The valid material of the Eucharistic host is unadulterated wheat reduced to flour, diluted with natural water, and baked with fire.

Matt 3:12 - "His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

Meanwhile, many American Catholics have told the new pope in no uncertain terms that he'd better snap to it.
"All I know is, something better give," said Mark Venkman, spokesman for Lighten Up, Catholics!, an organization of sort-of Catholic laypeople who have grown disenchanted with the church the more it gets on their case. "If they're not careful, we'll stop going to church.
"Um ... I mean, on Easter and Christmas Eve, too."

Thou hast seen the measure of obedience, hear also the measure of love. Wouldest thou have thy wife obedient unto thee, as the Church is to Christ? Take then thyself the same provident care for her, as Christ takes for the Church. Yea, even if it shall be needful for thee to give thy life for her, yea, and to be cut into pieces ten thousand times, yea, and to endure and undergo any suffering whatever,-refuse it not.

Though thou shouldest undergo all this, yet wilt thou not, no, not even then, have done anything like Christ. For thou indeed art doing it for one to whom thou art already knit; but He for one who turned her back on Him and hated Him. In the same way then as He laid at His feet her who turned her back on Him, who hated, and spurned, and disdained Him, not by menaces, nor by violence, nor by terror, nor by anything else of the kind, but by his unwearied affection; so also do thou behave thyself toward thy wife.

Yea, though thou see her looking down upon thee, and disdaining, and scorning thee, yet by thy great thoughtfulness for her, by affection, by kindness, thou wilt be able to lay her at thy feet. For there is nothing more powerful to sway than these bonds, and especially for husband and wife. A servant, indeed, one will be able, perhaps, to bind down by fear; nay not even him, for he will soon start away and be gone.

But the partner of one's life, the mother of one's children, the foundation of one's every joy, one ought never to chain down by fear and menaces, but with love and good temper. For what sort of union is that, where the wife trembles at her husband? And what sort of pleasure will the husband himself enjoy, if he dwells with his wife as with a slave, and not as with a free-woman? Yea, though thou shouldest suffer anything on her account, do not upbraid her; for neither did Christ do this. (link)

That is a vital key to understanding Marian dogmas: They're always about some vital truth concerning Jesus, the nature of the Church, or the nature of the human person.

"It's a minor sin,"

Inside, the church will be divided into two main areas: A gathering space
just within the main doors where congregants can hold special events or simply
meet informally with one another before entering the worship space for Mass.
The gathering space will feature a "living wall" draped in foliage over
which a thin layer of water will constantly flow. The living wall is designed
to improve the quality of incoming air and purify the air when a congregation
is using the gathering space, the worship space, or both.

"I'm really glad it's in English now so I can know what's being said. However, any way the church can reach out with an acceptable liturgy to expand people's relationship with God, that's great."

I Can't Wait --

Listen (WM)

I was checking out the popular baby names statistics on the Social Security administration website. According to the stats on the website, the name Mary was the most popular girl name from the 1880's to the 1950's. I was surprised to see that Mary was the most popular name for 70 years. The name started to drop in popularity in the 60's and has been falling since. So far this decade it is ranking 50th in popularity. I wonder if this decreasing popularity in the name is due to fewer people honoring the Blessed Mother. Here is the link.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/