Purdue Exponent
West Lafayette, IN:
Statewide Catholic churches suspend Masses, including locally
Catholic churches throughout Indiana are suspending all public activities – including Masses – starting on Wednesday.
What Is It That Leads People Into the Catholic Church?
What factors lead to someone becoming Catholic? Fr. Michael Cummins discusses the conversion of his parents, who were led into the Church not by one single experience, but through what Bl. John Henry Newman called “the illative sense,” a capacity to draw together many converging experiences.
The Broken and Blessed Catholic Church
The Catholic Church is made up of many sinful, broken individuals. So why be Catholic? The Catholic Church isn’t about an institution existing for its own sa...
Did You Know? The Catholic Church Invented Hospitals
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To restore confidence, the Catholic Church must demonstrate it is adaptable to 21st-century realities and not mired in medieval views.
Why am I still a Catholic?
The Catholic Church should reconsider its position on celibacy, which contributes to an environment of secrecy, and its patriarchal culture.
Child safety standards for the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church in Australia is being told to adhere to a new set of standards to help stamp out child sexual abuse. Church entities will be audited to ensure they comply.
Where does RCC agree/disagree with the Catholic Church?
Many people ask me questions about RCC’s views on Roman Catholicism. Where do we agree with the Catholic Church? Where do we disagree? And why? To provide a positive forum to address these question…
Catholic Church not a force for good? 'I refute it thus'!
For many people in the developing world, the Catholic Church is the only voice of civil society that isn’t corrupt or driven by self-interest. It’s often the difference between people being fed or starving to death, or between being treated for their illnesses or dying of neglect.
What do liturgical colors mean?
The Catholic Church uses our senses - with the aroma of incense, the sounds of the choir, the images of the Nativity and the crucifixion - to draw us deeper into the cyclical mysteries of the liturgical seasons.
What Family Really Means
In their fixation on marital status and sexual behavior, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church lose sight of a bigger picture.
How the Catholic Church determines a true Marian apparition
When it comes to Marian apparitions, the Catholic Church takes a prudent approach that focuses more on the message than the miracle.
how does the catholic_church declare official saints?
Wanna Know...How the Catholic Church declares someone a saint? Have you ever wondered about the steps to canonization -- that is, being named a saint by the ...
