Catholic Church

July 17, 2020

CNA: German Archdiocese Plans to Cut Parishes From 1,000 to 40

By CNA/CNA Deutsch - A German archdiocese is pressing ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of its parishes despite the Vatican’s decision to block a similar plan in another diocese... CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German language news partner, reported July 15 that Archbishop Stephan Burger intends to turn the archdiocese’s 1,000 parishes into 40 mega parishes.

July 17, 2020

City of Toronto Bans Catholic Churches From Administering Holy Communion, by Shane Trejo

By Shane Trejo, Big League Politics - The Ontario Ministry of Health has issued COVID-19 guidelines advising to “suspend activities that increase risk of disease transmission, including” the “sharing or distributing materials or objects, which may include but is not limited to: books, communion, microphones, prayer mats, prayer shawls, water, etc.”

July 17, 2020

Msgr. Charles Pope: If You Think You’re in a Hurry, You Have No Idea of How Fast You Are Getting There.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - It’s dizzying to consider our speed and motion: a spinning earth, rotating around a sun, which is rotating around a galaxy, which is rotating around a spinning universe. So, if you think you’re standing still, think again; we are actually hurtling through space at mind-boggling speed... Yes, you’re on the move. You’re moving so fast you met yourself coming back! Don’t let anyone tell you you’re loafing... Here are some biblical “speed texts.” Hurry up and read them!

July 17, 2020

The Problem of “No Time”, by Dr. Peter Kreeft

By Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Integrated Catholic - Why don’t we seem to have as much time as our ancestors? In fact, we all have exactly the same amount: twenty-four hours each day. Technology should have given us scads of extra time. Our lives should be oozing with leisure. All those time-saving devices! Yet they’ve done exactly the opposite. The more time-saving devices we have, the less time we have. (The only way to get time is to turn the clock back, not forward!) What went wrong?