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May 12, 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 postal and email addresses at the bottom of this column. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 19) For hundreds of years, Catholics prayed the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries of the rosary, but these mysteries covered only the early and final years of Jesus’ life on Earth. They said nothing about the three years that Jesus spent preaching and teaching. In 2002, Pope St. John Paul II filled this gap with the Luminous Mysteries, also known as the “Mysteries…Continue Reading

Smash The Idols In Your Life

May 11, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Smash The Idols In Your Life

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Evil idols spawned by the ubiquity of the Internet, among other enablers, abound today. They endanger not only faith and salvation but also purity, marriages, children’s safety, and more.Take the “demonic rectangle,” for instance. You go everywhere with your Internet and texting portal that you sometimes use for actually talking to people. For some, it is used with discipline and without disruption to relationships, work, and worship. Some use their phones for prayer.For others, however, particularly those in the grip of porn addiction, the mere sight of the phone can trigger receptors in the brain that immediately seek more impure images to feed the longing. It’s a vicious cycle of filth, rinse, and repeat that…Continue Reading

“Church-Speak” — Strange Things Church People Say

May 10, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on “Church-Speak” — Strange Things Church People Say

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this commentary on May 1, and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + Many groups have a tendency to use words that make sense to their members but are unintelligible to outsiders. I have sometimes had to decode “Church-speak” for recent converts.Here in the aftermath of Easter with all our fancy words like catechumen, mystogogia, neophyte, regeneration, etc., I muse on our overall tendency to “church-speak. To some degree, we need these words and should educate God’s faithful as to their meaning. But it is a source of some humor to ponder how arcane, how obscure our language can become.For example, one time I proudly announced, “RCIA classes will…Continue Reading

Supreme Court Upholds Pro-Life Law . . . Requiring Proper Burial Or Cremation For Babies Killed In Abortions

May 9, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Supreme Court Upholds Pro-Life Law . . . Requiring Proper Burial Or Cremation For Babies Killed In Abortions

By STEVEN ERTELT WASHINGTON, D.C (LifeNews) — After national controversy surrounding the Planned Parenthood abortion businesses’ sale of aborted babies and aborted baby body parts, then Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law a new measure providing that aborted babies may be buried or cremated.The new law, passed years before Dobbs overturned Roe v. Wade, would help stop the kind of sale of aborted babies and their body parts that Planned Parenthood facilities in other states have been caught arranging. Although Roe v. Wade prohibits states from banning abortions, pro-life advocates in Indiana believed the aborted baby ought to at least be treated respectfully even if the abortion clinic treated the baby with disrespect before the abortion.But Planned Parenthood sued…Continue Reading

Sanctify Christ As Lord In Your Hearts

May 8, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Sanctify Christ As Lord In Your Hearts

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Sixth Sunday of Easter(YR A) Readings:Acts 8:5-8, 14-171 Peter 3:15-18John 14:15-21 In the second reading, St. Peter tells us to “sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.” We need to ask ourselves what this means. The first thing we must recognize is that he is telling us to look at what is going on in our hearts, not in our minds. Anyone with faith knows that Jesus is Lord, but the problem is always one of getting these truths into our hearts.But St. Peter is not merely asking us to believe in our hearts that Jesus is Lord; he is asking us to sanctify Jesus as Lord in our hearts. When we pray in the Our…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

May 5, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. Every year during Holy Week, we read about the betrayal of Judas and his suicide. But he seemed to repent when he tried to give the 30 pieces of silver back to the high priests and said, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood” (Matt. 27:4). Do we know if Judas is in Hell? — M.E.W., via e-mail.A. While the Church has given us the names of many saints who are in Heaven, she has never stated who is in Hell, so we don’t know if Judas is undergoing eternal punishment. However, there are many Scripture passages that would seem to indicate that he is not in Heaven. For example, at the Last Supper, when Jesus identified Judas as…Continue Reading

Vatican Racing World To The Bottom?

May 4, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Vatican Racing World To The Bottom?

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Another big voice has been silenced. Tucker Carlson was ousted at Fox News last week. It was indeed big news, thus many of you are already aware of this. Why was it big news? Tucker, so “household” that he’s known by his first name, reached millions by speaking for them. He was one of the biggest names on cable at the time he was axed. He gave a voice to the majority view increasingly crowded out by the globalist, oligarch, Godless “Herods” of old media. He spoke for Christians, families, pro-lifers, those disenfranchised by the new trans, LGBTQ+, pagan, abortion, and euthanasia agenda.Many turned to Fox only to watch him. It was worth taking the…Continue Reading

Mass On The Move

May 3, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Mass On The Move

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this article on April 22, and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + In the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Easter, we encounter two discouraged and broken men making their way to Emmaus. The text describes them as “downcast.” That is to say, their eyes are cast on the ground, their heads are hung low. Their Lord and Messiah has been killed, the one they had thought would finally liberate Israel. Some women had claimed that He was alive, but these disciples have discredited those reports and are now leaving Jerusalem. It is late in the afternoon and the sun is sinking low.They are also moving in the…Continue Reading

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Full Access To Abortion Pill

May 2, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on U.S. Supreme Court Allows Full Access To Abortion Pill

By TYLER ARNOLD WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — An abortion-inducing drug that is used to kill preborn children up to 10 weeks gestation will stay on the market as a legal battle over the pill continues, following a decision Friday, April 21 by the U.S. Supreme Court.The court’s 7-2 ruling blocks a lower court order that would have taken the drug mifepristone off the market as the court considers a lawsuit over whether the drug was validly approved. Four conservative justices joined the court’s three liberal justices in the ruling. Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissented.President Joe Biden praised the Supreme Court’s decision.“I continue to stand by FDA’s evidence-based approval of mifepristone, and my Administration will continue to defend…Continue Reading

Jesus Is The Living Stone

May 1, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Jesus Is The Living Stone

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Fifth Sunday Of Easter (YR A) Readings: Acts 6:1-71 Peter 2:4-9John 14:1-12 In the Gospel reading today our Lord tells His apostles that He is going to His Father’s house, but that He is also going to come back to take them to Himself. He said He was going to prepare a place for them, then added that they already know the way to where He is going. Thomas the Apostle, who was the most like the rest of us, says they do not know where our Lord is going and, therefore, they certainly did not know the way that leads there. Jesus told him: “I am the way and the truth and the life.”We recall…Continue Reading