What is the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults? The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, released in 2006, is an adaptation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for members of the Church in the United States. Intended to be a catechetical resource for adults, this Catechism consists of 36 chapters, a conclusion,...
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The Catholics Coming Home group meets Mondays in the Nativity Youth Room beginning at 7:00pm  during Lent. The group, sponsored by the Catholic churches of Fargo and West Fargo, gives all who seek  a friendly, informal place to search out the answers. It doesn’t matter if you have been away for a long time,...
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When Catholics have been away from the Church, they sometimes are unsure of how to go about returning. They might have questions for which they seek answers. If they have been away a long time, they wonder how the Church of today is different from what they knew. Catholics who have questions about returning...
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5th Sunday of the Year – Cycle C 2010+ Isaiah 6:1-8; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11 Polls of Catholic churches across the United States give a rather alarming statistic. “The average Catholic parish in North America has fewer than ten percent of its registered members involved in various parish activities.”  What this means is...
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Ah the holidays. The sights and sounds, and the smells of Christmas bring us back, back to the time before we stopped, for whatever reason, actively practicing our faith. But, it’s not too late. Coming back, joining our faith family at the Eucharist is not a complicated process and can take as long as...
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When we pray for the dead at our eucharistic celebrations, for whom are we praying? November, the month of All Souls, is dedicated to praying for the dead in a more focused and intentional manner. Catholics believe that praying for those who have died expresses our continual care and concern for those no longer...
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Isaiah 50:5-9; James 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35 At the center of our readings today is the age-old teaching that has been misunderstood since the time of the reformation – the controversy between faith and works.  Paul, in his letter to the Romans states clearly, “. . . we consider that a person is justified by...
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