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IV. Rosaries

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Nothing apart from Mass gives Catholics more comfort and causes more spontaneous combustion among Protestants than the Rosary. While the number of televisions per person in the United States almost boggles the mind, that statistic doesn’t hold a nine day novena candle to the number of Rosaries per Catholic in the US. If you include [...]

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III. Making Saints

Friday, April 18th, 2008

The current process for declaring someone a saint was established by Pope John Paul II in 1983 in the document Divinus Perfectionis Magister. This document continued a process of simplification started by Pope Paul VI during Vatican II. So how do you get to be a saint? First, you have to be dead at least [...]

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