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Gloria.TV News on the 31st of March 2014 Holy Hour: Pope Francis keeps a Holy Hour every day according to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith …More
Gloria.TV News on the 31st of March 2014
Holy Hour: Pope Francis keeps a Holy Hour every day according to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith speaking to a German newspaper.
Vatican Guidelines: Three years ago, Madison Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino issued guidelines that gave priests the option of either washing the feet of only men on Holy Thursday or not celebrating the ritual at all. Now a diocesan spokesman said priests have the same two options this year. The men-only decision of the bishop corresponds to the binding guidelines of the Vatican.
Waxing and Waning: Catholicism is shrinking in its former U.S. heartlands in the north-east and Midwest. A typical parish in this area saw a net loss of 167 registered parishioners between 2008 and 2012. This shrinking has been offset by growth in the South and southwest of the country. The number of Catholics in the archdiocese of Atlanta has increased by 180% in the last ten years.…More
wormheart
Now they are marketing Francis having a daily holy hour, what's next?
Temperance
No wonder the Catholics are becoming fewer & fewer in the North East. When you have a liberal bishop such as Dolan more concerned about going on TV on MSNBC Catholics are going to fall away.