An Ecumenical Ministry in the Parish of St Patrick's Catholic Church In San Diego USA

米国サンディエゴの聖パトリックカトリック教会教区におけるエキュメニカル宣教

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Logos, Shepherd, and Only King of All Creation

Singing through Advent: Part One

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 26, 2020 06:00 pm
“Beauty will save the world,” says’s Dostoevsky’s Idiot. We need beauty. The preeminent theologian of beauty, we might say, was Hans Urs Von Balthasar, who rhapsodized on this notion thus: Beauty is the last thing which [...]
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Supreme Court overturns NY church restrictions, Brooklyn bishop says religion ‘essential’ during pandemic

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 26, 2020 04:33 pm
CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2020 / 01:23 pm (CNA).- The Supreme Court said Wednesday night that NY state restrictions  during the coronavirus pandemic are a violation of the First Amendment’s protection of free religious exercise. [...]
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Thanksgiving with the Saints

By Joseph Pearce on Nov 26, 2020 02:43 am
It is of course right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might [...]
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New history of Catholics in the United States full of scholarship, insight, humor

By Bradley J. Birzer on Nov 25, 2020 07:14 pm
Dr. Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an amazingly prolific, talented, and innovative historian. His books on California, especially the five-volume California Dream series, which he completed while he was California State Historian, remain models of true [...]
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Kentucky dioceses keep Masses open despite governor’s request

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 25, 2020 06:54 pm
CNA Staff, Nov 25, 2020 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- Kentucky’s four Catholic dioceses will not suspend public Masses despite the governor’s request that religious services be held online only until December 13. Gov. Andy Beshear [...]
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It is bleak in weird London—but there are chinks of light

By Joanna Bogle on Nov 25, 2020 05:09 pm
At London’s Waterloo station the announcements have a ritual lilt: “You must wear a face-covering unless you are exempt…stay safe…social distancing…” I am inadvertently reminded of a scene from a film about St John Paul [..]
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Thanksgiving and the paradox of death

By George Weigel on Nov 25, 2020 03:01 am
The juxtaposition of Thanksgiving with the Church’s annual month of prayer for the dead hadn’t previously struck me with force; that it did this year has something to do, I expect, with my late sister-in-law, [...]
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Christ Child at the capitol

By Joseph M. Hanneman on Nov 24, 2020 08:52 pm
Nearly two-thirds of state capitol buildings in the United States will display a Nativity crèche this Christmas season, a nearly 50 percent increase in just two years under a partnership between American Nativity Scene and [...]
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Analysis: Archbishop Gregory says he won’t deny Biden communion. How will Catholics respond?

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 24, 2020 08:36 pm
Denver Newsroom, Nov 24, 2020 / 04:25 pm (CNA).- Washington’s archbishop, who will be made a cardinal this weekend, told a journalist Tuesday that in his diocese, he will not deny Holy Communion to a [...]
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Horror begets horror

By Nick Olszyk on Nov 24, 2020 07:32 pm
Netflix, 2020 MPAA Rating: TV-14 USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels (Disclaimer: The following review contains spoilers.) There is no greater trauma in this world than the death of a child. [...]
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Chinese Patriotic Association announces ordination of new bishop

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 24, 2020 11:14 am
CNA Staff, Nov 24, 2020 / 08:00 am (CNA).- The Chinese Patriotic Association announced Monday the ordination of a new bishop of Qingdao. The episcopal ordination of Thomas Chen Tianhao,
陈天浩, took place on Nov. [...]
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Giving a damn (about work, life, and faith)

By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Nov 24, 2020 01:55 am
Remove modern cultural sentimental accretions from the Catholic faith, and a muscular Church Militant emerges from the Catholic tradition. We are in an epic, life-long battle for the salvation of souls. Hence, military metaphors are [...]
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What kind of relationship? On the “one”, the “many”, and things in the world

By Dr. Randall B. Smith on Nov 24, 2020 12:12 am
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part essay. Should we consider “relation” a transcendental property of Being? That may seem an odd question. The transcendental properties of Being are those that belong to [...]
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Vancouver archbishop criticizes pandemic restrictions on Masses

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 23, 2020 11:59 pm
CNA Staff, Nov 23, 2020 / 08:00 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Michael Miller of Vancouver expressed disappointment with the government’s decision to ban religious services as part of a plan to curb the pandemic in British [...]
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“Axe-grinding and message spoil what you make”: An interview with Marly Youmans

By Carl E. Olson on Nov 22, 2020 09:41 pm
Novelist, poet, and story-teller extraordinaire Marly Youmans, author of fifteen books, has been described as “the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers” and “a novelist and poet out of sync with the times but in [...]
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“Thy Kingdom Come!”: Christ the King reigns in consciences

By Douglas Bushman on Nov 21, 2020 08:50 pm
That Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom (Mt 6:9–13; Lk 11:2–4) long before they could fully understand its true nature has long intrigued me. Clearly, Jesus intends to lead [...]
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McCarrick’s modus operandi: deceit, division, diversion, and discouragement

By Ines Angeli Murzaku on Nov 21, 2020 08:14 pm
How did Theodore McCarrick make it to the helm, becoming a leading bishop and a prince of the Church? His journey and thirst for positions, power, and ambition is quite remarkable: from his 1977 appointment [...]
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The McCarrick Report: A timeline

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 21, 2020 12:55 pm
CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2020 / 03:22 am (CNA).- The following is a timeline of important dates from the McCarrick Report. Published by the Vatican Nov. 10, the report examines the “institutional knowledge and decision-making” [...]
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The God Question Revisited

By Jack Gist on Nov 21, 2020 02:18 am
Walker Percy’s father committed suicide when Walker was a teenager. After his mother drove her car off a Louisiana bridge, he was raised by an agnostic first-cousin. Such experiences have driven many a young soul [...]
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Christ the Foolish King

By Stephen G. Adubato on Nov 21, 2020 02:10 am
The Gospel reading for the Solemnity of Christ, King of the Universe calls to mind Nietzsche’s critique of the foolishness of Christianity and its Founder: When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday [...]
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Jesus Christ: Logos, Shepherd, and Only King of All Creation

By Carl E. Olson on Nov 20, 2020 03:30 pm
On the Readings for Sunday, November 26, 2017, The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe [...]
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