The church’s organ blared suddenly, shrilly, and discordantly that morning in 1961. Its unholy cacophony startled the fifteen Saint Rita’s parishioners from their quiet All Souls Day devotions, and they instinctively turned to look up at the choir loft in the rear of the building to see who was profaning their worship. What they ...
Visiting Purgatory Chasm in Sutton, MA is a wonderful outdoor adventure waiting for you and your family pretty much year round. I first visited Purgatory Chasm when I was about 10 years old, as part of a day trip with a neighboring family. It was exciting then and surprisingly, now decades later, it remains an ...
Butterflies are very colorful and the way they softly and gently fly into the air is simply magnificent. A lot of people love butterflies and they let butterflies stay in their gardens, have preserved displays of butterflies, or for special events such as birthdays or weddings, they give butterfly favors. But apart from the beauty ...
By the 16th century, the immense wealth that the church derived from its great political power had begun to corrupt it. Many began joining the clergy for less than purely religious reasons and many members of the clergy, popes included, succumbed to greed and immorality. The Catholic church of the 15th and 16th centuries was ...
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