Baltimore deacon Mark Ripper has assembled a useful web site with information on the Faith. I came across his St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Resource Site while looking for the text of the rite of Ordination, and indeed he has all three versions. Thanks, Deacon Mark!
Ministry: January 2005 Archives
Holy Name of Jesus Church in Providence is celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by demonstrating the depth of Christian unity that exists in the Catholic Church: they're offering seven days of Masses with celebrants of various countries and rites. What a neat idea!
A pastor from B.C. got interested in the new religious communities and movements after attending the 2002 World Youth Days, so he made a pilgrimage out of visiting fifteen of them in Ontario and Quebec. They're some inspiring and faith-filled people!
The CARA organization at Georgetown reports that the level of self-reported Sunday mass attendance hasn't changed much over the past four years: up at the Jubilee, down again, up after 9/11, down when the sex-abuse scandal went nationwide, and now more or less where it was in late 2000.
Admittedly, the real level of Mass attendance probably doesn't live up to the 33% figure, but the self-reported number is probably a good indication of trends.
