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Lenten Assignment . . . Be Grateful!

March 9, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this article on March 2 and it is reprinted here with permission. All rights reserved.) + + True gratitude is a grace, or gift, from God. It proceeds from a humble and transformed heart. We do not render thanks merely because it is polite or expected, or because God commands it but because it flows naturally from a profound experience of gratitude. The “command” of Scripture to give thanks is not a moral cliché but a truth and a description of what flows from a transformed heart.We should seek from God the powerful transformation of our intellect and our heart so that we become deeply aware of the remarkable gift…Continue Reading

Embrace The Cross!

March 7, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER The Second Sunday In Lent (YR C) Readings: Gen. 15:5-12, 17-18Phil. 3:17-4:1Luke 9:28b-36 In the second reading today, St. Paul tells us that our citizenship is in Heaven. That means that in the present we are living, in essence, in a foreign land. While we are in that foreign land, we need to learn the language and the customs so we can live in that culture, but we should always have our focus on going home. Hopefully none of us becomes so enamored with this world, this society, or this culture that we would see this as our home and prefer this to our true homeland.The concern in this regard, is that if we begin looking…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

March 4, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

Editor’s Note: This series on Apologetics is based on the book Catholicism & Reason. Please feel free to use the series for high schoolers or adults. We will continue to welcome your questions for the column as well. You can send them either to the postal mailing address or to the email address below, and we will interrupt this series to answer them. Special Course On Catholicism And Reason (Chapter 12) It was important to Jesus that the leader of His Church be able to teach the truth without falling into error. Otherwise, one could never be sure about the teaching of Jesus. So the Pope was given the charism of infallibility, which means that he cannot teach something that…Continue Reading

Weakness Invites Evil

March 3, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK It is just a fact of human relations that weakness invites predation and attack. We see that in Ukraine with the February invasion by Russia. Covetousness, jealousy, envy, the lust for power and domination, constantly beset the human race.After the current weakness of U.S. leadership was on full display in the recent disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia saw its chance to grab a long desired prize in Ukraine. Now we see the violent and deadly result. We must pray for peace as we witness the death and destruction visited upon the people of Ukraine.Weakness in our faith is “going through the motions” for some end other than salvation of souls. That is enough for the…Continue Reading

Be Different, Be A Christian

March 2, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this column on February 19 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + Are you a Christian? Before you answer, consider these other questions: Do you love your enemy? Do you do good to them who hate you? The honest answers to these questions are at the very heart of Christianity and represent what distinguishes a Christian from others. Let’s follow Jesus’ teachings in several stages. In so doing, we can learn our truest identity and how He seeks to transform us. The Attitude Of A Christian Jesus said to His disciples, “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless…Continue Reading

Lenten Sacrifices For The Love Of God

February 28, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By FR. ROBET ALTIER First Sunday Of Lent (YR C) Readings: Deut. 26:4-19Romans 10:8-13Luke 4:1-13 In the Gospel reading today we are told that Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the Devil. We do not know what occurred during those forty days our Lord spent in the desert, but we are told what happened on the final day. It is important to note that Jesus had not eaten for those forty days, so not only was He hungry, but He was probably also very weak physically. This is important because the vile creature always look for a person’s weakness in order to exploit it.I do not want to consider our Lord’s actual…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

February 25, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

Q. First, thank you for your “Special Course on Catholicism and Reason.” Second, I recall many years ago that a priest had written a book for priests to use incorporating the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church into their Sunday homilies over the three-year scriptural readings cycle. His work followed the rule to give a homily on the Scriptures each Sunday, while relating the corresponding relevant teachings in the CCC to those readings. I think that the laity are extremely lacking in an understanding of the Catechism, and this book would be an invaluable tool for helping to evangelize our Catholic faithful. But I cannot remember the name of the priest or the title of the book. Can you help?…Continue Reading

Endless Synods: Modern Babel

February 24, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Upon a recent rereading of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, “On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World,” I found myself troubled by a glaring omission. The word “Heaven” seems to be missing from the document entirely.In the context of the saints — which forms the basis for the introduction to the exhortation — the Pope mentions “true life” and “happiness,” but not “eternal life” or “beatitude.” A this-worldly bubble seems to surround the mental process at work here. The mundane is substituted in the place of the supernatural perspective for which faith exists.The goal of a holy life here on Earth is Heaven, where happiness is eternal. The saints themselves often speak…Continue Reading

Compare And Contrast . . . The Super Bowl And The Mass, Football And Faith

February 23, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this column on February 13, 2022 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + I write to you in the midst of a semi-“religious” event: the Super Bowl. People have donned their sacred attire and are shouting praises. I enjoy football, but see it a lot less than most since I’m a priest and tend to be busy on Sundays! Yet I remain quite fascinated at how passionate and dedicated many Americans are to their team and to the game.Would that more Catholics had the same dedication to the Mass and the Church that true football fans have to the game. (Fan is short for fanatic.) Would, too, that…Continue Reading

God Purifies Us Of Our Wounds

February 21, 2022 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off

BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: Sirach 27:4-71 Cor. 15:54-58Luke 6:39-45 In the Gospel reading today, our Lord tells us that a good person, out of the store of goodness in his heart, produces good, but the evil person, out of the store of evil in his heart, produces evil. One can judge this overall in someone’s actions, but it is sometimes difficult to know the actions of a person if you have only recently met that person. It is fairly easy, however, to pay attention to what the person is saying. Jesus tells us: “from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”When a person attempts to grow in virtue, they will begin…Continue Reading

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