Author Archive for Msgr. Charles Pope

Church Interior
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What does the Catholic Church Offer to the Homosexual Person?

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The Church offers Gay people what she offers anyone else: the truth.

Whirlwind
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Reaping the Whirlwind

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A reflection on the deepening darkness that celebrates homosexual unions and activity. There is, among faithful Catholics, a dismay, and even an understandable anger at the events unfolding at the Supreme Court these past days related to gay unions. And even if the court were to uphold traditional marriage (which does not seem likely), or […]

A Reflection On the Benedictine Vow of Stability
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A Reflection On the Benedictine Vow of Stability

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Most Catholics are familiar with the three vows taken by most religious of poverty, chastity and obedience. To these three, St. Benedict (whose feast we celebrated July 11), added a fourth for the Benedictine order, the vow of stability. Our summer seminarian who had considered joining the Benedictines at one time spoke to us today […]