Catholics to protest Houston Satanic ‘Black Mass’ with rosary rally, prayers of reparation

Catholics will rally outside a Texas brewery on Saturday to pray and denounce a “Black Mass” to be held there by a Satanic group.
Members of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and at least two Catholic parishes plan to participate in prayers of reparation at local churches as well as a rosary rally outside the Brash Brewery in Houston, where pro-abortion Satanists will conduct what is claimed to be the first public “Black Mass” in the region.
Rosary rally organizer Karen Pomes told LifeSiteNews that she has been harassed by callers who claim to be Satanists and others who have sent dozens of objectionable text messages. Undaunted, Pomes said in an interview that she and other Catholics will pray Saturday near the Brash Brewery to ask God’s forgiveness for the Satanic ritual. She said “prayer warriors” from Louisiana and as far as Wisconsin are coming to join local activists at the rosary rally. She said she expects priests from Houston to also attend.
Among prominent Catholics calling attention to the rally in opposition to the Black Mass was Dr. Taylor Marshall. On social media, he wrote: “This is what you are up against, Catholic Houston. Petty blasphemers.” --> READ MORE

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African bishop says Catholic Church can learn from Pentecostals

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon - Catholics can learn from the rise of Pentecostal Christian groups in Africa, according to one Nigerian bishop.
In 1970, Pentecostals represented just 5 percent of all Africans, but that figure has now more than doubled to an estimated 12 percent.
Many Catholic leaders have noted these groups aren’t always spreading the Gospel to non-Christians but are “sheep stealing” from the Catholic Church and mainline Protestant denominations.

However, Nigerian Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah said the Catholic Church authorities “cannot ignore the passion of the Pentecostals and the extent to which they have made the Gospel come alive.”
The Sokoto bishop told Crux “there are lessons for the Catholic Church.”
Despite the exponential growth of Pentecostals in Africa, the Catholic Church is still gaining more members on the continent. Nearly one in five Africans - 19.2 percent - is Catholic, and the Pew Research Center expects the number of Catholics in sub-Saharan Africa to double by 2050.
“I am pleased with the growth of Christianity in Africa,” Kukah said, but expressed concerns about “the quality of the faith in terms of the way the message is being presented and how much we are moving away from the mind of Christ, His concerns for the poor and the fact that He came to make all things new.”
The bishop was alluding to the proponents of a “prosperity Gospel” that promises earthly rewards like wealth and success for following Christ.--> READ MORE

Decline in Hispanic Catholics a 'direct challenge' to the Church in the US

Washington D.C., Oct 23, 2019 / 05:19 pm (CNA).- Last week’s Pew report revealed that Catholics are no longer a majority among U.S. Hispanics—a stark challenge to the Church in the U.S. to evangelize.

“What we’re not doing well as a Church is that we’re not building a culture in the parish where the family is truly welcome, and for Hispanics, that really is unforgivable,” said Carlos Taja, associate director to the Secretariat on Evangelization and Catechesis at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an interview with CNA.

Last week, the Pew Research Forum on Religion and Public Life published the results of surveys of American adults conducted in 2018 and 2019.

The report showed a precipitous decline over the past decade in the percentage of the U.S. population that identifies as Christian, with the percentage of those religiously “unaffiliated” rising substantially in that time.

Overall, the percentage of Americans identifying as Christian has fallen by 12% in the last decade to 65% of the population, according to Pew. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans not identifying with any religion at all has risen by 9% to 26% of the American populace.--> READ MORE

Catholic Debate on Married Priests Goes Global

VATICAN CITY—Church members who want to relax the thousand-year-old requirement of priestly celibacy are watching to see what happens on Saturday in Rome, where Catholic bishops are debating a proposal to allow married men in the Amazon region to be ordained.
A bishops’ assembly at the Vatican on issues facing the Amazon this month is discussing the idea to overcome a recruitment problem that has left many Catholic believers in the region with only infrequent visits from priests. The bishops will vote on their recommendations to Pope Francis on Saturday. A call for permission to ordain married men in the Amazon would encourage those who have been making similar proposals on other continents, prompting arguments that “if it’s going to be proposed in one region, then we should have the right to look at it elsewhere,” said Adam DeVille, a professor of theology at Indiana’s University of Saint Francis and editor of a forthcoming study on married Catholic priests.--> READ MORE

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In appeal to young Catholics, Vatican unveils the ‘eRosary’ — an electronic way to pray

Pope Francis has made waves as a modernizer of the Roman Catholic Church as he signals new openness to divorced worshipers and considers loosening celibacy requirements for priests.

This week, the Vatican turned heads with another nod to changing times: a wearable “Click to Pray eRosary” complete with a smartphone app, the religious organization’s latest attempt to connect with young people.

Made of 10 dark beads and a “smart cross” to store data, the $110 rosary, which can be worn as a bracelet, syncs up with what Vatican News calls “the official prayer app of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network.”--> READ MORE

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Las campanas regresan a la parroquia de San Agustín tras 80 años

La parroquia de Santa Catalina y San Agustín de Valencia celebrará este miércoles 28 de agosto la fiesta de su titular, San Agustín Obispo, con una misa y la bendición de sus cuatro nuevas campanas. Con ellas el campanario del templo, que ha permanecido los últimos 80 años vacío, volverá a tener sonido, según ha informado el Arzobispado en un comunicado.
La misa dará comienzo a las 19.30 horas y las campanas, que estarán expuestas en el altar, serán bendecidas después de la homilía, ha indicado el párroco Javier Llopis, que ha precisado que se instalarán próximamente en el campanario.--> LEER MAS

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