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Pride and Prejudice: The uneasy relationship between gays and lesbians and their church

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
By Online Editor
Pride and Prejudice: The uneasy relationship between gays and lesbians and their church
As church leaders turn up the volume on same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian Catholics find themselves wondering just where they stand in their church.On a clear, windy Sunday in March 2010, Father William Breslin told his parishioners at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Boulder, Colorado why the parish school would not re-enroll a child of same-sex parents for the coming school year.“I hate the fact that I
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When do the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ?

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
By Online Editor
When do the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ?
The question of exactly when the eucharistic gifts become Christ's Body and Blood has commanded attention and debate for centuries.From the supper at Emmaus, disciples have cherished the Eucharist as the clearest sign of the Risen Lord's abiding presence.Yet, beginning in the Middle Ages, for a thousand years laypeople in the West seldom received Communion, and even then only under the form of bre
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What's the Catholic view on church and state?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
By Online Editor
What's the Catholic view on church and state?
During Christianity's earliest centuries, an era of official persecution of Christians, church and state were not only separate but opposed. Then in the early fourth century, when Emperor Constantine became a Christian, the church and state began to visibly collaborate.
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A woman on the altar: Can the church ordain women deacons?

Tuesday, January 3, 2012
By Online Editor
A woman on the altar: Can the church ordain women deacons?
The issue of women priests may be a settled matter, but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t serve the church as a deacon.Celebrating the opening of the archives of her work on women in the diaconate at Loyola University Chicago’s Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, scholar Phyllis Zagano minced no words about the topic that has been her life’s project: “Women as deacons is not a concept for the fu
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Why does the church require miracles for sainthood?

Friday, December 9, 2011
By Online Editor
The church requires two miracles before a person can be canonized. Why?A Catholic friar on a plane that made a dramatic emergency landing in Poland last fall clutched a lock of hair from Blessed John Paul II while praying for the safety of his fellow passengers. Will this be the second miracle needed for the late pontiff’s canonization?
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What are the "12 days of Christmas"?

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
By Online Editor
What are the
As we're reminded every Advent, our Catholic Christmas customs are somewhat at odds with the secular "holiday season," which starts before Thanksgiving and goes on until the last college bowl game.But even though we Catholics wait a bit to get going, we have a similarly long season of celebration, of which the "12 days," made famous by a certain 12-verse carol, are but a piece.The 12 days themselv
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Can a Catholic receive communion in a Protestant church?

Tuesday, August 30, 2011
By Online Editor
Can a Catholic receive communion in a Protestant church?
Should you pass on communion at a Lutheran church or participate fully?
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Why isn't transubstantiation in the creed?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
By Online Editor
Why isn't transubstantiation in the creed?
When considering the Catholic Church, perhaps nothing stands out so obviously as the Mass.Eucharist, according to the Second Vatican Council, is both the “source and summit” of Christian life. Using bread and wine, at Mass we celebrate a communal sharing of the true presence of the risen Christ in these elements, which change from bread and wine into this sacrament of Christ.
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Where do we get the Marian dogmas?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
By Online Editor
Where do we get the Marian dogmas?
Although the Roman Catholic dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary are relatively new (1854 and 1950, respectively), the pious attitudes that generated these promulgations are ancient.Scholars of early Christianity are in agreement that interest in the mother of Jesus was mostly initiated by the need to clarify the church’s teachings about the nature of Christ, his relationship
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Pride and prejudice: A history of the relationship between gay and lesbian Catholics and their church

Monday, February 20, 2012
By Online Editor
Pride and prejudice: A history of the relationship between gay and lesbian Catholics and their church
1969: Dignity, the first group for gay and lesbian Catholics, is founded. The Stonewall Riots, considered the beginning of the gay rights movement, follow a police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village. 1973: The American Psychiatric Association votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
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