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Altar servers are pictured as Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in the Zairean rite for the Congolese community in St. Peter s Basilica at the Vatican in this Dec. 1, 2019, file photo. In the preface to a new book, the pope said the approval of the Zairean rite of the Roman Missal shows that it s also possible to develop a rite for the Amazon region. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.)
Last year, Pope Francis called the Zairean Rite “the only inculturated rite of the Latin Church approved after the Second Vatican Council.”
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Last year, Pope Francis called the Zairean Rite “the only inculturated rite of the Latin Church approved after the Second Vatican Council.”
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Patrick Henry Reardon
By submitting this article in response to Dr. Thomas Torrance I intend, in the first place, to pay my respects. When I read his recent argument favoring the ordination of women (“The Ministry of Women,”
Touchstone 5.4, Fall 1992), I felt that the author had to be answered. Not that the lines of his argument are either especially persuasive or particularly original. I believe that they are neither, having used some of them myself back when I was an Evangelical Protestant and thought women’s ordination an idea whose time had come. But Dr. Torrance is Dr. Torrance, after all, and anything
how” the sacred topographies described in the Bible might have functioned, Professor Ken Dark of England’s
University of Reading believes the holy sites, including Jesus’ birthplace, became pilgrimage sites much earlier than is generally believed.
The researcher initially set out to discover “when” exactly Christians began traveling to holy sites in the Holy Land that were associated with Biblical events. However, during the course of his study, the professor found evidence suggesting fourth-century imperial church-builders “inherited, rather than created” the locations of Christian significance, and that the holy sites had emerged gradually over many centuries.
Jesus’ Birthplace And The Origins Of Christian Pilgrimage
Aristides (d. AD 134) attests that Christians in his day affirmed that Jesus âfrom a Hebrew virgin assumed and clothed himself with fleshâ (
Apology §2), and Irenaeus (d. 130) states, âThe Church . . . has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith . . . [including] the birth from a virginâ (
Against Heresies 1.10).
It is vital, then, that we have an opportunity each year to reflect on this staggering, foundational fact of Christianity: Jesus â unlike any other human who ever existed â was born without a human father.
âBorn of the Virgin Maryâ
Where do we see this in Scripture? Letâs begin with the first part of the creedal phrase, â
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The archaeological evidence of Jesus Christ s life and death has been hotly contested over the centuries. On the one hand, skeptics claim not many accounts outside of the Bible testify in favour of the Biblical narrative. On the other hand, there is a rich heritage of temples, artefacts and locations that faithful Christians believe historically prove what they already hold spiritually to be true.