Sublime

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has seen its membership drop 58 percent during the same time period.

The “common prayer” or “prayer of the faithful,” which comes after the gospel and the homily, is to be restored, especially on Sundays and holydays of obligation. Thus there will be prayers, shared by the people, for the church, for those who have secular power over us, for those who are beset by

At present, the average Christian gives to the church at the exact percentage non-believers give to charities—just fewer than three percent.

someone who used to go to church at least once per month but now goes less than once a year.

I once asked a Catholic priest friend to tell me the most common problem he deals with in the confessional. “Pornography,” he said. “Nothing else is even close.”

Boniface VIII, in the Bull Unam Sanctam, made more extreme claims than had ever been made by any previous Pope. He instituted, in 1300, the year of Jubilee, when plenary indulgence is granted to all Catholics who visit Rome and perform certain ceremonies while there. This brought immense sums of money to the coffers of the Curia and the pockets of