Recent content by VincentIII

Podcasts are good too. What ones do you recommend? Thanks!

Can you recommend any YouTube channels for developing faith, following Church matters, or general inspiration/devotion? Thanks!

What calls you back to Catholicism? In what way does attending Mass at a different parish address the issues that pushed you away from Catholicism? I ask as a former Roman Catholic who is discerning another denomination. I'm interested in other people's conversion experiences out of the RCC.

I read your thread about this in the divorce forum but couldn't respond because of my marital status. I was appalled by how your church leadership represented itself one way after being clearly asked for their position, then went the opposite way. Maybe it's how they manipulate divorced people...

Nice work on the model! I've been thinking about getting back into plastic models. One of my childhood hobbies was building model cars, planes, and ships. Painting was the weakest of my model-building skills, but my completed models were passable and lots of fun to build.

The article's intro starts with the question of "equality," which suggests it's about single women feeling excluded from positions in church governance. Unsurprisingly, it actually revolves more around single women not finding husbands in church. I'd say it's a safe assumption that for some...

Have you heard the joke about Jesus' greatest miracle being that he had twelve friends when he was 30? The flaw in Cox's article is that he doesn't talk about how men feel about having few or no friends. That should absolutely factor into whether this amounts to a crisis. Unfortunately, the...

It turns out the OCC parish isn't active anymore. Before I learned that today, it occurred to me that such small self-reliant parishes are at risk of going inactive if they don't have a good succession plan.

Hello, Father Rick! I'm considering attending Mass at a nearby Old Catholic Church parish. I haven't gone yet because it's 45 minutes away, but a recent reading of their online resources inspired me to attend their next Mass. Could you answer a few questions: With respect to the...

Interesting. Did you notice whether the rosaries at the convention were Dominican or Anglican?

Here's an article suggesting an Anglican-oriented prayer sequence for a Dominican rosary: https://anglicancompass.com/anglican-prayer-beads-the-anglican-rosary/. I have an Anglican rosary that looked nice when I ordered it online, but the feel in the hand isn't nearly as nice as my simple...

How about this? "Are you pregnant, or suspect that you might be pregnant? yes - no - n/a" Yeah, I know that the woke activists would find issue with the n/a.

Regrettably, I haven't been to a Corpus Christi procession. At the end of today's beautiful Corpus Christi Mass, the priest invited us to a procession in the afternoon. I had other plans, but will do my best to be there next year. I look forward to watching the videos in this thread.

My apologies if my advice to start a new thread came across as aggressive. I didn't mean it that way and certainly didn't mean to run you out of the forum. I saw the new thread you posted and appreciate your enthusiasm for Corpus Christi.

That's an unrelated topic, so please start a new thread if you'd like to discuss it.