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So Mote It Be Free Masonary SO MOTE IT BE THE QUESTION OF FREEMASONRY The question of the Christian stand regarding Freemasonry seems to confront our ministry at every turn…

Thank God For Purgatory THANK GOD FOR PURGATORY! If it weren't for purgatory I don't know what I would do. According to the Second Vatican Council, I "may attain to…

Stigmata STIGMATA BASIC R.C. BELIEF Wounds or scars on an individual corresponding to the wounds of Jesus. One with these wounds is called a stigmatic, or stigmatist. The Church has…

Saints SAINTS BASIC R.C. BELIEF Heroic servants of God who have died and are in Heaven. Many have been canonized) by the Church and are given the inferior veneration of…

Salvation SALVATION BASIC R.C. BELIEF In classic Roman Catholicism, the possibility of Hell is very real and the prospect of Heaven very dim, except after a long term in Purgatory.…

Tonsure TONSURE BASIC R.C. BELIEF A sacred ceremony whereby one is raised to clerical state and rendered capable of receiving Holy Orders. It is not an order, but a sacramental.…

Really out on a limb # "OUT ON A LIMB" When a made-for-TV movie gets this much hype, I watch it out of curiosity. Ordinarily, I would have tuned in…

Spiritual Tug Of War SPIRITUAL TUG OF WAR by Patti Lalonde Recently we printed a news item in the Omega-Letter in which the British newspaper,THE INDEPENDENT (May 13, 1990), reported…

Padre PADRE PIO BASIC R.C. BELIEF From a speaker at the Rosary for Peace Rally, Dayton, Ohio, October 1986. Padre Pio is the only man known to have possessed all…

Transcendental Meditation TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION POST VATICAN II THE CATHOLIC VOICE wrote, "Like Transcendental Meditation, this (the Jesus Prayer) is practiced by the constant repetition of a mantra or sacred word,…