Lent:
Discipline and History (CUF Faith Fact) How did Lent arise? What is its current discipline,
and what is its history?
Daily
Penance, Days of Penance (CUF Faith Fact) What does the Church teach about daily penance? What
are the days of penance, and how ought Catholics to observe
them?
Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini
(1966), which governs the penitential discipline of the
Church
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' (now the
USCCB), Pastoral
Statement on Penance and Abstinence (1966),
which applies that universal discipline to the United States
and offers recommendations for Lent.
From Our Founder
Our organization inescapably (and willingly) gets involved in the various
problems of the Church in which the laity have a responsibility-in areas
such as sex education, catechetics, etc. But all we are and all we do is
based on the primacy of the spiritual, on the “better part” of a genuine,
inner spiritual renewal, and on the belief that for all soldiers of Christ
the first and constant battlefield must be our own hearts.
H. Lyman Stebbins
July 29, 1974
CATHOLICS UNITED FOR THE FAITH
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Steubenville, OH 43952
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