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Coronation Considerations

May 17, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Coronation Considerations

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this commentary on May 8 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + If you saw some or all of the coronation rituals for King Charles in England, you were certainly treated to an exceedingly beautiful event but also a “blast from the past.” It is highly significant that this is the first coronation in England in seventy years. Seventy years reaches back, prior to the wreckovation, iconoclasm, and rude casting aside of all tradition and formality which occurred in the West in the period of the 1960s and after.Today we are relentlessly casual; we almost never dress up and, practically, nothing is sacred. I have little doubt that,…Continue Reading

Independent School A Gift To The Church… Holy Angels Academy Celebrates Golden Anniversary

May 16, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Independent School A Gift To The Church… Holy Angels Academy Celebrates Golden Anniversary

“Holy Angels Academy is a wonderful example…an example to be imitated.” These words spoken by the Most Rev. Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Louisville, speak volumes about how this independent Catholic school represents a valuable movement in the Church.Established in 1973, Holy Angels Academy is the longest continuously operating school of its kind in the United States. At a time when many teachings of the Catholic Church were being called into question at all levels of education, there were those faithful Catholics who wanted schools which would preserve a solid catechesis loyal to the Magisterium. Fifty years or so later the widespread effect of poor catechetical instruction and lack of sound spiritual formation in many schools…Continue Reading

The Power Of The Resurrection

May 15, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Power Of The Resurrection

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Seventh Sunday Of Easter (YR A) Readings: Acts 1:12-141 Peter 4:13-16John 17:1-11a In the Gospel reading we have what might be one of the greatest consolations we could ever receive: Jesus prayed for us. We know that He is in Heaven interceding for us, but to know that while He was on Earth, He actually prayed for us. He prayed: “I do not pray for the world, but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours. . . .” Think about this: Not only did Jesus pray for you, but He said that you are the Father’s!What comes next is also amazing to consider, and it might even make us wonder: Jesus says…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

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