“Marriage is not something we invent or change to suit our own purposes,”explains Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, the Archbishop of Louisville, and chair of a bishops’ committee to defend marriage as only the union of a man and a woman.

El matrimonio no es algo que podamos inventar o cambiar para servir a nuestros propios propósitos, explica el Arzobispo José Gomez, Arzobispo de San Antonio, en este comentario que defiende el matrimonio como la unión solamente de un hombre y una mujer.

Gregorian Tantum Ergo, to the Holy Sacrament…Modus 1,2,3.
Monks of Saint Benedict’s Covent, Brazil.

Procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Saint Francis de Sales Oratory, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest; April 5th, 2007.

His Excellency, Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Kazakhstan, has joined Archbishop Malcom Ranjith on speaking out on receiving communion in the hand.  Bishop Schneider’s book “Dominus Est:  Meditations of a Bishop from Central Asia on the Sacred Eucharist” was recently released by The Vatican Editing House. The book contains a foreword by Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith, the Vatican’s Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments.  Above is the interview with Bishop Schneider conducted by Gloria.tv.

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book “Long Live Israel.”

As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Allam’s head and said a brief prayer in Latin.

“We no longer stand alongside or in opposition to one another,” Benedict said in a homily reflecting on the meaning of baptism. “Thus faith is a force for peace and reconciliation in the world: distances between people are overcome, in the Lord we have become close.”

Gregorian Tantum Ergo, to the Holy Sacrament…Modus 1,2,3.
Monks of Saint Benedict’s Covent, Brazil

Bishop Bernard Tissier De Mallerias delivers his Confirmation Sermon at St. Thomas Becket Catholic Church – Veneta, Oregon
April 24, 2006

Congratulations Sammy! The son of Greg and Jennifer Willits of the Rosary Army makes his first Communion. Very touching.