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At First Post-Dobbs OAS General Assembly . . . Human Life International Coalition Delivers Life-Affirming Victory

July 11, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on At First Post-Dobbs OAS General Assembly . . . Human Life International Coalition Delivers Life-Affirming Victory

By TOM CIESIELKA WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Organization of American States is like the European Union for the Western Hemisphere, an international organization promoting cooperation among member states within the Americas. It also helps formulate abortion policies.The OAS’s General Assembly just wrapped up an annual meeting, held this year in Washington, D.C. Luis Martinez with Human Life International heads the pro-life delegation at the OAS. He shares highlights on the positive achievements they were able to effect at this year’s OAS General Assembly. Details below.Human Life International’s involvement at the Organization of American States (OAS) 53rd General Assembly has delivered a victory for pro-life at the first post-Dobbs gathering of the Western Hemisphere’s 75-year-old governmental policy forum. Leading a coalition…Continue Reading

God Wants The Salvation Of Everyone

July 10, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on God Wants The Salvation Of Everyone

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Sixteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Wisdom 12:13, 16-19Romans 8:26-27Matt. 13:24-43 In the first reading today, Solomon speaks about the power of God and states that because God has mastery over all things, He is lenient to all. He goes on to say that God judges us with clemency and governs us with leniency. This, the wise man tells us, gives us hope for the forgiveness of our sins. At the same time, the kindness, clemency, and lenience God demonstrates, show us, as His children, that we are to act toward others as God acts toward us.As people continue to question when God is going to intervene to put an end to the evil…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

July 7, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: This final installment 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. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 23) That God can convert the most hardened sinners is illustrated by the conversion of Saul, a vicious persecutor of the early Christians, into the Apostle Paul, a great missionary for Jesus. A Pharisee who had been “breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord” (Acts 9:1), Saul was on his way to the city of Damascus to round up more Christians when a flash of light from the sky knocked him to…Continue Reading

Salvation Is IRL, Not On Twitter

July 6, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Salvation Is IRL, Not On Twitter

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Some of our readers may remember aspects of the history of my Twitter exploits a few years back. I built an account up with a very large follower to followed ratio, almost 25k to 83. This is calculated to impress, Twitter being a superficial medium that measures reality in terms of follows and likes. It’s fueled by much fruitlessly expended CO2, so to speak. Many opinions, but often little context. A lot of talk but little action or real effort results from much expended “gas.” But one can, with patience and fortitude, find a pool of folks who don’t follow just to get a follow back, tit for tat, and who want to hear what…Continue Reading

The Revelation Of The Children Of God

July 3, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Revelation Of The Children Of God

BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER Fifteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Isaiah 55:10-11Romans 8:18-23Matt. 13:1-23 In the second reading today, St. Paul says two things that are a bit shocking at first glance. At the end of the reading, he says we are waiting “for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.” Earlier in the reading he says, “Creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God.” Are we not already the children of God? Do we not, as St. Paul himself tells us, already have adoption as sons? Why, then, are we awaiting adoption? And, if we are already children of God, why is creation waiting for our revelation?We are, indeed, the children of God. One…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

June 30, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. Your article on deathbed conversions was great, but what about someone who has been good all their life and finds it harder to keep going until the end and maybe even contemplates suicide. I just want to throw in the towel. — Name and State Withheld.A. Feelings like yours are not unusual as the end of life draws near and one finds it difficult to persevere to the end. But persevere is what you must do. Our true home is in Heaven and we must do all we can to get there. What a tragedy it would be to throw Heaven away just when you are so close. Feelings like yours come from only one source, the Devil. He…Continue Reading

“Creating” Catholic-Free “Spaces” In The Church?

June 29, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on “Creating” Catholic-Free “Spaces” In The Church?

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK “Welcome” is a predominant theme of the Instrumentum Laboris presented in Rome on June 20 for the next phase of the “Synod on Synodality.”The document makes clear a demand for the priority of “creating spaces” for those who feel excluded because of their status or sexuality. You likely know the list: divorced and remarried, LGBTQ+ individuals, and now we hear of “polygamists” as well. The document reportedly also calls for “more female governance, possibility of female deacons and married priests.”The drumbeat refrain that has been sounded all along through the Synod process since 2021 which has led to this moment is that these groups who live in ways contrary to Church teaching or who champion…Continue Reading

The Call To Integrity In Worship

June 28, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Call To Integrity In Worship

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope posted this essay on June 20 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + The opening of the Book of Isaiah is provocative, especially for those of us who hold the Liturgy in high esteem, as well we should. However, it is possible for us to distort even great things like the Mass and the sacraments.Let’s look at the reading and then draw a few teachings from it:“Hear the word of the Lord, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah! What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the Lord. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; in…Continue Reading

“Catholics Win Big”. . . Thousands Rally To Protest Drag “Nuns” At Dodger Stadium

June 27, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on “Catholics Win Big”. . . Thousands Rally To Protest Drag “Nuns” At Dodger Stadium

By RAYMOND WOLFE LOS ANGELES (LifeSiteNews) — The massive rally in Los Angeles against the Dodgers’ honoring of anti-Catholic drag “nuns” drew several thousand people and dwarfed the turnout for the drag queens’ award ceremony, in what protest organizers are celebrating as a “huge success.”More than 5,000 participants showed up for the prayer rally outside Dodger Stadium on Friday, June 16, according to Catholics for Catholics, a Phoenix-based group that organized the event.John Yep, the group’s CEO, described the rally as a victory for Catholics and “a wakeup call” for the U.S. bishops, adding that “we won’t wait for them to lead anymore.”“Catholics win big!” he told LifeSiteNews’ John-Henry Westen, who spoke at the event. “The Immaculate Heart has triumphed!!”LifeSiteNews…Continue Reading

Power Reaches Its Perfection In Weakness

June 26, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Power Reaches Its Perfection In Weakness

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Fourteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Zech. 9:9-10Romans 8:9, 11-13Matt. 11:25-30 In the second reading today, St. Paul says we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Later in the reading he talks about putting to death the deeds of the body. On the surface, it sounds like St. Paul is falling into the Gnostic heresy in the sense that the body is evil and the soul, which is good, is trapped in the body and wants to get out. Is this what St. Paul is saying?St. Paul is not stating that the body is evil or even bad. What he is doing is making the distinction between putting our focus on…Continue Reading