Nassau County N.Y. Catholic: December 2022

Lord

The heart of the Christian community is our Triune Lord: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Geography, history, and numbers are not the heart, but probably I will type mostly on these topics. As the internet already provides many encouraging spiritual guides and discouraging contentious forums, I intend to offer neither.
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Monday, December 12, 2022

Guadalupe, in Spain and Mexico

At the end of the 12th century in Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain, a man found a hidden statue of Mary.

Please see the Wikipedia article linked HERE.

Two hundred years later, Juan Diego met Our Lady at Tepeyac, now part of Mexico City. Her feast is December 12th.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

The loss of Catholic print media

The Pilot is the official weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, published from offices in Braintree, Massachusetts. On December 3, 2022, it published an article, "Loss of print media seen as posing challenges to U. S. church communications." The link to the thirty-paragraph analysis is HERE.