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Featured Term (selected at random):SUNDAY OBSERVANCE The Catholic equivalent of the divine commandment to keep the Sabbath holy. In general, Sunday observance means assisting at Mass and resting from servile work. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

I've never posted on here. Hope I do this right. The health care amounts to taking all our freedom's. Go to ER with a gun shot wound/Gun control, knife wound/knife ban. I'm so enraged that we aren't being listened to by the very people we elected. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) voted for health care. Call's herself a moderate. Moderate. I think not. I will never, ever vote for a demoRat ever again. Not in our County or State. Never! I almost can see what the Jew's and Polish must have felt. All I'm seeing left for any of us...is to organize...

With many large churches across the U.S. announcing they won't be open on Christmas Day, some pastors are defending their decision to stay closed, even going so far as to blast those who question their motives. Among them is Jon Weece, pastor of Southland Christian Church in Lexington, Ky., who received complaint e-mails from Christians in all 50 states. "I was deeply saddened by the knee-jerk response of the Christian community as a whole to give the benefit of the doubt to the media and not a church or a brother in Christ," Weece said in his Dec. 10 sermon....

How did Sunday Keeping Begin? How did the change from Saturday to Sunday come about in early Christianity? Did Jesus change the day of worship to Sunday or did the apostles or someone else? Author's BackgroundDr. Samuele Bacchiocchi grew up as a Seventh-day Adventist in Rome, Italy, a stone-throw from the Vatican wall in the days when considerable hostility existed against religious minorities. He vividly remembers the ridicule and rejection he experienced, especially for honoring the Savior on the Sabbath. For example, his classmates called him "Il Giudeo-the Jew," or "L'eretico-the heretic" because he would not attend school on Saturday...

Romans 14:1-9 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One...