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MORE HELP FINDING STUFF (especially for travelers):
Finding Archdiocese & Diocese Info
· Finding Local
Parishes & Mass Schedules
Finding
Local Eucharistic Adoration · Finding
Local Fellowship Groups
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Finding Archdiocese & Diocese Info
For
general information about the
various dioceses, parishes and Catholic schools worldwide,
visit the site link below:
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/qview.html
Finding Local Parishes & Mass Schedules
If
you are travelling, and need to find the
locations and times of the nearest Holy Mass,
the site link below should help:
http://www.masstimes.org
...If you are seeking a Latin Mass specifically,
use the following link:
http://www.traditio.com/nat.htm
...If you are
seeking a 'LifeTeen' Mass specifically,
use the following link:
http://www.lifeteen.org/default.aspx?PageID=PRFIND
Finding Local Eucharistic Adoration
If
you need to find the locations and times of
the nearest parish offering Eucharistic Adoration,
see the following site link:
http://www.therealpresence.org/chap_fr.htm
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Legatus offers a unique support network of
like-minded Catholics
who influence the world marketplace and have the ability to practice and infuse
their faith
in the daily lives and workplaces of their family, friends, colleagues and
employees.
They spread the faith by good example, good deeds and high ethical standards.
Catholic Executives is dedicated to the celebration of the
Catholic and Christian faith in the workplace and your everyday life.
On this site you will find links to Catholic businesses, organizations and
services,
as well as advice and links to Catholic publications and media that will
inspire and assist you in the practice of your faith in the workplace.
Catholic
Worker Movement
- lay community committed to non-violence, prayer, social justice
and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken
Saint
Egidio Community
- a lay movement devoted to peace & justice.
Aid to the Church in Need
- helps persecuted Catholics around the world.
Beckett
Fund for Religious Liberty
- legal advocacy for religious expression.
Your
Catholic Voice
- political action on Catholic issues of life, family, and social justice.
Catholic
Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)
- advocate for families and human dignity at the U.N.
Family
Research Council
- public advocacy on behalf of families.
Institute for Marriage and Public Policy
- aspires to be the main place for the same-sex marriage debate.
Catholic
Relief Services
- humanitarian & disaster relief.
Elliott
Institute
- leading researcher on how abortion harms women.
Food
for the Poor
- church-based international relief for the poor
Holy Cross International Justice Office
- info about globalization and its effects on the poor, local cultures, and the
environment.
Joan
B. Kroc Institute for Int'l Peace Studies
- the causes of violence and the conditions for sustainable peace.
Woodstock Theological Center
- peace and social justice think-tank.
National
Catholic Bioethics Center
- bioethics and the dignity of the human person.
Do
No Harm
- promotes medical advancements that avoid destroying unborn human life.
Population
Research Institute
- fights human rights abuses against women and families.
Protection
Project
- fights the global trafficking and exploitation of persons, especially women
and children.
The New Atlantis
- a journal of technology and society, published by the Ethics & Public
Policy Center.
World
Youth Alliance
- promotes the dignity of the human person worldwide.
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As is echoed gloriously in the Holy Mass, it is
God who has "formed the noble nature of man."
This in itself is a high calling to which all
Catholics must aspire, and we could always use a little help from one another
along the way. Holy Scripture tells us "as iron sharpens iron, so one man
sharpens another."1 Those of us who are fathers also have the
responsibility to "bring up [our] children in the ways and instruction of
the Lord."2
First and foremost, this association of and for
Catholic gentlemen is intended to foster and promote holiness; "a more
intimate unity between the everyday life of its members and their faith"
3; the faith in full, as interpreted by the Church’s Magisterium, and in
which we must commit "in loyal readiness, to embrace all doctrinal
teachings and pastoral initiatives of both our Pope and our Bishop."4
Pope John Paul II requested that we, as lay
members of Christ’s faithful people, "take an active, conscientious and
responsible part in the mission of the Church"5 and "keep
a watchful eye on our world, . . . [as to its] economic, social, political and
cultural affairs"6 because "the Laity, by their very
vocation, seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and ordering
them according to the plan of God."7 We are to accomplish this,
he says, by "imbuing culture and human activity with genuine moral values
. . . [to] better prepare the field of the world for the seed of the Word of
God."8
1. Proverbs
27:17.
2. Ephesians 6:4.
3.
4. The Lay Members of Christ’s
Faithful People, Christifideles Laici, 30.
5. Ibid., 3.
6. Ibid., 3.
7.
8. Ibid., 36.
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