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Homilies for November 2024
For All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, November 3, November 10, November 17, and November 24 (Solemnity of Christ the King) Solemnity of All Saints – November 1, 2024 Readings: Rv 7:2–4, 9–14 • Ps 24:1bc–2, 3–4ab, 5–6 • 1 Jn 3:1–3 • Mt 5:1–12a bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110124.cfm This great solemnity is one in which we recall to […]
Theological Formation as Ethical Instruction
Go to Part One This essay examines the pedagogical contribution of Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 150 – 215), with focus on pedagogical pragmatism as the basis for prescribed moral purification, and implications for contemporary catechesis. Pedagogical pragmatism St. Clement of Alexandria, dean of the catechetical school whereat he derives his name, offers a useful reference […]
Assenting to Fiducia Supplicans
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 truth was to believe it in union with the infallible teaching of the Catholic bishops and […]
On the Need to Focus on a Catholic Theologate
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 They discussed the need for an alliance of sorts between the “Neo-Scholastic” and “Communio” schools of theologians — alongside all orthodox Catholic thinkers and theological-philosophical academic schools — due to […]
The Absolute Moral Norms Are Dogmas of Faith
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 Commandments as reaffirmed and further specified in the New Testament.”1 Sullivan presents this possibility as if it would […]
On the Empathy of God
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 argument: How can anyone believe in God amid such relentless human suffering? If God is all-loving, why do the children He loves […]
Questions Answered – November 2024
Understanding Heresies: Their Nature and History Question: Dear Father Cush, I was the person who asked if there were any Trinitarian theology before the First Council of Nicaea. Thank you for your very thorough answer last month, but I am still left rather confused. You mentioned a great number of heresies that I seem to […]
Book Reviews – November 2024
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution. By Hadley Arkes. Reviewed by Fr. Stephen Rocker. (skip to review) God Loves The Autistic Mind. By Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC. Reviewed by Fr. Mark Nolette. (skip to review) Fed by the Lord: At-Home Scriptural Formation to Prepare Children for First Communion. By Leonard J. […]
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Homilies for November 2024
For All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, November 3, November 10, November 17, and November 24 (So … more...
Homilies for October 2024
For October 6, October 13, October 20, and October 27 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – O … more...
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Ecclesiology After the NEC with Bishop Barron as Our Guide
I was not blessed to personally attend the National Eucharistic … more...
Guilt and the Eucharist
The words of the centurion, words that we say again and again at every … more...
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