Daily Archives: 16 June 2024

M 42: Orion Nebula

Posted on 16 June 2024 by catholicsensibility

Today, yet another Messier object. And it’s a big one. Pretty too. I’ll let the European Space Agency tell the tale on the image of Messier 42 from the Hubble Telescope: This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern … Continue reading →

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Indulgentiarum Doctrina 1: Indulgences, a Beginning

Posted on 16 June 2024 by catholicsensibility

APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION OF POPE PAUL VI INDULGENTIARUM DOCTRINA WHEREBY THE REVISION OF SACRED INDULGENCES IS PROMULGATED I’ve had this document on a back burner for a few weeks now. I thought it prudent to form myself in the practice of … Continue reading →

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2023 SIL Worksheet B 3.4abc: Groupings of Churches

Posted on 16 June 2024 by catholicsensibility

B 3.4 How can we give structure to instances of synodality and collegiality that involve groupings of local churches? Ecumenism isn’t a significant part of synodality in some quarters. Maybe it should be. Other churches and communions haven’t latched to … Continue reading →

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Spes Non Confundit 23b: Sin Leaving Its Mark

Posted on 16 June 2024 by catholicsensibility

Still, as we know from personal experience, every sin “leaves its mark”. Sin has consequences, not only outwardly in the effects of the wrong we do, but also inwardly, inasmuch as “every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to … Continue reading →

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More Change in Steubenville

Posted on 16 June 2024 by catholicsensibility

More news from southeast Ohio. A new prelate has been appointed for Steubenville. Not a bishop, but a replacement apostolic administrator. A few months after Bishop Paul Bradley publicized that he hadn’t yet found reason to believe the Diocese of … Continue reading →

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