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January 20, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: This series on the Bible is from the book Catholicism & Scripture. Please feel free to use the series for high schoolers or adults. We will continue to welcome your questions for the column as well. See the contact information at the end of this column. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 11) Following the path of other Old Testament wives who were barren (Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel), Hannah pleaded with God for a son and promised that she would dedicate him to God as a Nazarite, like Samson, who would not drink wine or liquor or let his hair be cut. God heard her plea and Hannah bore a son whom she named Samuel. She turned him…Continue Reading

Ganswein’s New Book On Benedict XVI

January 19, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Ganswein’s New Book On Benedict XVI

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Benedict XVI, man of great intellect and learning that he was, lived the radical truth that faith, the direct graced contact with God, must be the starting point for all theological inquiry. Dating back to Augustine and Anselm of Canterbury (c. †1033-1109), the phrase “faith seeking understanding” is first mentioned by the latter in his Proslogion. It was this conviction which set up the great conflict with modernist and heretical forces within the Church.Just as the physical came from the spiritual in Creation, and God existed before all He has made, so we must proceed in all inquiry beginning with God. Perceived and grasped through graced belief, an abiding trust in all His words and…Continue Reading

Hail Mary Full of Grace . . . Punch The Devil In The Face

January 18, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Hail Mary Full of Grace . . . Punch The Devil In The Face

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this article on January 4, 2023, and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + Some years ago I wrote a blog post, “Is the Church a Cruise Ship or a Battleship?” I was surprised at the amount of negative commentary I got. For example, “How dare you compare the Church to an instrument of war!” Other comments lamented recourse to any violent imagery, ever. Still others called for bans on songs such as Onward Christian Soldiers, I am On the Battlefield for My Lord, and so forth. You might say that the response from the anti-military group was “militant.” I certainly wasn’t feelin’ the love! Most of those comments…Continue Reading

Faithful Lost In A Place Of Confusion

January 16, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Faithful Lost In A Place Of Confusion

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Third Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Isaiah 8:23-9:31 Cor. 1:10-13, 17Matt. 4:12-23 In the second reading, St. Paul urges the people of Corinth, and us through them, that there be no divisions among us. When we look around at what is happening in our own nation, and around the world, in our own families, and especially to children and babies, it should be clear to everyone that there is an intentional movement to cause division. This division is in every possible manner they can conceive: racial, economic, “gender,” political, medical (whether you received the COVID shot[s] or not), and so on.Even within our own Church there are forces trying to cause division. We have,…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

January 13, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. Is it necessary to bow to the altar when there is nothing on it? When the priest holds the Book of the Gospels up high, just about everyone bows to it. Is this necessary? I know the Gospel is God’s Word, but people rarely bow to the tabernacle. Sad. — P.S., via e-mail.A. Yes, one should bow when passing the altar, even when it is bare, because it is the sacred table upon which the Lord descends from Heaven during the Consecration of the Mass. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal says that “a bow signifies reverence and honor shown to the persons themselves or to the signs that represent them,” and it mentions the bow “made by…Continue Reading

The Legacy Of BXVI

January 12, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Legacy Of BXVI

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK At the end of Pope Benedict’s earthly sojourn with his death on the last day of 2022, we are moved to look back with gratitude upon his life and legacy. It is indeed a rich one, blessed with a fruitfulness indicating the Lord’s good pleasure in the labors of his humble servant.At the cusp of a new year it was as if, with his last breath, our beloved Pope Emeritus delivered his final homily about the brevity of our lives in comparison with the great treasure of the eternal Kingdom which awaits us. His words were always carefully and lovingly chosen, with a desire to effectively communicate the Lord and His Gospel. In the end…Continue Reading

On The Feast Of The Holy Innocents . . . A Meditation On the Sins Committed Against Children

January 11, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on On The Feast Of The Holy Innocents . . . A Meditation On the Sins Committed Against Children

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this article on December 28, 2022, and it is reprinted here with permission. To view a video he put together on this subject, please visit msgrpope.com.) + + Today, we observe the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a feast commemorating the young children, of even younger age who were cruelly murdered by the paranoid and crazed killer known as Herod “the Great.” So paranoid was he that others might usurp or limit his power that he killed three of his own sons, and his wife. He ruthlessly killed many others as well. As his own death drew near, according to Josephus, Herod decreed that in order that the nation properly…Continue Reading

A Light To The Nations

January 9, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Light To The Nations

BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER Second Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Isaiah 49:3, 5-61 Cor. 1:1-3John 1:29-34 In the first reading today, we hear about the Servant of the Lord, whom we know to be Jesus, but this was written 700 years before our Lord’s birth. We are told that this Servant came to bring Jacob back to the Lord and to gather Israel to the Lord. However, the reading takes a turn that is great news for all of us who are not of Jewish descent. The Lord says through Isaiah that it is not enough for the Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the survivors of Israel; rather, the Lord will make His…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

January 6, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: This series on the Bible is from the book Catholicism & Scripture. Please feel free to use the series for high schoolers or adults. We will continue to welcome your questions for the column as well. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 10) There are many heroes and heroines in the Bible, but we are singling out just a few of them for their significant role in salvation history. Not all of their actions were admirable, but we can learn many lessons from them.We know what a key role Joseph played in the history of Israel, but he would not have had the opportunity were it not for his brother Judah. The other brothers wanted to leave…Continue Reading

New Year, New Life In Christ

January 5, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on New Year, New Life In Christ

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Merry Christmas.This column, the last of 2022, is written with sentiments of gratitude for your readership both of this column and of our historic newspaper The Wanderer. Good Catholic journalism, like much that passes for Catholic in these very strange times, is very rare indeed. Labels cannot be trusted for the reason that many publications and much of media bearing the name of our Faith are in fact the very opposite of what is claimed. I hope you have found this paper, on the contrary, to be a solid Catholic voice among a cacophonic chorus clamoring for attention.Also, too there is an obsession with filth and with sin among many who claim to speak with…Continue Reading