been deceived, and the Catholic church has brought them into their hands, and all the religions, as well as the churches of God, have already been integrated. They are going to make official for their scheme through signing the paper in the Peace Palace in Hague in Netherland on June 23, 2020. It is matter of time before they emerge into the New World Order to prevent from the kingdom of Jesus Christ as ...

Downloadable! We examine the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied MFN tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. We find that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector leads to a reduction in the external (MFN) tariff in that sector. External liberalization is greater if preferences are granted to important suppliers. However, these complementarity effects of preferential liberalization on external liberalization do not arise in customs unions. Overall, our results suggest that concerns about a negative effect of preferential liberalization on external trade liberalization are unfounded.

Crowds also have thinned at Bangkoks popular Wat Pho, a centuries-old Buddhist temple complex known for its giant reclining Buddha. The temple is normally visited by thousands of tourists, many of them Chinese, during the peak travel season from December to February, but large numbers of visitors as well as locals have stayed away since the outbreak began, said Phra Maha Udom Panyapho, a monk in charge of tourism at the temple.. A Protestant church in Seoul shut its doors and switched entirely to online worship services after one of its followers tested positive for the virus on Jan. 30.. Other Protestant churches in South Korea have sprayed their halls and rooms with disinfectant, canceled childrens Bible school programs and asked followers to minimize socializing. Hundreds of Catholic churches in the country have halted the use of holy water stoups, allowed churchgoers to wear masks during Masses and discouraged those with flu-like symptoms or those who came from countries with confirmed ...

The Diocese of Oakland serves the needs of the Catholic faithful in Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Diocese consists of 345 priests, 110 deacons and 455 religious brothers and sisters in 82 parishes, 11 pastoral centers and other diocesan offices. Including religious education programs, there are over 45,000 students under Catholic instruction in the Diocese at 41 elementary schools, 8 high schools, two Catholic colleges and several schools of religious formation. The Catholic Church throughout the Diocese offers a range of service ministries assisting the elderly, the young, the poor, and the oppressed. As such the Church is the largest provider of social services in the East Bay, delivering shelter, meals, counseling, education and other critical services free of charge to over 530,000 people of all faiths each year.

Dear Brother Bishops, It is a great joy for me to meet this evening with you, the pastors of the Catholic Church in Benin. I thank the President of the Episcopal Conference of Benin, Archbishop Antoine Ganyé, for the fraternal words of greeting which he offered in your name. With you, I am happy to give thanks to the Lord for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the evangelization of your country. To be exact, it was on the 18th of April 1861 that the first missionaries of the Society of the African Missions disembarked at Ouidah, thus beginning a new page in the proclamation of the Gospel in West Africa. To all the missionaries, bishops, priests, men and women religious, and lay people who have come from their own homeland or whose origins are in this country, who have laboured since that time and up to our own day, the Church is particularly grateful. They have generously given their lives, at times in a heroic manner, so that the love of God may be proclaimed to all. ...

In obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ we go, here in North America and abroad. Pray for the work of our churches, our mission committees, our missionaries - and pray for those who hear!. The Heidelberg Catechism:. Question 54. What believest thou concerning the holy catholic church of Christ?. Answer. That the Son of God from the beginning to the end of the world, gathers, defends, and preserves to himself by his Spirit and word, out of the whole human race, a church chosen to everlasting life, agreeing in true faith; and that I am and for ever shall remain, a living member thereof.. The Canons of Dordt. 1st Head, Article 3: And that men may be brought to believe, God mercifully sends the messengers of these most joyful tidings, to whom he will and at what time he pleaseth; by whose ministry men are called to repentance and faith in Christ crucified. Romans 10:14, 15:How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? ...

The population of Galveston County, Texas was 291,309 in 2010; in 2000 it was 250,158. The total population changed 16.5%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (157,705) included 54.1% of the total population in 2010. The population of Galveston County, Texas was 195,940 in 1980. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (94,943) included 48.5% of the total population in 1980. * In an effort to better match the ASARB standards for adherents, a few religious bodies changed the way their adherents were reported in 2010, including the Catholic Church, Amish groups, Friends groups, Jewish groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Non-denominational Christian Churches, and the United Methodist Church. This change does not affect any of the data in the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. In fact, the data for these groups are now more comparable to that of other bodies than it was in previous decadal ...