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Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Celebrating Halloween By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 31, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About halloween family activities all saints day holy days of obligation the mass As longtime readers know , I'm an unabashed advocate of celebrating the vigil of All Saints Day more commonly known as . Halloween As I've discussed in Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween claims that it is a pagan holiday are overblown in fact , the first attempt to tie Halloween to a Celtic harvest festival came over a thousand years after All Saints Day was first celebrated . Indeed , by the time that
Updated: 2012-10-29 07:00:37
Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum A Novena for America By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 29, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About election 2012 barack obama mitt romney anticatholicism civic prayers Tuesday , November 6, 2012, is the date of the national elections in the United States . After a half a decade of economic instability , and in light of increasing governmental anti-Catholicism symbolized most potently by the Obama administration's contraception mandate this election has taken on even greater importance than usual . And yet many voters are dissatisfied with the two main choices for president and find
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Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum The Martyrdom of Everyday Life By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 28, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About benedict xvi martyrdom beatification spain persecution of christians Five years ago , on October 28, 2007, the Catholic Church beatified 498 Spanish martyrs who were killed during the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 The ceremony was the largest single beatification in the history of the Catholic Church , and it shows , in the words of Pope Benedict XVI , how the supreme witness of blood is not an exception reserved just for a few individuals , but a realistic possibility for an
Updated: 2012-10-27 08:00:12
Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Preparing for All Souls Day By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 27, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About all souls day purgatory indulgences prayers for the dead confession November 2 is All Souls Day the day on which the Roman Catholic Church commemorates all of those who have died and are now in Purgatory being cleansed of their venial sins and atoning before entering fully into . Heaven At one time , Catholics flocked to their churches on All Souls Day , to offer prayers in memory of their friends and loved ones . These days , however , most All Souls Day Masses are poorly .
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Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Join the About.com Catholicism Purgatorial Society By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 26, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About purgatory prayers for november all souls day the holy souls mass intentions Longtime readers of the About.com Catholicism GuideSite know that I have always strongly encouraged devotion to , and prayers for , the Holy Souls in Purgatory especially in the month of November A few years ago , I decided to take my advocacy for the Holy Souls a step further , by announcing the About.com Catholicism Purgatorial Society You may be unfamiliar with the concept of a
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: . Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Novena of the Week : To St . Charles Borromeo By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 26, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About saint charles borromeo the counterreformation christian unity novenas Our novena this week is a Novena to St . Charles Borromeo 1538-84 one of the towering figures of the Catholic Counter-Reformation . This cardinal-archbishop's zeal for the Catholic Faith and Catholic education was matched by his humility and his personal care for plague victims in Milan in 1576-77. As we recall Pope Benedict's 2009 overtures to Anglicans who wish to return home to Rome ,
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: Religion Spirituality Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Novena of the Week : To Saint Jude and the Sacred Heart By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide October 19, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About saint jude the sacred heart anglicanism christian unity novenas Too often we look at obstacles in our lives and decide that they are insuperable , that there is no hope for us to overcome . them But as we prepare to celebrate the three-year anniversary of Pope Benedict's overtures to disaffected Anglicans on October 20, 2009, we should know that no cause is ever hopeless . If entire communities of Anglicans can reenter the Catholic Church ,
