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No problem. This thread is about a Catholic practice and Cardinal Burke. My wife’s side of the family is Catholic. Several of them are (and others were when they were alive) priests, deacons and nuns. I’ll be asking them about this too when I get around to seeing them. Thanks again. I...

As part of the curriculum, I had to take two preaching classes. I did what I was required to do in order to pass the classes, but after I graduated ... I used a form of preaching which my professors disliked, discouraged and wouldn’t allow in the classroom. It’s called “dialogue preaching” -...

You might recall my “What’s the matter? Don’t you trust the man?” church story. Anyway, Paul commended those who searched the scriptures to see whether or not what he preached was true. I do that with any preacher I listen to and, when I was a student, I did it with all of my professors.

I’m a primitive, Ante-Nicene, Christian. Thank you.

This will be a learning experience for me. The message (a form letter) from Cardinal Burke: “Dear Matthias, There is great spiritual work to be done. You no doubt know this well, which is perhaps one of the reasons you have decided to join me during our nine-month Novena to Our Lady of...

I’m neither Catholic nor Protestant but I just signed up to receive the novena emails. I’ve also just received the first email from Cardinal Burke.

Thanks. Why do you choose not to participate in novenas?

“The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.” (Tertullian, Apology, Chapter 50) The followers of Jesus must be willing to suffer, even to the point of martyrdom.

Yes. I attended a Christian college that didn’t. Some will applaud and some will deplore such a college. I do both. Join us again tomorrow for another exciting episode: Unity and diversity in Christianity. or Christianity is a mess. Eat the meat and spit out the bones. Meanwhile, the...

Acts 5:42 would be the appropriate response for the followers of Jesus in the unlikely event that such a law was passed.

https://guadalupeshrine.org/post/what-is-cardinal-burkes-nine-month-novena/ @Marymog, @Illuminator, @BreadOfLife Would any of you care to comment?