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Australian Plenary Echoes Fatima’s Last Battle The Australian Church has undertaken a radical and dangerous approach to charting her future, in the form of Plenary 2020, which was instigated by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in 2018. The opinions of thousands of barely-catechised Catholic laypeople and all manner of non-Catholics have been collected and collated and will be presented to the bishops in an effort to illustrate the need for some of the Church’s fundamental teachings to be updated. And perhaps unsurprisingly, in light of the Fatima message, it is the doctrines on marriage, sexuality and the family, as well...

Definition. God the Holy Spirit so supernaturally directed the human writers of Scripture, that without waving their human intelligence, vocabulary, individuality, literary style, personality, personal feelings, or any other human factor, His complete and coherent message to mankind was recorded with perfect accuracy in the original languages of Scripture, the very words bearing the authority of divine authorship. This is called verbal plenary inspiration of the Scripture. Verbal means that the Bible in its original words, from first to last, is the exact record of the mind and will of God as He intended it to be. Plenary means...

If you are looking for an orthodox Catholic appointment calendar, look no farther! This 128-page "week-at-a-glance" appointment calendar: *Lists all the indulgenced works of the Church on a week-by-week basis, *Highlights the twenty-two special days when a partial indulgence becomes plenary to honor a day, *Has scholarly notes on the history of indulgences, *Contains the conditions for earning both partial and plenary indulgences, *Gives the complete text of over nearly two dozen different indulgenced prayers, *Carries weekly reminders for Friday fasts and Saturday confession *Provides the Scriptural supports for one dozen different apologetics topics: The Eucharist, Marian dogma and doctrines,...