#Catholic Problems

My nine most recent #Catholicproblems

When you misnumber a Commandment on your blog because the internet showed you the Protestant Ten Commandments. #combox pounce

When “Family Size” groceries don’t mean your family. This especially occurs when purchasing non-healthy items.

Missing getting slugged in the larynx with patens at Communion. #thegoodol'days

Bringing enough dollars for collection at Mass so each of your kids can give. #goingbroke

Going to a neighboring parish for confession because you fear your priest will recognize your voice but still wanting him to know you go to confession so you bring it up awkwardly in conversation.

When you hear giggling from your kids everytime you mistakenly say “And also with you” at Mass. #oldschool

You’re leading the rosary after morning Mass and you lose your place and you panic because you can’t remember if you’ve said eight or nine Hail Mary’s.

When my youngest calls out the table next to us at Applebees for not praying before eating.

I have to pray to St. Anthony to help me find my rosary.

 


 

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

Four German Bishops Resist Push to Install Permanent ‘Synodal Council’

Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Meanwhile, on Monday, German diocesan bishops approved the statutes for a synodal committee; and there are reports that the synodal committee will meet again in June.

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis