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June 23, 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. Contact information is listed at the bottom of this column. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 22) After the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, and his powerful sermon that converted more than three thousand people, St. Peter began to exert his authority in the early Church. That authority came from Jesus Himself, who had changed Simon’s name to Peter, which means “rock,” because Peter was to be the solid foundation on which Jesus would build His Church. At the…Continue Reading

Orthodoxy Under Attack In Columbus

June 22, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Orthodoxy Under Attack In Columbus

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Being a “cradle Catholic” is one thing. Dying an intentional Catholic quite another. A current contretemps in Columbus decidedly proves the case.Jack D’Aurora is quite upset. Or perhaps merely disappointed. He, a columnist in a Columbus paper, at any rate makes clear that he approves of the Paulist Fathers and their pomps and works. The current bishop of the place, however, believes that their public manifestations of faith, or the lack of it, must be corrected and has acted accordingly. This has met with the considered disapproval of Mr. D’Aurora, who takes care at the end of a column penned by him in a local paper The Dispatch, to describe himself as a “cradle Catholic.”This…Continue Reading

Love On The Move . . . Of The Divine “Dance” In The Holy Trinity

June 21, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Love On The Move . . . Of The Divine “Dance” In The Holy Trinity

(Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this essay on June 6 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + There is a kind of tension in some of the imagery we use for God. On the one hand we call Him the “Unmoved Mover.” We also say that God is everywhere. If He is everywhere then there is nowhere for Him to go, no need for Him to move because He is already there. Yet we also speak of “processions” in the Trinity.St. Thomas artfully and with precision speaks of the Trinity and the two “processions” as Genitori Genitoque laus et jubilation . . . Procedenti abutroque compar sit laudatio (To the One who generates and to the One…Continue Reading

Hundreds of Pro-Lifers . . . Protest New Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz In California

June 20, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Hundreds of Pro-Lifers . . . Protest New Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz In California

By MICAIAH BILGER FONTANA, Calif. (LifeNews) — Hundreds of people in Fontana, Calif., marched in protest June 2 against plans to open an abortion facility in their community.Holding signs in English and Spanish, the pro-life residents urged their community to “Pray to end abortion,” “Protect the unborn child,” and “In a war against children, have courage, choose love, choose life,” the Fontana Herald News reports.The peaceful protest took place after residents learned that Planned Parenthood is preparing to open a new abortion facility on the corner of Sierra and San Bernardino Avenues, according to the report. The billion-dollar abortion chain already operates three other facilities in San Bernardino County, but a spokeswoman told the newspaper that Fontana is “medically underserved.”“It…Continue Reading

Being Baptized Into Jesus Christ

June 19, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Being Baptized Into Jesus Christ

BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16aRomans 6:3-4, 8-11Matt. 10:37-42 (Wanderer Editor’s Note: We are publishing Fr. Robert Altier’s popular reflections on the Mass readings further in advance of the Sundays they refer to because so many readers are experiencing delays in their delivery of The Wanderer. This way, everyone can, we hope, study the reflections beforehand.) + + In the second reading today, St. Paul reminds us that when we were baptized, we were baptized into Christ Jesus. Remember, Jesus is the Christ because of the Paschal mystery, that is, the Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension. Of course, He was always the Christ, but His work as the Christ took…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

June 16, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. Following up on your reply about Judas, were the thirty pieces of silver ever found? If not, are researchers still looking for them? – J.B., Pennsylvania.A. Not that we know of. Recall in chapter 27 of Matthew’s Gospel that Judas regretted his betrayal of Jesus and tried to return the thirty pieces to the chief priests, saying that “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” The chief priests responded, “What is that to us? Look to it yourself.” Judas then flung the money into the Temple and went out and hanged himself. The chief priests gathered up the money and said, “It is not lawful to deposit this money in the temple treasury, for it is the price of…Continue Reading

France Encounters

June 15, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on France Encounters

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK In last week’s column I limned for our readers some of the highlights of the Paris-Chartres pilgrimage, a hike of over 60 miles on Pentecost weekend from the French capital to the double-spired masterpiece of Romanesque-Gothic architecture which looms over the surrounding countryside like a heavenly beacon.My stay began with three nights at an AirBnB in the “city of light.” My room was virtually a glorified crawl space with exposed wooden beams lit by two windows over the front door of seventeenth century building — just off the Seine close to Notre-Dame. One had to stoop to get into the bathroom. It served my simple needs quite well: a place to sleep and quite near…Continue Reading

If The Members Of The Trinity Are Equal . . . Why Does Jesus Say That The Father Is Greater Than He?

June 14, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on If The Members Of The Trinity Are Equal . . . Why Does Jesus Say That The Father Is Greater Than He?

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this commentary on June 6 and it is reprinted here with permission. Msgr. Pope is the pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian in Washington, D.C.) + + A common question arising around the time of Trinity Sunday is rooted in this passage from John’s Gospel:“If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I” (John 14:28).This is somewhat puzzling because we are taught that each Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity fully possesses the nature of God and is equally to be adored and glorified. What, then, did Jesus mean when He said, “the Father is greater than I”?The…Continue Reading

Take Them Seriously Or They Will Get Worse . . . Archbishop Cordileone Condemns Hundreds Of Attacks On Churches

June 13, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Take Them Seriously Or They Will Get Worse . . . Archbishop Cordileone Condemns Hundreds Of Attacks On Churches

By MICAIAH BILGER WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeNews) — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone urged America’s leaders to start taking attacks on churches more seriously after a local prosecutor reduced charges for five individuals accused of vandalizing a Catholic mission.Writing at the Wall Street Journal on June 1, Cordileone said the “long, deep, and sordid history of anti-Catholicism” has been ignored for far too long in America, and attacks will continue unless action is taken.At least 260 attacks on Catholic churches have occurred since May 2020, including arson, vandalism, and other property damage, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. LifeNews, the Family Research Council, and others also have tracked a rise in violence against other Christian churches and pro-life organizations…Continue Reading

Fear No One

June 12, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Fear No One

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Jer. 20:10-13Romans 5:12-15Matt. 10:26-33 Today’s Gospel reading begins with our Lord telling His apostles, “Fear no one.” We live in a world that is becoming increasingly violent and where people have either forgotten or completely ignore the dignity of other people. As we see chaos, uprisings, and threats of war, we need to consider this statement by Jesus.Over the centuries the holy martyrs have had to cling to this teaching of Jesus. Since there have been more martyrs in the past 100 years than in the previous 1,900 years combined, this lesson is one that must be lived now in a more profound way than in the past.…Continue Reading