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

Friday, April 14, 2023

What Is a “Welcoming” Church?

What Is a “Welcoming” Church?

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Apr 13, 2023 10:25 pm
Going to and from work, I pass a number of Protestant churches whose street-side signage declares—usually in bright colors and in various size fonts—“all are welcome here.” I recently wrote about how three on my [...]
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Mad Mario on Rainbow Road

By Nick Olszyk on Apr 13, 2023 09:03 pm
MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Video game adaptations have a notorious reputation, no more so than the Mario Brothers franchise. While these plumbers—who first appeared in arcades forty years ago—have [...]
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Planned Parenthood’s twisted “care” is based on falsehoods

By Judie Brown on Apr 13, 2023 04:57 pm
The president of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson, recently told an interviewer that the sky is the limit when it comes to the care PP offers its patients. Specifically, when asked about gender-affirming care, she [...]
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Biden DOJ recommends no jail time for attack on Catholic church in Washington state

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 13, 2023 10:17 am
Maeve Nota vandalized St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, in June 2022. / YouTube/CNA Boston, Mass., Apr 13, 2023 / 09:17 am (CNA). President Biden’s Department of Justice is facing criticism after it was reported that the DOJ r... [...]
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The Feminine Mystique, sixty years on

By Andrew Petiprin on Apr 12, 2023 05:43 pm
In 1963, Betty Friedan published her influential book The Feminine Mystique, inventing a term to describe the languor born of unfulfilled desires among American women, whose primary duties consisted in keeping their homes and raising [...]
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Recognizing that men cannot be women should be par for the course

By Susan Ciancio on Apr 12, 2023 11:53 am
Yet another man has beaten women in a woman’s sport. The story has gotten quite old, and it’s categorically unfair to women. The Women’s Professional Golf Association recently tweeted: “Showing nerves of steel, Breanna Gill [...]
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Committee begins writing Synod on Synodality working document behind closed doors

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 12, 2023 10:25 am
Synod on Synodality logo / Courtesy USCCB Rome Newsroom, Apr 12, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA). A committee of 22 people this week kicked off the writing process for the Synod on Synodality’s working document that will be the blueprint for discussions ... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for April 12, 2023

By CWR Staff on Apr 12, 2023 04:00 am
Worship Attendance – “Stable share of Americans have been participating in some way – either virtually or in person – during the pandemic, but in-person attendance is slightly lower than it was before COVID-19.” How [...]
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They’re back!  

By George Weigel on Apr 12, 2023 02:05 am
As the estimable Larry Chapp recently put it on his blog, Gaudium et Spes 22, “the deepest, most important, most contentious, most divisive, and most destructive debates [after Vatican II] surrounded moral theology, especially after [...]
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The Harrowing of Hell in the light of Easter

By Dale Ahlquist on Apr 11, 2023 06:01 pm
We are still in the Easter Octave so it’s not too late to talk about something we often forgot to think about during the Triduum: The Harrowing of Hell. But, before we talk about the [...]
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Abandoned at the border: Priest tells how he was expelled from Nicaragua during Holy Week

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 11, 2023 05:00 am
null / Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 11, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). Father Donaciano Alarcón, a Claretian missionary expelled from Nicaragua by the dictatorship, described how the authorities leveled unfounded accusations against him, took him... [...]
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True nationalism, authentic patriotism, and the postliberal future

By Jerry Salyer on Apr 10, 2023 07:50 pm
Like so many words, the term nationalism requires qualification. To the naive, it may signify neither more nor less than a sense of national identity, or resistance to globalization. Yet in truth one hardly need [...]
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On Jessica Bates and the “new orthodoxy”: Can people of faith still adopt?

By Charles J. Russo on Apr 10, 2023 02:17 pm
Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five children aged ten to seventeen in Oregon whose husband died six years ago in a car accident unsuccessfully attempted “to adopt siblings from foster care,” both of whom [...]
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Human Driftwood: Walking along the shore of the Resurrection

By Julian Kwasniewski on Apr 10, 2023 01:48 pm
Have you ever paused to consider the ocean’s art of driftwood, walking along the shore at dawn? Ever paused at dusk as the foam chilled your feet to meditate on a silver gray block of [...]
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“The ‘Synodal Way’ into the German Schism.” A critical examination

By CWR Staff on Apr 09, 2023 10:00 am
Vatican (kath.net) With the last plenary assembly, the negotiations and democratic votes of the so-called “Synodal Way” have been concluded. The majority vote decisions are now to be implemented. However, the resolutions do not meet [...]
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Full text of Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi blessing for Easter 2023

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 09, 2023 05:45 am
null / Pablo Esparza/CNA Vatican City, Apr 9, 2023 / 04:45 am (CNA). On the morning of Easter Sunday 2023, Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter’s Square before delivering his Urbi et Orbi message and blessing from the central loggia of ... [...]
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“The Truth of the Resurrection” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

By CWR Staff on Apr 09, 2023 03:00 am
Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Introduction to Christianity (2nd edition) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Ignatius Press, 1990, 2004; pp. 301-10). ——— To the Christian, faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an expression [...]
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The Three “R’s” of the Resurrection

By Carl E. Olson on Apr 08, 2023 09:00 pm
Readings: • Acts 10:34a, 37-43 • Psa. 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 • Col. 3:1-4 or I Cor. 5:6b-8 • Jn. 20:1-9 or Mt. 28:1-10 “Hidden first in a womb of flesh, he sanctified human birth by [...]
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Becoming Catholic: Conversations with seven converts

By Jim Graves on Apr 08, 2023 02:19 pm
Dioceses across the nation are preparing for the Easter Vigil and the welcoming of catechumens (those not yet baptized) and candidates (baptized and preparing to receive Confirmation and First Holy Communion). Some dioceses are preparing [...]
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Weeping with Mary: Reflections on the gift of tears

By Monica Seeley on Apr 08, 2023 10:15 am
As a child, I accompanied my mother each day to morning Mass. And daily, after Holy Communion, I observed the same phenomenon: my mother, head in hands, absorbed in prayer. Tucked discreetly in one hand, [...]
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“They killed Him”: Deicide and Holy Saturday

By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Apr 08, 2023 04:00 am
The Christ is dead; the corpse of the Son of God lies on a cold slab in a suffocating, lightless tomb. Holy Saturday is a difficult day to keep holy. My parish marks it with [...]
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6 hot-button issues Pope Francis and Gen-Z confront in new Disney doc

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 07, 2023 03:00 pm
"The Pope Answers" airs on Hulu beginning April 5. / Hulu Washington D.C., Apr 7, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). “The true Church is at the peripheries,” Pope Francis says in Disney’s new documentary “The Pope: Answers,” which was released Ap... [...]
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Visiting El Santuario de Chimayó, the most popular pilgrimage site in America

By Father Seán Connolly on Apr 07, 2023 01:47 pm
I have always felt drawn to visit New Mexico ever since I read about its beautiful landscape and rich Catholic history in Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop. I finally made it [...]
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