A shortcut to hope For a priest it is always heartening when a woman shares the news that she is expecting a baby, and asks for prayers for her and her new child at Mass. Motherhood is always a source of hope. An expectant mother embodies … [Read more...]
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“Rejoicing in Hope” with Mary
Marian Devotion as Remedy to Secularist Hopelessness
December 30, 2024 by Fr. Donncha Ó. hAodha
Perseverance in Ministry: Lessons from Saint Peter Faber for Discouraging Times
December 30, 2024 by Rev. Philip Smith
The Catholic Church in Germany was a total mess. Prelates were more interested in secular affairs and maintaining their own comfort than actually worshipping Jesus or sharing his teachings. When they did preach and engage in “spiritual” or “ … [Read more...]
Priests Who Cry Wolf
November 27, 2024 by Fr. Anthony Hollowell
History shows that, when preaching about the end of the world, zealous and holy priests have not always been prudent priests. Take, for example, the preaching of Saint Gregory the Great. He lived in an era that many of his contemporaries … [Read more...]
The Flavor of God: On Cooking and Christian Materialism
November 27, 2024 by Jason Openo
“Our Lord moves amidst the pots and pans,” St. Teresa of Avila once said, and indeed, I often find God in a busy kitchen. I love cooking, once described to me as the art of redistributing water, which is simply a very clever way of saying th … [Read more...]
Liturgical Leadership According to Pope Francis’ Desiderio Desideravi
November 27, 2024 by Mariusz Biliniewicz
The purpose of this article is to present a vision of liturgical leadership that can be found on the pages of Pope Francis’ apostolic letter Desiderio Desideravi (2022) (henceforth DD, available on the Vatican website). The context of t … [Read more...]
The Eucharist and the Call to Witness
A Biblical Reflection on the Sacraments of Initiation
November 27, 2024 by Fr. Michael McGourty
Every year the Biblical readings that are proclaimed in the Church’s liturgy throughout the Lenten and Easter seasons recount the dramatic transformation that takes place in the lives of Christ’s first disciples and followers as they wit … [Read more...]
Assenting to Fiducia Supplicans
October 24, 2024 by Dcn. Tracy Jamison, OCDS
At some point in my spiritual pilgrimage to the full communion of the Catholic Church from an Evangelical Protestant upbringing, it became apparent to me that the only way that I could infallibly believe the deposit of divinely revealed … [Read more...]
On the Need to Focus on a Catholic Theologate
October 24, 2024 by David Francis Sherwood
At the Catholic World Report in May and June of 2023, there was an exciting exchange between Drs. Larry Chapp, Matthew Minerd, and Richard DeClue.[1. See, in order of publication, Larry Chapp, “The Progressive Revolution’s Continued Control … [Read more...]
The Absolute Moral Norms Are Dogmas of Faith
October 24, 2024 by Fr. Michael McGuckian, SJ
Reviewing the teaching of Veritatis Splendor, Francis Sullivan asks “whether one might . . . interpret the encyclical to mean that all traditional Catholic moral doctrine is, in the final analysis, the Church’s interpretation of the Ten Com … [Read more...]
On the Empathy of God
October 24, 2024 by Fr. Kenneth G. Davis, OFM Conv.
Catholic doctrine can empirically establish the doctrine of original sin. Every day news reports on humanity’s inclination to evil. However, that same empirical evidence also necessarily lends reason to every atheist’s most powerful arg … [Read more...]
Sisters in the Same Spirit
The Cathedral of Mary our Queen and the Second Vatican Council
September 27, 2024 by Fr. Justin Gough
The following was originally given as part of a lecture series on the history and theology of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Maryland to the Cathedral parish. It has been slightly modified by the author for … [Read more...]
Dignitas Migrantis: On the Morality of Deportation
September 27, 2024 by Fr. Matthew Gonzalez
As we approach federal government elections, it is commonplace to address the issues surrounding the growing phenomena of large-scale immigration and its peripheral subjects, such as deportation. It is significant to note that among various … [Read more...]
Notes on a Catholic Ecumenical Perspective of the Sacramental Life of the Church
September 27, 2024 by Eduardo Echeverria
Paper presented at a bi-annual meeting of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, of which I am a member, June 5, 2023, Colorado Springs. If anyone says that these seven sacraments are so equal to one another that one is not in any way of … [Read more...]
Draw Near to Christ through Our Lady and the Saints
September 27, 2024 by Dr. Peter Kahn
How is it possible to grow close to God, even very close? What’s the best way to climb the steep stairway of perfection? St. Thérèse of Lisieux has some wonderful advice for us on these questions in her autobiography, The Story of a Sou … [Read more...]
The Holy Spirit and the Four Marks of the Church
August 23, 2024 by Dr. Michael Brummond
In the creed which we profess at Mass, we declare the Church to be one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. In the past, particularly in counter-reformation apologetics, it was not uncommon for these four marks to serve as a kind of litmus test … [Read more...]
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