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Thursday, April 03, 2014
Pope Francis' Catholic Truth
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Pope Francis' Prayer Intentions For April 2014
Vatican
City, 31 March 2014 (VIS) - Pope Francis' universal prayer intention
for April is: "That governments may foster the protection of
creation and the just distribution of natural resources".
His
intention for evangelisation is: "That the Risen Lord may fill
with hope the hearts of those who are being tested by pain and
sickness".
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
New web site encourages Catholics toward frequent Confession : News Headlines - Catholic Culture
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- The evangelical group Catholics Come Home has launched a new web site, GoodConfession.com, encouraging more frequent use of sacrament of Reconciliation.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
Theological Virtue of Hope in Hardship | 2nd Sunday in Lent | The Call of Abraham | Transfiguration on Mount Tabor -Welcome to The Crossroads Initiative
The following excerpts are from Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio's "The Crossroads Initiative":
- Imagine: you are ten years past customary retirement age. It’s time finally to kick back and relax. You live in a great city where everything is at your fingertips – shopping opportunities, cultural events, all your relatives and lifelong friends. Suddenly God appears and tells you to pack up, uproot your life, and march into an uncivilized wilderness.
- This is what happens to Abram in Genesis 12. He lives in Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization. He’s 75 and he and the wife are not getting any younger. He does not even know the name of the God who calls him.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
From The Dignitatis Humanae Institute: Nigeria's Islamic militants: a cancer that risks metastasising (and the world turns away)
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following is a press release from The
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Rome,
26 February 2014
As
the Christian community of Nigeria suffers two large-scale terror
attacks in the course of a week, Luca Volontè, Chairman of the
Dignitatis
Humanae Institute, spoke of his outrage at the
disregard displayed by Western governments:
"For
four years, Boko Haram has conducted a campaign of mass slaughter and
wanton destruction. Like a cancer, their reach and influence has been
allowed to spread unchecked, the number of innocents dead now ranges
in the thousands, the extent of property and communities destroyed
incalculable. While European officials rush to Kiev to take
undeserved credit for the hard-won liberty of Ukraine's people, they
seemingly ignore the suffering of those in Nigeria.
As
has repeatedly been made clear by Nigerian officials, the domestic
security and military services lack the expertise to conduct an
effective counter-insurgency campaign. As it was in Mali, it is our
duty to give our full support to the besieged communities and make
available any means that they so require."
Last
week saw Boko Haram (which means "Western education is a sin")
conduct two attacks on predominantly Christian towns - Bama and Igze
- the latter of which had only been attacked three weeks previously.
With the use of sophisticated military hardware, the Islamist
attackers destroyed public buildings, burned Churches and killed over
one hundred people in each attack. The savagery and scale of the
raids further demonstrates the inability of Nigeria's security forces
to prevent the murderous campaign of Boko Haram, despite a State of
Emergency already being in place.
In
a statement unlikely to give much solace to the besieged population
of Nigeria, US Ambassador James Entwistle pointed the finger to
underlying social causes for the rise of Islamist terrorism,
including the 'lack of employment opportunity' and 'the education
system.' Luca Volontè retorted:
"Given
their expressed desire to enforce an Islamic state upon all, ruled by
Sharia Law in its entirety; I doubt that tinkering with the nations'
employment opportunities or the education system is likely to
convince Boko Haram to give up its weapons. Rather than blaming a
suffering society for the intent of their attackers, it is imperative
that all unequivocally reject the agenda of Boko Haram. As we have
seen in Sri Lanka, with the right conviction and the necessary means,
terror groups can be suppressed and the rule of law restored."
The
Dignitatis
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to uphold human dignity based on the anthropological truth that man
is born in the image and likeness of God and therefore has an innate
human dignity of infinite worth to be upheld. The Institute promotes
this understanding by supporting Christians in public life, assisting
them to present effective and coherent responses to increasing
efforts to silence the Christian voice in the public square.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
I Need A Prayer Umbrella
Are
you familiar with the old saying, "when it rains it pours"?
Well,
it has definitely been pouring for me. Again
About
a week ago this past Friday, I noticed a small bump on the inside of
my upper right leg, when my pants rubbing against it brought it to my
attention. It began growing larger by the hour (or so it seemed), and
then the next day there was also one high on the back of my left leg.
I
ran a fever on the Sunday night following, and had to call out of
work the next day. I called my doctor, and had an appointment on
Wednesday. It turned out that I had 2 boils.
The
one on the right leg was about the size of a golf ball, and had
started to drain. The other is still there, and has not changed yet.
The
doctor did a swab of the drainage, and it turns out that I have a
staph infection. Lovely.
And
to make it even more lovely, this staph infection is what is known as
MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which in layman's
terms, means that it is resistant to certain antibiotics, which
include the penicillins and the cephalosporins.
My
doctor prescribed 2 antibiotics, one is Doxicycline Hyclate, and the
other is Cephalexin.
So,
after 2 doctor visits (with a third coming up Friday), missing 8 days
of work, and several antibiotic doses later, I would once again
appreciate your prayers.
I
will tell you this. As much as these boils have hurt, if I had been
the Pharaoh, and I had been afflicted with boils, that would have
been enough for me to let Moses and the Hebrew people
go.
I
wouldn't wish these things on my worst enemy!
Thank
you all for your prayers.
May
God Bless you all!
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Monday, February 10, 2014
New poll underlines divisions among Catholics : News Headlines - Catholic Culture
The following excerpts are from CWN:
- A new survey of Catholics, conducted by the Spanish-language Univision network, has shown sharp differences among self-identified Catholics, and widespread dissent from Church teachings.
- The poll showed that Catholics in developing countries were more likely than their European and American counterparts to accept Church teachings on controversial issues such as homosexuality and contraception. The poll found, for example, that 99% of African respondents oppose same-sex marriage, while in the US only 40% do. Only 30% of the Catholics in Europe accept the Church teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood, while in Africa 80% accept it.
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Please Read This
Read this post "Urgent Prayer Request For My Good Friend Wanda". After you read it, please pray, and share it with your family, friends, relatives, priests, religious, and anyone that you can think of
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Sunday, February 02, 2014
We must stand up for Middle East's persecuted Christians | Fox News
The following excerpts are from the Opinion section of FoxNews.com:
- Christianity began in the East, not the West, yet today Christians in the East are enduring an all-out-assault by Islamic terrorists, while Christians in the West live their lives largely oblivious to it all. This has to change.
- This is no imaginary persecution; in Syria alone there have been reports of kidnappings, Christian communities intentionally displaced by militants and, worst of all, shootings and beheadings of Christians who refused to convert to Islam.
- In Egypt radicals have recently destroyed dozens of churches, and the once vibrant Christian population in Iraq has been decimated.
- Christians in the West should stand up for those in the East out of regard for all they have given us over these thousands of years, if for no other reason.
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Saturday, February 01, 2014
Pope Francis' Prayer Intentions For February 2014
The Pope's universal prayer intention for February 2014 is"That the Church and society may respect the wisdom and experience of older people".
His prayer intention for evangelization is "That priests, religious, and lay people may work together with generosity for evangelization".
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Saint Michael the Archangel Prayer
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Former sedevacantist nuns form new religious community in California : News Headlines - Catholic Culture
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- A new women’s religious community, the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa, has taken root in northern California with the approval of Bishop Robert Vasa.
- The community, led by a formerly sedevacantist nun, emphasizes fidelity to the papacy, Eucharistic adoration, Marian devotion, and liturgical worship in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman liturgy. The sisters’ apostolate includes Catholic education and catechesis.
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Thank You!
I
want to thank all of you who prayed for me, and who were so generous
with your donations!
I
was able to get my power bill paid, and I am greatly relieved to say
the least!
God
is good, and I ask His blessings for all of you!
Thank
you again, so very much!
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
A True Personal Story
My mom, from a photo taken in 1993 |
This
is just a personal story that I would like to share with all of you.
My
mother, passed away in November of 1995, after a long 4 year battle
with rectal/colon cancer. She was first diagnosed with this terrible
disease in 1991. After what seemed like success against this disease,
it reappeared in the spring of 1995, and became worse day by day.
When my mother was told that there was nothing else the doctors could
do, she asked that we get in touch with Howard Shockley, a
Presbyterian minister whom we came to know during my dad's illness
due to a malignant brain tumor. Howard himself had been diagnosed
with a brain tumor when he was in his late teens, and he had promised
God, that if He would heal him, he would go into the ministry. God
heard his prayers, and Howard was healed.
So,
my brothers and I contacted Howard, and being the good Christian man
that he is, he came to visit my mother, and continued to do so on a
regular basis, sometimes coming by as many as 5 days a week. On his
first visit, he had decided that he was going to give my mother a
Bible verse to memorize, and that he would give her a new one to
memorize each week. That first, and as it turned out, only Bible
verse, was from Philippians 4:13- "I can do all things through
Christ, which strengtheneth me."
You
would not believe the amount of faith my mother placed in that one
verse. It became her all purpose verse, if one can claim such a thing
for any one Bible verse. She placed so much faith in it, that Howard
later said that it became a blessing for him, and he decided there
was no need to bring her any others to learn.
One
of the last times that she was in the hospital, she was having a very
difficult time being helped in and out of bed. She had weakened to
the point, that she did not have the strength to get up without help,
and she experienced a good bit of pain from being gotten up, and then
helped back into bed. She would be literally exhausted afterward. I
was in her room, spending the day there with her, and she knew she
they would soon be coming to help her out of the chair, and back into
bed. She was dreading it, because she knew how tired it made her, and
how much it hurt. She looked at me, and she said, "Steve, pray
for me. Pray for God to help me. Ask Him to help me, so that it
doesn't hurt, and so that I won't be worn out". So, I prayed,
and as I prayed, my mother's eyes were closed, her hands stretched
over her face, as she repeated over and over again, "I can do
all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me". Just as we
finished our prayer, they came to get her out of the chair, and into
bed. They put a strap around her waist, to enable them to help her
up. When the time to make the attempt came, she came up out of that
chair as if it was nothing at all, and got into that bed with no pain
or trouble at all. None! One of her nurses made a comment about how
that time it had been so easy, and mom told the nurse, "it was
because we prayed".
Just
3 weeks later, my mom had gone into a coma at home, and my two
younger brothers, Mike and Randy, were staying at home with us. We
would be taking mom to the Solace Center at Mountain Area Hospice the
next day, and none of us was looking forward to it as you can
imagine, because we all knew mom would be leaving home for the last
time.
We
had been sitting up talking, sitting up late, in fact. I guess we
thought we could ward that time off , keep it from coming too
quickly, if we stayed awake rather than sleep. Mike decided he wanted
something to read, and he found a book, called “The Bible In My
Everyday Life”. It had not been taken down off the bookshelf in
many years.
Now,
that old book had belonged to an aunt who had died at a very young
age. It was written in 1932. She had used it somewhat like a Family
Bible, recording births, deaths, and other events in it. Mike handed
it to me to show me something that was written in it. After looking
at what he wanted me to see, I noticed that in the back of the book,
it listed every day of the year, and that it gave a Bible verse for
each day. I looked at the Bible verse for each of our family's
birthdays, and then decided to look at the verse for the next day,
which was November 7. Do you know what that verse was? "I can do
all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me".
Now,
I was a little bit surprised to say the least. I showed it to Mike,
and he had a total look of shock on his face as well. I now know, I
should not have been surprised. I know that Mike being led to choose
this book was no accident, even though some narrow minded people
might think it purely coincidence, I know it was purely a blessing.
For when we were at a point, when we were sure that all was lost,
that it was just us alone, facing this hard time, God was telling us,
"I am here. I have not forsaken you. I will be with you, and I
will be with your mother".
So,
no matter what happens to you, to your loved ones, or to anyone else
that you know, remember, God is with us always in everything, and in
every way. And remember this verse, "I can do all things through
Christ, which strengtheneth me". I know He
strengthened us.
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Ex-Catholics....
Did
They Ever Know The Faith?
Being
a person who works in retail with the public, you meet all kinds of
people. Some, who are regular customers even become good friends/
Some are just people you see every day.
Inevitably,
among the people you meet, something or another will lead to a talk
about faith, and I am not shy about telling folks I am a convert to
Catholicism. Some see all Christians as brothers in Christ, and some
see Catholics and Protestants in a state of constant opposition as to
what is the truth. (To those I say, Jesus Christ is the Truth, and
that is all the Truth any of us should be concerning ourselves with.)
Some
Protestants are taken aback, when I suggest that they visit a
Catholic Church, and find out for themselves if what they have been
told by their pastors, neighbors or friends about the Catholic Church
is factual. Many, if not most, act as if I had suggested they walk
barefoot across a bed of hot coals.
I
have heard several ideas of what Catholics believe, where I have had
to restrain myself from smirking, if not laughing out loud. For
instance, one man, in all seriousness and with sincerity, asked me if
I belonged to the branch of Catholics that believes in Jesus Christ,
or to the branch of Catholics that doesn't.
So,
I try to explain things, and hopefully help them to better
understand.
Then
on occasion, I come across, someone who will boldly proclaim to me
(as well as to others whom I know) that they are an "ex-Catholic"
who found a church that believes in the Bible, and where they also
found Jesus Christ as their "personal Lord and Savior" at
some denomination or another, and then proceed to tell me what is
"wrong" with the Catholic Church.
Every
time one of the ex-Catholics starts telling me what is "wrong"
with the Church, I consistently find that there is not
something "wrong" with the Church, but there is
something wrong with their understanding of what the Church is,
and what she teaches.
One
of these is, that they don't “need to confess my sins to a man”
but that they confess to Jesus through prayer, and receive
forgiveness from Him.
I
tell them that Catholics also ask for forgiveness in prayer, and that
when we go to confession, we are confessing to Jesus through the
priest who is physically before us in Christ's place. Christ hears
our confession through the priest, and when the priest gives us
absolution, he is following the teaching of Christ from Holy
Scripture: "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven
them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."
-- John 20,23.
They
will usually follow this with, we just don't need to confess to men.
I then tell them that since their church follows the Bible so
closely, then they confess their sins to each other? I'll get a
strange look usually and I quote James 5,16:"Confess
therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that
you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth
much."
The
worst one I have ever heard though, was where a self described
ex-Catholic told a friend of mine that he stopped being Catholic
because “Catholics believe that the Pope is Jesus Christ on earth”.
I couldn't keep quiet, and told him no, he had it wrong. Catholics
believe that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, he is the visible head
of Christ's Church on earth, who acts for and in the place of Christ.
Any
way, the thing I keep seeing again and again, seems to answer my
question, i.e., “did they ever know the faith?” It is all
too apparent that these people were just nominal Catholic's and never
understood, nor ever bothered to try to learn about the
Church and it's teaching.
I
don't want to sound as all knowing, or as “another knows it all
convert”, but I am thinking, shouldn't catechesis be a continual,
ongoing part of our faith? Not just in the parish, where this should
be happening, but, also ideally in the home, and within the community
of the faithful as well.
Teaching
the faith is like growing a garden. We don't plant the seeds, and
then think the job is finished, complete. We plant the seeds, and
then we water, fertilize, hoe, weed, and prune, so that we have a
garden that grows, becomes stronger, and is fruitful.
After
all, we are all called to share the faith, and we all can learn
something new as revealed to us by the Holy Spirit as we mature in
our faith, and help others to mature in theirs.
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Monday, December 09, 2013
From The Dignitatis Humanae Institute: "When Doctors Get it Wrong: The Tragedy of Aborting Healthy Babies"
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9 December 2013
Shocking
revelations from Britain of a mother giving birth to a perfectly
healthy girl - after being advised by doctors to abort what they
wrongly diagnosed to be a brain damaged baby, has called into
question the quality and competence of medical counselling offered to
pregnant mothers.
Speaking
from his office in Rome, veteran Italian politician Luca Volontè,
Honorary President of the European People's Party in the Council of
Europe's Parliamentary Assembly and Dignitatis
Humanae Institute
Chairman, stated:
"This
situation is tragic but sadly not surprising. In what must be a time
of terrible anguish for the parents, all efforts must be made to
offer extensive information and a variety of opinions - such neutral
advice does not exist in Britain, nor in many other European
countries. Companies such as Marie Stopes International are referred
to for counselling directly by the NHS, while other genuinely
independent organisations such as disability groups - those without a
financial interest in selling abortions - are prevented from doing
so.
"This
particular case also demonstrates the subjective reasoning being made
by medical staff on what constitutes 'life worthy of living' - a
value judgement that many patients will often believe to be
infallible , but as this case shows, patients should not be afraid to
assert their autonomy on the best course of action."
Liane
and Ian Stooke from Bristol were told by doctors their baby would
suffer from severe brain damage and have little to no ability of
recognition, communication or movement. Liane was already 30 weeks
pregnant - beyond the normal limit for abortion - when doctors pushed
for termination, stating her baby would not enjoy a meaningful life.
"The doctor said it wasn't too late if we wanted to abort the
baby - he made it sound almost as if there was no other option,"
said Mrs Stooke. Thankfully for baby Miley, Ian and Liane chose to
defy such encouragements and proceed with the pregnancy, only to
discover their daughter was perfectly healthy and suffered from none
of the afflictions predicted by doctors.
Luca
Volontè concluded:
"Evidently
the support structure in place for parents in this position is not
fit for purpose. How many times has this occurred? Why aren't such
figures even recorded? Sadly, in 2011, the British Parliament
rejected proposals from Nadine Dorries MP to increase the range of
opinion and expertise available to pregnant mothers for counselling.
I can only offer sympathy to all would-be parents across the world,
who having aborted their own child under similar advice, now have to
live with the doubt of what might have been, the doubt that they
entirely unnecessarily terminated their longed-for son or daughter."
The
Dignitatis
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to uphold human dignity based on the anthropological truth that man
is born in the image and likeness of God and therefore has an innate
human dignity of infinite worth to be upheld. The Institute promotes
this understanding by supporting Christians in public life, assisting
them to present effective and coherent responses to increasing
efforts to silence the Christian voice in the public square.
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Monday, November 04, 2013
Largest massacre of Christians in Syrian conflict : News Headlines - Catholic Culture
The following excerpts are from CatholicCulture's Catholic World News:
- Rebel forces massacred 45 Christians in the west-central Syrian town of Sadad, according to Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh.
- Islamist rebels entered the town on October 21; a week later, it was captured by government forces.
- “What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria in the past two years and a half,” said the prelate, according to the Fides news service. “45 innocent civilians were martyred for no reason, and among them several women and children, many thrown into mass graves. Other civilians were threatened and terrorized. 30 were wounded and 10 are still missing.”
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Friday, November 01, 2013
Pope Francis' Prayer Intentions For November 2013
Vatican City, 31 October 2013 (VIS) – Pope Francis' prayer intention for November is: “That priests who experience difficulties may find comfort in their suffering, support in their doubts, and confirmation in their fidelity”.
His mission intention is: “That as fruit of the continental mission, Latin American Churches may send missionaries to other Churches”.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Yes, Virginia, I Do Have A Blog Roll
Some
long time readers and followers of "Faith of the Fathers Blogs"
are probably familiar with the items in our sidebars. However, many
who only read the blog posts with a feed/news reader or a mobile
device (such as an iPhone) never see the sidebar items (which is why
you should visit us with a computer occasionally) at all.
In
particular, I want to call your attention to the sidebar item (on the
right hand side bar) "MY FAVORITE BLOGS (LISTED BY MOST
RECENT POST)". This is more or less a blog roll, where I
link to some good, solid Catholic blogs and bloggers
that you may not be aware of, and would find good reading (when your
not here, that is) and good information as well.
The
two newest additions are the Catholic apologist Tim Staples, and his
blog, appropriately entitled, "Tim
Staples", and Father Tim Finigan's blog, "The
hermeneutic of continuity". Both are well worth the time
to read, as are all the blogs listed there quite frankly..
There
are also a lot of well known blogs and bloggers listed here as well
as some well known Catholics whom you may not have been aware of as
also having blogs.
These
include Timothy Cardinal Dolan's "The
Gospel In The Digital Age"; Father Robert Barron's "Word
On Fire"; Father John Zuhlsdorf's "Fr.
Z's Blog" (formerly called "What Does the Prayer
Really Say?"); Priests for Life's "Father
Frank Pavone's Blog"; Father Juan Velez's (author of
"Passion For Truth: The Life of John Henry Newman) blog
"Cardinal
John Henry Newman"; Jimmy Akin's blog, “Jimmy
Akin”; Sofia Guerra's “Always
Catholic”; Lisa Graas' “Catholic
Bandita”; Taylor Marshall's “Taylor
Marshall”; and more than I have time to post about here.
As
I said, all have great posts, not just the ones
I mentioned here, but all of them that are in "MY
FAVORITE BLOGS (LISTED BY MOST RECENT POST)" on the right
hand sidebar. Give their stats a boost and visit them all. You won't
regret it!
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Assyrian Christian Leader Welcomes Chaldean Catholic Patriarch's Overture
The following excerpts are from AINA.org:
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Assyrian Christian Leader Welcomes Chaldean Catholic Patriarch's Overture
- Mar Dinkha IV, the head of the Assyrian Church of the East since 1976, has responded positively to an ecumenical overture by Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church since February.
- The Assyrian Church of the East, now headquartered in Illinois, ceased to be in full communion with the Holy See following the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Chaldean Catholic Church, headquartered in Baghdad, arose in the sixteenth century when some Assyrian bishops sought the restoration of full communion with the Roman Pontiff. Each Eastern church has approximately 400,000 members.
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