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History of Latin Mass in Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Catholic has a decent surface-level summary of Pittsburgh’s Latin mass community.
Latin Mass has history in Pittsburgh Diocese
“…[T]he Diocese of Pittsburgh formed a committee in early in 1989, and the celebration of Mass in Latin was reintroduced in the diocese on June 11, 1989, at two locations: the Duquesne University chapel and SS. Peter […]
Reflections on a Homosexual Bible Study (Part II)
Read Part I of "Reflections on a Homosexual Bible Study".
In the next four chapter sessions, same-sex conduct was defended. Almost every well-known section of the Bible that dealt with it was analyzed to divert attention from its homosexual aspects toward something else. Only after attempting to strip down inferred homosexual aspects of each Bible passage […]
Possibilities of the Reunion of East and West.
In the past half-century, relations between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church have been growing ever closer and oriented ever more toward possible reunion. Perhaps the greatest hope of the late Holy Father John Paul II, of happy memory, was the reunion of these two oldest Churches of Christendom. In his many […]
A Case for Female Priests?
“Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners; they are prominent among the apostles and they were in Christ before me.” - Romans 16:7
Were there female apostles? Were all apostoloi also prebyteroi and/or episcopoi? Were there once female episcopoi/presbyteroi in the Church?
Straining Gnats and Swallowing Camels
"You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!" - Matthew 23:24
The irony in the following was too good for me to pass up. My favorite (I mean that. He’s a nice fellow when not on his soap box.) Bible thumpin’, street preachin’, Jack Chick resemblin’ Fundamentalist, Rand, had an unpleasant exeperience […]
