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Doing God’s Will Is Perfect Freedom

June 25, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Doing God’s Will Is Perfect Freedom

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21 Gal. 5:1, 13-18 Luke 9:51-62 In the second reading today, St. Paul tells us we were called for freedom, but then he says we are not to use this freedom for the flesh, but to serve one another through love. Normally we would think of a servant as someone who is not free, someone who is bound to carry out the directives of the master. Although an aspect of this is correct, that is, a servant carries out the directives of another, this does not necessarily imply that a servant is not free. With Independence Day coming next week in the United States, we…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… The Week In Review

June 24, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… The Week In Review

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK “For as those rich dishes cannot be eaten without salt, so this simple virtue may be adorned with the glory and honor of different virtues, but if a man lack the love of God and of his neighbor, he is wholly worthless and contemptible” — St. Ephrem the Deacon. The website Canon 212 strove mightily to amuse last week, nominating me the “bare shoulders warrior.” Trust me, “shoulders” was the modest way to describe what was being revealed. More free advertising: Mary Pezzulo on her Patheos blog has continued her screed about something that never happened, at least as far as I know, and nothing I ever mentioned in Twitter or in a column. (Please…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

June 21, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. I asked my parish priest if one can be a conscientious objector with respect to paying taxes when your government uses your money for things antithetical to your belief system, such as giving money to Planned Parenthood. Before he gave me what I thought was a good answer, he wanted to know if I had gone to a Jesuit college and if this was a Jesuitical question. I told him I had not gone to a Jesuit college and, in fact, had told my children that if they wanted to go to Boston College or Georgetown, or some other Jesuit-run institution, they would have to pay their own way. But my question is, what did he mean by Jesuitical?…Continue Reading

The Barbarians Have Won

June 19, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Barbarians Have Won

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER Part 2 (Editor’s Note: Deacon Toner has contributed numerous columns to The Catholic Thing, Crisis Magazine, and The Wanderer. He serves in the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C. This is a two-part article. Part one appeared in last week’s issue.) IV. The Church has long taught lex orandi, lex credendi (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1124 and, by reasonable extension, lex credendi, lex vivendi. As we pray, so do we believe; and as we believe, so do we behave. (It was, by the way, Bishop Fulton Sheen who said that “If we don’t start behaving the way we believe, we will end up believing the way we behave.”) When we have mendacious – barbaric…Continue Reading

God’s Greatest Gift To Us

June 18, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on God’s Greatest Gift To Us

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Solemnity Of Corpus Christi (YR C) Readings: Gen. 14:18-20 1 Cor. 11:23-26 Luke 9:11b-17 The Holy Eucharist is the greatest gift and the greatest treasure we possess on Earth. God has given us many great gifts, but the Eucharist is God Himself! It is such a marvelous mystery that the whole universe cannot contain God, but He comes to us under the appearance of a piece of bread to give Himself to us because He loves us so much. Human persons while alive on Earth are the only beings in all of creation who can partake of this Gift. Think about the love of God for you: He wants you to be with Him and united…Continue Reading

Latest From Fr. Cusick . . . Modesty: A Woman’s Voice

June 17, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Latest From Fr. Cusick . . . Modesty: A Woman’s Voice

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK For readers following “the tweet hated round the world” story, more on the aftermath in this week’s column. Being removed a degree from Twitter after deactivating my personal account, and looking back at comments on the social media platform, is like being dead. People talk about me in the third person: “We miss him,” “Hope he comes back.” Those are the positive comments. There are some who take the opportunity to dish on others while they think they’re not around to defend themselves. Then there are others who spread rumors, innuendo, and falsehoods. The old adage about news during war applies: “The first casualty is the truth.” “Father, we need you.” some wrote. You need…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

June 14, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: Commenting on the Vatican accord last year to give the Communist regime in Red China a say in the naming of new Catholic bishops, Fr. George Rutler of the Church of St. Michael in New York City offered these trenchant comments in a recent bulletin: “While the Holy See invokes two thousand years of diplomatic experience, China beats that by more than twice, and has treated the 2018 agreement as tissue, tearing down churches and persecuting faithful Catholics, not to mention banishing over a million Uighur Muslims and Falun Gong cultists to concentration camps. The issue is not theology but control. The Vatican secretary of state said that ‘an act of faith is needed’ for the agreement to…Continue Reading

The Barbarians Have Won

June 12, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Barbarians Have Won

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER Part 1 (Editor’s Note: Deacon Toner has contributed numerous columns to The Catholic Thing, Crisis Magazine, and The Wanderer. He serves in the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C. This is a two-part article.) + + + Précis: Known as barbarians or heathens, the powerful enemies of the Church are both internal and external. There are many ideological symptoms of this hatred for Christ and His Church, but they may be subsumed under the heading of the principal source and cause of such anti-Catholic hostilities: modernism, which is the “synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pope Pius X) and of all “structures of sin” (Pope St. John Paul II). Among the spiritual weapons which the Church can deploy…Continue Reading

Jesus Is The Wisdom Of God

June 11, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Jesus Is The Wisdom Of God

BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER Solemnity Of The Most Holy Trinity (YR C) Readings: Prov. 8:22-34 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15   In the first reading today we see the personification of Wisdom. We are told Wisdom was present with God before the Most High began His work of creation. The only way someone could be present with God before “the beginning of His ways” is if that one is uncreated. After all, if Wisdom was present before God began His creation, then Wisdom could not have been created. If Wisdom was created it would have to be said she was the first of His creation, or something to that effect. Instead, St. Paul clarifies the question for us in the first…Continue Reading

The Joy And Beauty Of Sacrificial Love

June 10, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Joy And Beauty Of Sacrificial Love

By JAMES MONTI There is something profoundly intimate about chapters 13 to 17 of the Gospel of St. John — the apostle’s meticulous account of Our Lord’s Farewell Discourse at the Last Supper. For those who might wonder where the Sacred Heart of Jesus is mentioned in the Gospels, they can find it in these pages. For it is here, as our Lord stands upon the threshold of His transitus, just hours away from His Passion and death on the cross, that He pours out His Heart, telling us how very much He loves us, and beseeching us to love Him in return: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love” (John 15:9);…Continue Reading