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He Is Our Only Hope

November 3, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on He Is Our Only Hope

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Wisdom 6:12-161 Thess. 4:13-18Matt. 25:1-13 In the second reading today, St. Paul provides comfort for those who were concerned about believers in Christ who died before His Second Coming. Many early Christians thought the Lord was going to return in their lifetime and, at His coming, they would be shown victorious in Christ and be taken to Heaven with Him. Suddenly, there was a question about the believers who had died prior to our Lord’s Second Coming. St. Paul assures the Thessalonians that those who have died in Christ will be raised from the dead and taken up with Christ before the believers who will still be alive…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Three Moral Imperatives In Voting

November 2, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Three Moral Imperatives In Voting

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. As the son of devout Catholics parents, I received my faith at a very early age. As the firstborn of triplets, three months premature, I was baptized in an emergency because I might not survive. Having lost my two brothers within days of my birth, I spent the first three months of my life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital.The first moments of my life were filled with God’s sanctifying grace already at work within me. Through the Sacrament of Baptism, I received the faith handed down to me by my parents, but more important, I received the blueprint for the life the Lord had created me to live.…Continue Reading

McCarrick, Fr. Martin Connections… Pope Appoints Cardinal Farrell To Monitor Vatican Finances

October 12, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on McCarrick, Fr. Martin Connections… Pope Appoints Cardinal Farrell To Monitor Vatican Finances

By DOUG MAINWARING (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has appointed Kevin Cardinal Farrell as president of a committee charged with monitoring financial transactions that are not subject to the Pope’s new anti-corruption guidelines.Cardinal Farrell currently serves as prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life.The five-member “Commission for Reserved Matters” will oversee four categories of exempted contracts, according to Catholic News Agency’s Hannah Brockhaus.“Contracts related to matters covered by the pontifical secret; contracts funded by an international organization; contracts necessary to fulfill international obligations; and contracts pertaining to the office and security of the Pope, the Holy See, and the Universal Church or ‘necessary or functional to ensure the mission of the Church in the world and guarantee the sovereignty…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

October 9, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. I am a 78-year-old senior citizen who attends Mass every day and receives Holy Communion. I am hard of hearing, which makes it difficult to go to Confession, especially when I have to wear a mask. How do I receive the Sacrament of Penance? — B.M., New York.A. Speak to your pastor about this. He will surely find a way for you to go to Confession. He should be able to lower his mask if he is a safe distance from you so that you can grasp what he is saying.By the way, you are to be commended for being so conscientious about going to Confession. There are many other Catholics with no hearing loss who can’t be bothered…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World . . . ACB And The “Last Acceptable Prejudice”

October 7, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World . . . ACB And The “Last Acceptable Prejudice”

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Amy Coney Barrett reignited a new skirmish in a long, simmering conflict within American culture and religion. It was a Protestant American in the Kennedy era who described it best, that peculiar animus that “lives loudly within” his own people and which was brought to the fore once again in Judge Barrett’s recent nomination.Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. memorably wrote that “anti-Catholicism is the deepest bias of the American people and the last acceptable prejudice” in describing a widespread negative reaction to the political rise of baptized Catholic John F. Kennedy.Those of us who have ventured out of the Catholic bubble long enough to go to college, join the military, or otherwise rub shoulders with…Continue Reading

Choose The Disposition Of Christ

October 6, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Choose The Disposition Of Christ

BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER Twenty-Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR A) Readings: Isaiah 25:6-10aPhil. 4:12-14, 19-20Matt. 22:1-14 In the second reading, St. Paul says: “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.” The context of this is that St. Paul has learned to live in whatever circumstances he finds himself. He can live in humble circumstances or with abundance; he can go hungry or be well fed. In other words, he is able to see God’s will in whatever situation he finds himself and, more than that, he has learned to trust God to be with him and provide the grace he needs to come through whatever might be his present state of affairs.This is certainly the disposition…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . Clergy Are Called To Evangelize And Preach The Gospel

October 5, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . Clergy Are Called To Evangelize And Preach The Gospel

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND In its teaching on the Sacrament of Holy Orders, the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: “Holy Orders is the sacrament through which the mission entrusted by Christ to his apostles continues to be exercised in the Church until the end of time: thus it is the sacrament of apostolic ministry. It includes three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1536).And, as a bishop, citing Lumen Gentium n. 21, the Catechism further explains that the Second Vatican Council “teaches…that the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders is conferred by episcopal consecration, that fullness namely which, both in the liturgical tradition of the Church and the language of the Fathers of the…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

October 2, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: Writing in his bulletin at the Parish of St. Michael in New York City, Fr. George Rutler said that “Satan does not want anyone to know him, and yet in the present discontent that afflicts our culture, many anarchists and Marxists invoke him. The desecration of churches and statues of saints is spreading. Twice recently, our own church has been defaced with Satanic symbols: not just the customary obscenities, but invocations of the Prince of Lies.”He said that “playing the Devil’s game is dangerous. He has concealed weapons, and the chief of them is deceit. At one recent political convention, a Religious sister from a dying community, in secular dress, prayed not to the Lord, but to ‘O…Continue Reading

The Kingdom For A Pronoun

September 30, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on The Kingdom For A Pronoun

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12, 32)Through faith we are inheritors of the greatest gift God can give: Himself, all He has and is, eternal and infinite love and life, in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. This inheritance is lost to us, however, if we become ashamed of our heavenly Father.The institutional takeover of the Church is proceeding according to plan. One more archbishop has caved to the mob.A Catholic school in an east coast archdiocese is now subject to mass LGBT indoctrination and programming, following the orders of the archbishop that pronouns are to be manipulated according to the whims of…Continue Reading

Free Ourselves SO We May Be Able To Bear Good Fruit

September 29, 2020 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Free Ourselves SO We May Be Able To Bear Good Fruit

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7Phil. 4:6-9Matt. 21:33-43 In the Gospel reading today our Lord tells a parable about a vineyard owner who did everything correctly to ensure his vineyard would provide good grapes. The vineyard was leased to tenants who were to provide the owner with a portion of the grapes. When harvest time arrived, the owner sent servants to obtain the grapes, but the tenants abused and killed them. When the owner sent his son, the tenants killed him, too. Their sin had corrupted their minds to the point they were not able to think clearly (this happens with any mortal sin) and they had actually convinced themselves that if…Continue Reading