One of the greatest sources of festivity is the Church herself, her liturgical calendar filled with feasts... The Solemnity of Christ the King is no exception.
U.S. bishops have selected their choices for delegates to next year’s Synod on the Family.
Archbishop Kurtz
Archbishop Chaput
Archbishop Jose Gomez
and Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston
God gave us his Son, so every December, we imitate him by giving iPads, sweaters and fruit baskets. Our rushing from store to store and perusing the hottest retail deals online, spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars in the process, is all our way of imaging God, the One in whose image we were made … or is it?
The answer is yes … and no.
Pope Francis does not speak like an intellectual. He is not, like John Paul II, an original thinker, or, like Benedict XVI, a supreme scholar of the Tradition. He is a pope whose manner is simpler and more ordinary, and yet, when I hear him, I hear them.
The 2014 Fall General Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore will be live streamed on the Internet, November 10 and 11.