Band of Brothers in Christ: The Abiding Value of Men's Groups
A longstanding men's group brings community, stability to Poughkeepsie, New York parish.
A longstanding men's group brings community, stability to Poughkeepsie, New York parish.
How precisely might someone go about showing that he had authority, mastery, and power over substances? Bear with me: this is an important question.
Apologies, but I am going to mention a television show, not to praise it or blame it, but simply because it portrays an interesting, troubling character.
In the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and, even more so, in the post-Conciliar period, the Church's canonical discipline was called into question at its very foundations.
In an age that prioritizes mammon over God, how many Christians will take up that courage?
A few years ago, I took up painting as a hobby.
In his 1990 Address to the Roman Rota (the Pope's ordinary court of appeal), Pope Saint John Paul II describes the inseparability of sound pastoral practice and canonical discipline.
Over the past few years, certain words, for example, "pastoral," "mercy," "listening," "discernment," "accompaniment," and "integration" have been applied to the Church in a kind of magical way, that is, without clear definition but as the slogans of an ideology replacing what is irreplaceable for us: the constant doctrine and discipline of the Church.
We all need to face it at some time, perhaps even many times. "Why did God let this happen?"
A picnic table at Grandma's house ended up being a test of my faith.