My Catholic vocabulary expanded on March 7, 2020 when Pope Francis announced the Synod on Synodality. I knew what a synod was because the church had been holding them since its earliest days, but synodality was a novel concept. Some clarity came several months later when the Vatican released the handbook designed to guide the […] The post Expand your rosary with the “synodal mysteries” appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
The following excerpt is adapted from Our Church Speaks by Ben Lansing and D.J. Marotta. ©2024 by Benjamin Terry Lansing and Daniel John Marotta Sr. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press. www.ivpress.com. Christianity was introduced to Korea in the late eighteenth century by Korean laypeople who encountered the faith while studying in China (Butler’s Lives of the Saints: […] The post The story of the first Korean priest teaches us hell will not prevail appeared first on U.S. C...| U.S. Catholic