Catholic Church

By Brian Williams, Liturgy Guy Blog - It seems like the question keeps coming up and yet there seems to be little to no response from our Bishops. Every year since 1965, the priest to faithful ratio has gotten worse. There is not much more than hand wringing going on to solve the problem. The trend keeps spiraling downwards. The seminaries of yesteryear are almost all closed, consolidated, or operating at minimal capacities.

By Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald - A Congolese priest who was placed into quarantine after testing positive for Ebola has reportedly been released and declared Ebola-free... A picture of Fr Lucien Ambunga kneeling as a bishop prayed for him across a fence went viral earlier in the week. It was posted on Twitter by the photographer, Will Swanson... Fr Ambunga was said to have contracted the disease after ministering to a dying patient. The bishop who visited him has been identified as Bishop Fridolin Ambongo of Mbandaka-Bikoro.

By Steven D. Greydanus, National Catholic Register - Pope St. John Paul II...When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, the memorial of her Lord’s death and resurrection, this central event of salvation [the Lord’s death and resurrection] becomes really present and “the work of our redemption is carried out”. This sacrifice [the Lord’s death] is so decisive for the salvation of the human race that Jesus Christ offered it and returned to the Father only after he had left us a means of sharing in it as if we had been present there...

By Gretchen Filz,  The Catholic Company - The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, historically known by its Latin name, Corpus Christi, celebrates the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist—Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. It is traditionally celebrated on the Thursday following the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. The feast dates to the Middle Ages and originated with a visionary nun and a Eucharistic miracle.