Evangelization Through Drama

For readers who don't know me, over the past several years and through the influence of a friend, I have developed an interest in the idea of evangelization by example, and the best examples are dramatic. Most of our real lives aren't apparently dramatic, or we're too modest to call attention to ourselves, so this leaves us with drama: thus evangelization through drama. On Gaudete Sunday and the following Monday, I went to see three plays; call it research.

Godspell

I remember the song Day by Day being played at Holy Mass when I was about 13 and living in the Browsnburg, Indiana. Compared to some of the music used today, it isn't too bad.  Back then I was too young to know how cool the liturgists thought it was that a top 40 hit could be played at Holy Mass. I was too young to know what a liturgist was. Someone told me the song  came from something called Godspell, but I never saw the play.  I corrected this omission from my education by seeing  Mustard Seed Theater's production.

New Translation of the Roman Missal

With introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal, some Catholics (and non-Catholics) might question why it was necessary. The first question might be, “Translation from what?” Latin, of course. In the Roman Rite (sometimes we say the “Latin Rite”) our liturgy is composed in Latin and then translated into the common tongue of whatever country you happen to be in. It isn't like there's an English Mass and a German Mass and a Spanish Mass and a Japanese Mass and so on. There is the Roman Mass (or Missal), and then it is translated. Or not – is is perfectly fine to use the Roman Missal un-translated too. In St. Louis, Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form is celebrated in Latin at St. Mary of Victories Church downtown every Sunday at 9:30. The first English translation was implemented in 1969 and updated in 1985. As of Advent this year (2011) we again have another update of the English translation.

The Curé of Ars to Visit St. Louis December 10

Leonardo Defilippis will perform his one man show Vianney at 7:30 PM Saturday, Dec. 10^th, at the Carmelite Monastery Chapel, 9150 Clayton Road in Ladue, and at 7 PM Monday, December 12^th, at St. Angela Merici Church, 3860 N. Hwy. 67 in Florissant. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

Cardinal Burke: "things are getting better"

In an interview with the Catholic News Agency, Archbishop Emeritus of St. Louis Raymond Cardinal Burke expressed his assessment of where the culture war is going

I think that sometimes the young people understand much better the bankruptcy of a totally secularized culture because they’ve grown up with it

and because of this better understanding, better outcomes might be seen.

Cardinal Burke goes on to warn of a coming persecution and points out that elections matter. Read the full interview here.

Exorcism Explained

Credo of the Catholic Laity and the Catholic Union of Missouri were pleased to welcome Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois the evening of Sunday 20^th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clayton for the annual Christ the King Dinner and Frederick Philip Kenkel Memorial Lecture. With over 150 in attendance, the forum provided excellent opportunity to see old friends and meet new ones, and learn something.

A Great Novena

A Great Novena of Masses to the Immaculate Conception will begin at St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis on Wednesday, November 30^th, 2011. There will be guest sermons at each Mass on various aspects of Mary's role in Salvation History. The Masses will be according to the Classical Roman Rite.

We are very fortunate to have here in St. Louis a place of prayer with the resources to pull-off something like this – a Great Novena is a difficult thing to do, but the rewards in graces are... infinite.

Know Your Liturgical Colors

I would give my life for a single ceremony of the Church.
-St. Teresa of Avila

• White for joy, the Blessed Virgin, Christmas, Easter and the Transfiguration.


• Red for the Holy Ghost and martyrs.


• Green for days in the new springtime.


• Purple for the seasons of penance and fasting.


• Black for sadness and the darkness of the grave.

These are the colors of the liturgy, generally understood, in the Western Church and they are most obvious in the Mass as they are the colors of the priest’s vestments and they correspond to the season or occasion.  We are often enough told that this or that is a reminder of something and often enough it goes in one ear and out the other.  Here we have something for our eyes instead.

How Faith Impacts Art and Vice-Versa

One of my personal interests is the interaction between Faith and Art. This idea encompasses a great deal: it is just as much about Philosophy and Art, Popular Culture and Art, and Propaganda and Art. Contrary to modern superstition, there can be no Art for Its Own Sake. On this all the world agreed, Catholics and Communists alike. 19^th century Bohemians coined the slogan to avoid the accusation that their art was subversive (and it was subversive). Whether their art was attempting to subvert something that ought to be subverted is an entirely separate question. There are people today who use the slogan, and even defend it, but I think they're wrong: at the very least their art reflects something of their world view, even if they themselves do not recognize it. It isn't for its own sake, a purely aesthetic exercise. It communicates something even by the style in which it is done.

Take this piece here by Willem de Kooning (Woman V). It is recognizably a woman. But what does the painting say? Is the woman mentally ill or confused? Are all women confused? Or only blonde women? What about the artist? Is he confused by women? (I know I am). Is this how he sees women? If so, he's missing a lot, and more's the pity. Women are indeed mysterious. de Kooning seems to think they're ugly as well.

Institute for Pastoral Theology Preview Weekend

Credo Advisory Board member Larry Feingold is one of the instructors for Ave Maria University's Masters in Pastoral Theology program here in St. Louis. You can get a taste of what the program has to offer during their "Open Class Weekend" coming on November 11^th, 12^th, and 13^th.

You can think of Pastoral Theology as something like Applied Theology. The program is meant for anyone whose duties include religious education: DREs, religion teachers, deacons, homeschoolers and parents generally, and leaders of lay apostolates will especially benefit. The program is also meant to be one of personal formation and calls students to a personal holiness as emphasized by Pope John Paul II in Christifidelis Laici and is quite appropriate for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the rational basis for The Faith.

Exorcism in Law and Practice

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois will deliver the Frederick Philip Kenkel Memorial Lecture at the annual Christ the King Dinner, 6 P.M., Sunday, November 20^th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clayton. Credo and the Catholic Union of Missouri are pleased to welcome his Excellency to tell us about the Church's response to the work of the devil.

Register on-line here.

Obama is Alienating Catholic voters

So says St. Louis writer Colleen Carroll Campbell in her latest article. I think she's wrong: most Catholics are not alienated by what he's doing. They think that he's implementing Gospel Values, with an occasional feature the Bishops object to, but then most Catholics don't want the Bishops imposing Catholicism on Catholics, much less anyone else.  The next election cycle will tell.

Dr. Ray Guarendi in St. Louis October 8th

The Missionaries of the Holy Family will host Dr. Ray Guarendi, international Catholic speaker and author, who will present Back to the Family, a national research study on the characteristics of strong families and the struggles they face, on Saturday, Oct. 8^th, here at St. Wenceslaus Church. This is a talk for adults who have a young family or are considering founding one.

Rosary at 9:30 am, Mass at 10:00 am, and talk by Dr. Ray from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon. There is no charge (free will offering only). For details, call (314) 577-6300, send an e-mail to MSF@MSF-America.org, or click here.  Located in south St. Louis City on Gravois south of Jefferson. Click here for a map.

Dr. Ray is a clinical psychologist and father of ten. He may be heard Monday through Friday on local Catholic Radio and is a frequent guest on Catholic Answers Live.

Ray Mertens Passes to his Reward

Our good friend and past Credo President Ray Mertens passed from this life on Saturday August 13th, apparently as a result of a heart attack. He was 82 years old.

Ray was the second president of Credo and led the organization for about four years in the latter nineteen nineties and early two thousands. In addition to Credo, Ray was a member of the Serra Club which encourages vocations to the priesthood and the religious life. Ray was an active soldier for the church and will be missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing him. We ask your prayers for the repose of his soul.

Latin Liturgy Association Meeting

LATIN LITURGY ASSOCIATION
ST. LOUIS-BELLEVILLE CHAPTER
CAPITULUM SANCTI LUDOVICI et BELLEVILLENSIS

The local chapter of the Latin Liturgy Association is meeting on October 29^th at The Church of the Little Flower in St. Louis County. There will be a talk on the history of the parish and the church building itself, and (of course) some Latin prayers, so brush up your Paters and Aves. If you've never experienced prayer in the native language of the Latin Rite, go and just listen.

Msgr. Eduardo Chávez Sánchez

Updated! Time Changes.

Our Lady of Guadalupe for Life welcomes Msgr. Eduardo Chávez Sánchez, one of the world's leading experts on the Guadalupe apparitions, to St. Louis on Saturday, October 1^st, 2011. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to hear one of the world's foremost experts on the Guadalupe apparitions.

Sr. Rosalind Moss, now Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God

Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, Prior of the Benedictine  Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle in Tulsa Oklahoma wrote the following:

"A Momentous Event

"This morning, on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the humble Oratory of our monastery was the setting of a momentous event. His Excellency, Bishop Edward J. Slattery was with us for the the canonical establishment of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope as a Public Association of the Faithful, in view of their becoming an Institute of Consecrated Life.

"Rosalind Moss Becomes Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God

"Foundress, Rosalind Moss, in religion Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God received the traditional Benedictine habit, given that the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope have begun to follow the age-old Rule of Saint Benedict. ..."

The remainder of this article, In the Sight of Angels and Men, and another, In the Heart of the Church: Your True Home, along with pictures of Mother Miriam, Fr. Mark, and Bishop Slattery, are available by clicking on the titles of the articles.

Thanks be to God!

In Christ,
David Moss

AHC Lecture Series: Man Elevated to Share in the Divine Life

The Fall 2011 lecture series, "Man Elevated to Share in the Divine Life", sponsored by the Association of Hebrew Catholics (AHC) begins on Wednesday Sept 21^st . The lectures are held in Boland Hall of the Cathedral Basilica, every Wednesday from 7-9 PM. The lectures are of general interest to Catholics and presented free of charge by Credo Advisory Board Member and AHC Director of Theology, Dr. Lawrence Feingold, Assistant Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University's Institute for Pastoral Theology.

This series discusses Christian Anthropology from the supernatural point of view. Each lecture in the series stands alone, but you can view the schedule and titles of all lectures, as well as retrieve MP3 podcasts of past lectures here,

The notes for past lectures are being collected into a book series. The first three volumes, for the first three series of lectures, have already been published by "The Miriam Press", the publishing arm of the AHC, and is local to St. Louis.

Evangelical Catholicisim

eagerness to pitch orthodox Catholicism as the most satisfying entrée on the post-modern spiritual smorgasbord, using the tools and tactics of a media-saturated global village, makes Evangelical Catholicism both traditional and contemporary all at once.

Credo's Spiritual Advisor Fr. Brian Harrison proposed this article (from the National Catholic Reporter, of all places)  to Credo members for reading, apropos Credo's mission to participate in the New Evangelization. In the article, writer John Allen Jr. reflects on the meaning of World Youth Day, noting that there have now been 26 of them. The hallmark of Allen's Evangelical Catholicism is what he calls "Affirmative Orthodoxy" which he's been talking about for at least a couple of years. Affirmative Orthodoxy consists in affirming what the Church affirms and letting her condemnations speak from a kind of silent contrast. As ever, we encourage your comments here on the Credo website.

Heroes and Saints of the Military Chaplaincy

Lt. Cmdr. Fr. Joseph Coffey, U.S.N.

6 PM August 28^th, 2011
at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clayton

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Real Men become Military Chaplains. Joseph Coffey climbs mountains, wins kayaking competitions, cheers every sports team in Philadelphia, rides fighter jets off of aircraft carriers, leads teams , and follows troops into combat. He also hears confessions and offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Lt. Cmdr. Fr. Joseph Coffey is a U.S. Navy Chaplain.

The Absurdity of Abortion Laws

St. Louis author Colleen Carroll Campbell hits a home run with her recent Post-Dispatch column, demonstrating the absurdity of abortion laws in the United States. She's saying that the public at large is missing the point: there is no ontological difference between the death of Caylee Anthony and the deaths of uncounted other children. And it isn't that the law pretends there is; rather, it is that the civil law has developed in a climate of narcissism. Chesterton's Fr. Brown in the story The Chief Mourner of Marne was faced with something similar, except in reverse.

150 Relics at St. Francis de Sales Friday & Saturday July 22 & 23

A special exhibit of over 150 relics of saints, including one of the world's largest certified relics of the True Cross and a (Vatican certified) piece of the Veil of Our Lady is coming to St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Friday, July 22, 2011 .

Father Carlos A. Martins, a priest of the Companions of the Cross, will present his Treasures of the Church exhibit, which begins with a talk about the Church's use of relics. Then you will have an opportunity to venerate the relics. There will be two presentations: Friday evening at 5 PM and Saturday morning at 9 AM.

Masters Degree in Pastoral Theology

Ongoing Catholic Education for adults is a concern for the New Evangelization. Here in St. Louis, Ave Maria University offers a program in Pastoral Theology and awards a Masters Degree. You can think of Pastoral Theology as something like Applied Theology. The program is meant for anyone whose duties include religious education: DREs, religion teachers, deacons, homeschoolers, and leaders of lay apostolates will especially benefit. The program is also meant to be one of personal formation and calls students to a personal holiness as emphasized by Pope John Paul II in Christifidelis Laici and is quite appropriate for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the rational basis for The Faith.

Pope Benedict Copies Credo: Launches Vatican News Service Website

Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI - on @news_va_en


Pope Benedict is ahead of Credo: we don't have a Twitter feed. But the Holy Father has, and he used it to announce the launch of what looks like a comprehensive Vatican News Service website, appropriately, on the Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul and the 60^th anniversary of his ordination. Wow. It looks like the new website collects stories of interest from other Vatican sources, and organizes them all in one place. This is similar to the plan for Credo's website, except we plan to focus primarily on St. Louis.

Love Your Enemies -- Luke 6:27

An unusually thoughtful article by a U.S. Army surgeon in Afghanistan appears in the June 22/29, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.  Joshua Alley, M.D. begins by referring to a March 12, 1945 Time magazine story entitled "Amazing Thighbone" which described advanced, and ahead of its time, intramedullary rod treatment of femur fractures in American soldiers returning from German prison camps.  Dr. Alley remarks that the captivating thought is that the enemy would render not just reluctant care, but outstanding care.

Eucharistic Congress June 24 - 26

The 2011 Eucharistic Conference in the St. Louis Archdiocese is coming up soon, corresponding with the Feast of Corpus Christi. A Eucharistic Congress is a relatively recent phenomenon in the church, evidently dating from the late 19^th century. The first one (so called) was held in Lille, France in 1881, and immediately became an annual event. Saint Pope Pius X ratified the idea by requesting an (or the) International Eucharistic Congress be held in Rome in 1905. Read more in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

In some places in Europe there were civil laws against religious processions and of course some "vigorous" Protestantism which denies the truth of the Substantial Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharistic Species. It seems that the first Eucharistic Congresses were meant to be simultaneously witness to the Faith and a protest against civil laws forbidding public expression of it. The story in the encyclopedia article about the 1908 Eucharistic Congress in London seems indicative. Here in the USA we don't have an established church actively opposing us, but we do have a very skeptical and condescending popular culture as in 19^th century France. A Eucharistic Congress serves to "confirm the brethren" and to publicly witness to our future brethren. Cardinal Burke will be back in St. Louis for the event. Registration is requested. For more information, click the graphic.

The Barbarism of Dr. Death

St. Louis own Colleen Carroll Campbell remembers Dr. Death in this column at the St. Louis Post Dispatch. The penultimate paragraph is particularly good.

Do check a few of the comments -- these represents the attitude we're up against; people can't understand the point of Chesterton's Ballad of Suicide at all, primarily because  they can't understand the point of anything -- they deny that anything has a point. And it is nothing new.

Chesterton Society Conference in St. Louis

One difficulty faced by the Church in this past century has some irony about it: just as more and more people are learning to read and books are becoming more available, actual literacy has fallen. This makes it difficult to produce good Christian and Catholic art -- there is no audience for it. There is a chicken and egg problem: without a market, talented writers will go elsewhere, as pointed out in 1957 by Flannery O'Connor. And without good literature, any remaining popular interest (understandably) wanes. But in the early part of the 20^th century, there was a rich and robust group of Catholic and Merely Christian writers, informing, debating, and entertaining in the popular press. The greatest of these was G.K Chesterton.

Uncovered WWII Note re: Pius XII

An article in Our Sunday Visitor dated June 12, 2011 reports on wartime correspondence between Myron Taylor, President Franklin Roosevelt's representative to the Holy See, and his British counterpart, Sir D'arcy Osborne in which Osborne expressed his fear that Pius XII would make a radio appeal for Hungarian Jews and criticize Russians for their actions in occupied countries.  Osborne said something should be done to prevail upon the Pope not to do that because Osborne feared such an appeal would have "very serious political repercussions."  This 1944 document lends support to the necessity for balancing any public statements and denunciations with deadly political repercussions which could include Nazi reprisals against Jews.

Dr. Ronald Rychlak, Law Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Mississippi School of Law, found the aforementioned war correspondence, and is quoted extensively by OSV as a primary authority on Pius XII during WWII.  Dr. Rychlak's most recent 2010 book explores fascinating new data implicating the KGB in the cold war disinformation program to discredit the Vatican by besmirching the character and reputation of Pius XII.

Dr. Rychlak is scheduled to speak on these topics  at a Credo Dinner Forum in Clayton, MO on Sunday evening, June 12.

Through My Fault

When the Mea Culpa returns to the penitential rite of the Mass this fall, we will strike our breast three times while saying, "through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault." The association of these physical actions with the words of repentance has been present since Biblical times.

But there is also a good chance that there is a linguistic linkage between the words and the actions, something innate, something closer than traditional practice.

Of the three likely and complementary early Latin sources of the word culpa, one of them, col-tua, means "something to be beaten for." If this is a verbal ancestor of mea culpa (my fault), then it isn't just traditional practice that insists on the striking of the breast. It is the word itself that demands it.

For more on the Confietor, see this WikiPedia article. Note the addition of omissióne (omissions) to the Confietor of the Ordinary Form.

Subsidarity and Solidarity

St. Louis native Timothy Dolan, now Archbishop of New York, muses about the twin pillars of Catholic Social Teaching and politics in this post on his blog.

Brain Death Theory Revisited

The Brain Death Theory was originally proposed, without a single supporting scientific reference, in a 1968 report of  an ad hoc committee at the Harvard Medical School.  Validity of the theory has been seriously challenged over the ensuing years.  Additionally, more recent data , including data made possible by increasingly sophisticated methods for assessing function and awareness, has led leading investigators to the conclusion that "brain death" is not death.  Dr. Robert Truog, professor of medical ethics, anesthesia and pediatrics at Harvard has said in an article entitled, Brain Death: Too Flawed to Endure, Too Ingrained to Abandon, that "Despite continual commentary in the medical literature about the inconsistencies and incoherence of the concept of brain death, medical professionals have had to defend the concept in order not to jeopardize the benefits of organ transplantation."

By way of acknowledging that, not only the brain death theory, but also the 1993 cardiac death theory, is no longer medically supportable, authors of one of several organ transplant articles in the August 14, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine recommend abandoning the "dead donor rule" and substituting patient or surrogate consent for legal removal of vital organs.  In plain language, the legal system and culture would (or already does) condone killing by organ removal in the "right" circumstances.  In such a formulation, the "right" circumstances are said to justify the means.

It's beginning to sound like the unintended consequences of abandoning principle (as in Roe v. Wade?) can be dangerous!

Man Made in the Image of God

The last two installments of the Association of Hebrew Catholics Spring, 2011 lecture series, "Man Made in the Image of God", take place on Wednesday May 25^th and June 1^st in Boland Hall of the Cathedral Basilica from 7-9 PM. The lectures are of general interest to Catholics and presented free of charge by Credo Advisory Board Member Dr. Lawrence Feingold, Assistant Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University's Institute for Pastoral Theology.

This series discusses Christian Anthropology from the natural point of view. The next series to begin this fall takes the supernatural view of man. Each lecture in the series stands alone, but you can retrieve MP3 podcasts of past lectures here.

The lecture notes are being collected into a book series. The first three volumes have already been published by "The Miriam Press", the publishing arm of the AHC, and is local to St. Louis.

Weddings and Marriage

St. Louis' own Colleen Carroll Campbell wonders at the zillions spent by bridezillas who say Yes to the Dress, but "for now" to the groom in a Post-Dispatch article. What are they thinking?

Conclusion: Christian marriage preparation should begin at birth, not at the Pre-Cana meetings. A tall order.

Composer Kevin Allen to Conduct New Mass Setting

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On Sunday, May 22^nd composer Kevin Allen will conduct his newly-composed Missa Rex Splendens at St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis. This new composition will be sung by the Oratory Choir with organ accompaniment. The Mass is based on the Gregorian Chant Mass VII of the same name.

Kevin Allen is highly regarded as a composer of opera, chamber and orchestral music. Mr. Allen has also developed a unique reputation as a composer of church music for the Roman Rite. His works, sacred and secular, have been performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe.

Mr. Allen will be the featured guest on EWTN Live, Wednesday May 25^th at 7:00 PM, repeated on Thursday, May 26^th at midnight and 8 AM, and Sunday, May 29^th at 3 AM. (All times are Central Daylight.) EWTN in St. Louis is on the Charter network channel 152 and on AT&T U-verse channel 562.

There Be Dragons

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The most dangerous place on earth is the human soul. hic sunt dracones "here there be dragons".

There is a new independent film out written and directed by Roland Joffé, a British filmmaker known for directing films having strong moral and religious themes: The Mission, Captivity and The Killing Fields are all his. The Huffington Post called it "The Opus Dei Film That Isn't Really About Opus Dei".

The show closes in St. Louis on Thurday, May 19^th. You can find locations and times at Wherenberg Theaters here.

The Triumph of Humility

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“The Triumph of Humility” is the title of a play written by St. Therese for nuns in her convent in 1896, and it provided her with an opportunity to think about the struggle between good and evil.

“Level 5 Leadership: the Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve” is the title of an insightful article in the July-August, 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review, and that article emphasized the humility factor found in the few unusually successful leaders. Remarkably disparate sources, but both focus on one of life’s most important counter-intuitive facts not commonly recognized, especially in secular literature.

Hitler, the War, and the Pope

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Credo is honored to welcome Professor Ronald Rychlak, author of Hitler, the War, and the Pope to our June 12^th, 2011 Forum. The book was cited by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in its investigation of Eugenio Pacelli, now The Venerable Pope Pius XII, and has been praised as "the best and most careful of the recent works" on the subject of his actions during the war.

Professor Rychlak will trace the life and character of Ven. Pope Pius XII from the Second World War until after his death, highlighting the rescue activities he undertook during the war, credited with saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews.

Peter Kreeft on the Role of the Laity

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What is the role of the laity? Almost everything! Any questions?

That's how the ever-witty Peter Kreeft began his talk at the Washington University Catholic Student Center this past Wednesday evening. Three Credo Board Members were in attendance.

Fast & Abstinence

The very first command God gave the human race was to abstain. — Msgr. Matthew Mitas

The St. Louis Review has begun to put its articles behind a paywall with the explanation that they receive no subsidy from the Archdiocese, relying for all their revenue on subscriptions and advertising, and so if you can't log in, you can't read. If you are a subscriber, log in to the Review website with your subscriber number & zipcode, found on the address block of your last issue of The Review. You can tell your computer to remember your login credentials so that you (theoretically) need do this only once. Then you can read the article.

The policy makes sharing links like this one problematic. There are technical mechanisms they could implement to prevent abuse short of shutting off access entirely. Especially if you are a subscriber, you might write the editor and let him know how the policy impacts the mission.

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The St. Louis Review has a terrific article on Abstinence & Fasting, which may be of particular interest during Lent, but according to the article Catholics should still observe every Friday of the year. The especially zealous might observe Wednesdays too.

Articles of Historical Interest
for the Very Curious

• Abstinence


• Fast


• Black Fast

2011 Day of Recollection

The Oratory of Saints Gregory and Augustine will be the site of the 2011 Credo of the Catholic Laity Day of Recollection from 10:30 a.m. The day ends at 3:30 p.m.

St. Joseph Dinner April 20

Bishop Edward Rice

On Fatherhood

The Catholic Central Union of Missouri and Credo are pleased to present the Frederick P. Kenkel Memorial Lecture for the Feast of St. Joseph, 2011. Register Here!