It’s officially the heart of ordination season, and our family is attending our usual round of ordination Masses. For the second year in a row, I am sewing a chasuble and stoles for some of my seminarian friends. If you have never sewn a … [Read more...]
Archives for 2019
Saint John Bosco
Spiritual Father and Friend of Penitents
June 18, 2019 by Fr. Charles H. Lana
In the two-thousand year history of the Catholic Church, there have been many priests who have distinguished themselves as renowned confessors. These priests are important models for confessors today to be effective ministers of mercy. This … [Read more...]
Is the Trinity a Mysterious Contradiction or a Rational Mystery?
June 18, 2019 by Reginald Mary Chua, OP
Introduction Consider how central the Trinity is to our faith. We invoke the Trinity at the start and end of every Mass when we make the Sign of the Cross; those of us who pray the Rosary or the Divine Office will invoke the Trinity … [Read more...]
Mary and Prayer
Part III of a Marian Triptych
June 18, 2019 by Francis Etheredge
Mary is not a conceptual counterpoint to Christ, imagined and projected into the Gospels as a kind of semidivine goddess who was made manifest, as it were, in preparation for the coming of the Savior of mankind: a kind of “power of woman” to … [Read more...]
Analogy of Analogies
The Joyful Mysteries as Image of All Human History
June 18, 2019 by Scott Pauline
A great tragedy occurred in salvation history in the so-called Enlightenment. An essential mammoth misfortune for this contrarily darkening age of the world, as well as, for that matter, the general period of thought and ideology between … [Read more...]
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
June 18, 2019 by David Barton
Ever since, in late 2005, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones ruled that the school district of Dover, Pennsylvania, could not mandate material about intelligent design in its science curriculum on evolution (declaring it unconstitutional to … [Read more...]
Questions Answered – June 2019
June 18, 2019 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
Attending a Greek Orthodox Wedding Question: Is it permissible for a Catholic to attend either the ceremony or reception of a Catholic marrying a Greek Orthodox at a Greek Orthodox Mass without a Catholic priest present? Answer: The … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – June 2019
June 18, 2019 by Book Reviews
The Catholic Writer Today and Other Essays By Dana Gioia. Reviewed by Ken Colombini. (skip to review) Raymond E. Brown and the Catholic Biblical Renewal By Fr. Donald E. Senior. Reviewed by Rev. John P. Cush, STD. (skip to … [Read more...]
Homilies for June 2019
June 1, 2019 by Rev. John P. Cush, STD
June 2 (7th Sunday or Ascension), Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi, and June 30. Ascension, or Sunday in Easter – June 2, 2019 Seventh Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 7:55–60 • Ps 97:1–2, 6–7, 9 • Rev 22:12–14, 16–17, 20 • J … [Read more...]
The Color Pink and Abortion Glee
Toward Comprehending the Incomprehensible Events in New York on January 22, 2019
May 31, 2019 by Roseanne T. Sullivan
For many decades in most parts of the U.S., at least since the 1940s, the color pink was associated with girl babies and cute girly things. In 2017, feminists started wearing cat-eared pink hats as obscene symbols for women’s “rights.” With … [Read more...]
“Power Evangelization”
A Catholic and Carmelite Perspective
May 31, 2019 by Dr. Elizabeth Salas
I. Introduction “Power evangelization” (hereafter, “PE”) is a rapidly growing trend in charismatic Catholic circles. It can be defined as “evangelizing through signs and wonders,” and promotes the practice of miracle-working by laity and re … [Read more...]
“This Is My Body”
Ronald Knox on the Real Presence and Transubstantiation
May 31, 2019 by Fr. Charles Fox
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi proclaims the truth that the Incarnate Son of God, having ascended to His Father’s right hand in heaven, remains present and active in His Church “until the end of the age” (Mt 28:20). The truth of Chris … [Read more...]
Our Hope in Mary
Part II of a Marian Triptych
May 31, 2019 by Francis Etheredge
[1. This piece first appeared as part III of chapter nine of volume III of a trilogy called From Truth and truth: Volume III-Faith is Married Reason (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), 57–66; the present version is, h … [Read more...]
A Man’s Relationship with the Girl Who Ravished the Eyes of God Himself
May 31, 2019 by Keith Berube
Introduction During Advent of 2018 I wrote an article for Homiletic and Pastoral Review called “Mary Is Made for You.”[1. Keith Berube, “Mary Is Made for You,” at Homiletic and Pastoral Review (Dec. 20, 2018), hprweb. … [Read more...]
A Forthright Faith
May 31, 2019 by Carolyn Humphreys, OCDS
In his book Conversion, Donald Haggerty relates the following story: Toward the close of the Spanish Civil War, two soldiers from the Communist Republican faction were returning to their barracks after a night of drinking and cavorting … [Read more...]
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