Number of British women becoming nuns hits 25-year high
The number of women becoming nuns in Britain reached a 25-year high last year, according to figures released by the Catholic Church on Thursday.
The number of women becoming nuns in Britain reached a 25-year high last year, according to figures released by the Catholic Church on Thursday.
Tagalog lessons from an English teacher. Oración. Six p.m., to Catholics before WWII, meant time for the oración or evening prayer. The church announced it to the neighborhood by the well-spaced tolling of one of the bells in the belfry. Every family prayed the oración at home. The prayer began something like this: “The Angel of the Lord came down unto Mary.” “And she conceived of the Holy Ghost” etc.
Last year, after saving up for over a year and recovering from illness, I gave myself a long-anticipated 50th birthday gift: a pilgrimage to visit my favorite saints in Europe, and to see Pope Francis in person in Rome.
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines is against the return of the death penalty.
San Martin de Porres, patron of the sick and the poor, celebrates feast on Nov. 3
“Is anybody here baptized?” cries the preacher. “Amen!” roars back his flock as it sways to a hypnotic drum beat, part of a push by African Catholics to win back believers seduced away by the fast-growing Evangelical movement.
Ireland’s top drag queen, Miss Panti Bliss, has driven a stiletto heel through this nation’s long-running debate on gay rights. Panti has riled up conservative Catholics and won global admirers in a social media tour de force that is dominating Irish water-cooler talk.
It is with such exuberant and hopeful fondness for the new pope that many Catholics greet one another these days. Indeed, particularly for us borderline, estranged or otherwise marginalized members of the church, Francis is so easy to love.
“A radical traditionalist Pope.” Pope Francis drew this oxymoron of a headline in a column written by Mary Ebstat in the Oct. 7 issue of Time magazine.
The cause for the beatification of Servant of God Bishop Alfredo Verzosa, bishop of Lipa during the Lipa Apparitions in 1948, needs 30 witnesses, according to Sr. Julie Micosa, MCSH. There were already 14 witnesses who were interviewed by the tribunal working for the cause, she said.
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