When we read the newspaper or watch television we discover very quickly that only one theme is dominant: soccer and the soccer championship. Soccer has become a global event that, irrespective of boundaries, links humanity around the world in one and the same state of tension: in its hopes, its fears, its emotions, its...
Many a time we would hear that while knowledge is power to some there are those who use their lack of it as an excuse as if their ignorance were carefully planned and living that way was a difficult decision that they had to make and only with incisive disposition that they were able...
There is taking place at the present time a silent exodus from the Church. The inner consensus of belief seems, somehow, to have lost the power to control it that it would perhaps have had a generation ago…One problem here is that the Church can present to us only what she has and what...
We are here every third Saturday and at St Pats on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. St Malachys is at 239 West 49th Street between Eighth Ave and Broadway, and is easily accessed by the 50th Street stop on the C and E trains, the R train stop at 49th Street,...
by Kenneth D. Whitehead | Source The Creed which we recite on Sundays and holy days speaks of one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. As everybody knows, however, the Church referred to in this Creed is more commonly called just the Catholic Church. It is not, by the way, properly called the Roman Catholic...
by Pope Benedict XVI/Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger | Source The following essay is excerpted from the recently published Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith: The Church as Communion. On the occasion of Cardinal Ratzingers’s seventy-fifth birthday, his former students selected essays, lectures, letters, and conferences that Ratzinger has written in recent years— writing that they feel best...
