The Trinity and Valid Baptism Q: Dear Father Cush, My coordinator of faith formation accepted someone who was a Mormon as a “candidate” for the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults in our parish program. As the pastor of the parish, I ha … [Read more...]
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Book Reviews – October 2024
September 27, 2024 by Book Reviews
Exegetical Journeys in Biblical Greek: 90 Days of Guided Reading. By Benjamin L. Merkle. Reviewed by D. Malachi Walker. (skip to review) He Gave Us So Much: A Tribute to Benedict XVI. By Robert Cardinal Sarah. Reviewed by Dr. Brandon … [Read more...]
Homilies for September 2024
August 23, 2024 by HPRweb.com, Fr. Joseph Zwosta, Rev. Michael Bruno, Fr. Nicholas M. Colalella, SSL and Rev. Bradley D. Easterbrooks
For September 1, September 8, September 15, September 22, and September 29 Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 1, 2024 Readings: Dt 4:1–2, 6–8 • Ps 15:2–3, 3–4, 4–5 • Jas 1:17–18, 21b–22, 27 • Mk 7:1–8, 14–15, 21–23 bible. … [Read more...]
Ecclesiology After the NEC with Bishop Barron as Our Guide
August 23, 2024 by Rev. John P. Cush, STD
I was not blessed to personally attend the National Eucharistic Congress this past July. However, I know several bishops, priests, religious sisters, and seminarians, both religious and diocesan seminarians, who had attended, and all of … [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...]
Helping Penitents Overcome Pornography Use Within the Sacrament of the Penance
August 23, 2024 by Fr. Justin A. Freeman
Pornography is an epidemic. Social science data and the experiences of priests counseling parishioners reveal the ubiquity of pornography in our society. The accessibility, affordability, and anonymity of Internet pornography has exposed … [Read more...]
Equip and Deploy the Sleeping Giant
Foundational Formation for Lay Catholics to Become Effective Evangelizers
August 23, 2024 by Janet Diaz
St. Paul teaches that “truth is in Jesus.” What then is the lived consequence for people who meet Jesus and choose to give their lives to him? Paul goes on to explain that those people should “put away the old self” of their lives before the … [Read more...]
Pastoral Planning 101
A Stronger Communion for the Sake of the Mission: A Better Church
August 23, 2024 by Jim Lundholm-Eades
For those of us who experienced pastoral planning at parish or diocesan levels over time, we have seen changes that make the practices of the past seem unrecognizable. Key to those changes is a re-examination of the underlying purpose of … [Read more...]
Questions Answered – September 2024
August 23, 2024 by Rev. John P. Cush, STD
Question from the Reader: My priest at Mass said that the number of the Sacraments was not determined until the Council of Trent. I was told since I was a child in religion class that Our Lord Jesus established seven sacraments in the … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – September 2024
August 23, 2024 by Book Reviews
The Passion of Love in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas. By Daniel Joseph Gordon. Reviewed by David Zettel. (skip to review) Nothing But You, Lord: Reflections on the Priesthood and Priestly Formation through the Lens of Bishop … [Read more...]
Homilies for August 2024
July 26, 2024 by Deacon Michael Hoonhout
For August 4, August 11, August 18, and August 25, as well as the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6; homily by Rev. John Cush) and the Solemnity of the Assumption (August 15) Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 4, 2 … [Read more...]
Twenty-five Years After the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
How an Ecumenical Achievement Offers Catechetical and Pastoral Opportunities
July 26, 2024 by Rev. Bradley D. Easterbrooks
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ). The declaration, first signed on October 31, 1999 by representatives of the Catholic Church[1. The Catholic signatories were … [Read more...]
Revolution in Theology?
A Closer Look at the Significance of Pope Francis’ Ad Theologiam Promovendam
July 26, 2024 by Fr. Andreas Kramarz, LC
A theological outrage was frothing in the wake of Pope Francis’ November 1, 2023, apostolic letter motu proprio: Ad Theologiam Promovendam (henceforth ATP), which accompanied the approval of new statutes for the Pontifical Academy of T … [Read more...]
Pain, Suffering, and Redemption: Where Faith and Reason Mingle
July 26, 2024 by Stephen Doran, MD
Much has been said about the compatibility between faith and reason, religion and science. But they are more than parallel tracks that share mutual respect. Rather, they are integrated; they inform one another. In a particular way, the … [Read more...]
Understanding Pain
Pastoral Approaches to Help Those Who Suffer
July 26, 2024 by Fr. John W. Love
“Understanding Pain: Pastoral approaches to help those who suffer,” by Fr. John Love, The Priest, March 2024. ©OSV. Used by permission. No other use of this material is authorized. “If you feel pain, you’re alive. If you feel other people’s … [Read more...]
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