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What exactly is a Pallium?

The pallium, I believe, is a liturgical vestment worn by the pope and by archbishops who receive it from the […]

By Admin / January 5, 2016

Is it incongruent, sinful or sacrilegious for post-Vatican II Catholics to attend and receive Holy Communion at the Tridentine Latin

Becoming a cardinal can give you a spring in your step, as Owen McCann, archbishop of Cape Town, found when

One is horrified by the evil that is terrifying all and sundry these days. How can one explain why the

I believe there are norms in place to regulate having women in the sanctuary during liturgical rites. If so, what

The Catholic Church seems to be the only church, if not the only religion, that stubbornly refuses to allow a

In Luke 23:39-43 there is the story of the two thieves crucified with Jesus. One asked Jesus to remember him

By Michael Shackleton / September 22, 2015

The so-called social teaching of the Church confuses me because the Catechism of the Catholic Church is long-winded about it.

After Mass in a diocese in Britain I requested the celebrant to hear my confession. He replied he couldn’t, because