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A Leaven In The World… “Politicizing” The Eucharist

November 5, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… “Politicizing” The Eucharist

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Joe Biden owes Fr. Robert Morey a “thank you.” The Internet exploded last week with the news that Fr. Morey of South Carolina had “denied” the Eucharist to Biden at a parish Sunday Mass there. Biden is known to attend Mass frequently, if not weekly. Priests in other locations have been told in no uncertain terms that they are to give the Eucharist to Biden. Or else. What Fr. Morey did was to refuse to politicize the Eucharist — despite longstanding claims in high places otherwise — instead putting Biden and his salvation before every other consideration. The Catholic faith is not a superstition and the Eucharist is not an anti-death pill that communicates the…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . Guard The Deposit Of Faith

November 4, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . Guard The Deposit Of Faith

By BISHOP JOSEPH STRICKLAND On November 28, 2012, His Eminence Cardinal Daniel DiNardo ordained me as the Fourth Catholic Bishop of Tyler, Texas in a small auditorium just down the street from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and its parish elementary school, St. Gregory. The auditorium was very familiar to me because on several occasions I had joined the students in their annual musicals in the same auditorium. But, on this day, the children joined me on what is likely the most important day of my life. It was on that stage in front of 1,800 people that His Eminence, during the Rite of Ordination, asked me several questions, two of which are vital to my mission as a…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

November 1, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

  Editor’s Note: In his weekly bulletin at the Church of St. Michael in New York City, Fr. George Rutler included a statement from St. John Henry Newman that is as appropriate today as it was when he wrote it a century and a half ago: “What is the world’s religion now? It has taken the brighter side of the gospel, its tidings of comfort, its precepts of love; all darker, deeper views of man’s condition and prospects being comparatively forgotten. This is the religion natural to a civilized age and well has Satan dressed and completed it into an idol of the Truth….Our manners are courteous; we avoid giving pain or offence…religion is pleasant and easy; benevolence is the…Continue Reading

Dutch Bishop Says… Amazon Synod’s “Politically Correct” Agenda Ignores Christ

October 30, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Dutch Bishop Says… Amazon Synod’s “Politically Correct” Agenda Ignores Christ

By JEANNE SMITS NETHERLANDS (LifeSiteNews) — In two searing blog posts published on September 28 and October 21, Bishop Robert Mutsaerts of the Netherlands voiced his concerns over the Amazon Synod taking place in Rome, accusing it of pushing a “hidden agenda.” In his column “Paarse pepers” (“Purple Peppers”) Vitamine XP — a Dutch-speaking blog run by several Catholic priests, including Mutsaerts — the bishop wrote that the Amazon Synod is “the most politically correct meeting of all time.” According to Bishop Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), the Church is busy with something other than its “core” mission, which is to lead people to Christ and to obtain salvation and forgiveness for sins. His pithy remarks are all…Continue Reading

Live According To Your Dignity

October 29, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Live According To Your Dignity

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirty-First Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: Wisdom 11:22-12:2 2 Thess. 1:11-2:2 Luke 19:1-10 The first reading includes some great lines on which we can meditate with great benefit: “You love all things that are and you loathe nothing you have made, for what you hated you would not have fashioned. And how could a thing remain unless you willed it, or be preserved unless it had been called forth by you?” Sometimes we may think we are worthless or, even worse, that God doesn’t love us. However, these thoughts have no truth to them. When we read that God loves everything He made, this should bring great consolation. Moreover, God made us in His…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… The Tradition Is Fine: Come On In

October 28, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… The Tradition Is Fine: Come On In

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK If you want to see how rich and varied is the human family, spend some time in Rome on a bustling Wednesday morning when the Pope, if he is in town, holds the weekly general audience. The Udienza Generale is the opportunity for anyone from anywhere, and everywhere, to see the Pope while visiting the Eternal City. Rich and poor, high and low, all nationalities and many different religions stream from all over the city to crowd into St. Peter’s Square (which is in reality circular) to catch a glimpse, no matter how brief, of the widely acknowledged leader of world Christianity. Those with faith, and without, seek to touch the supernatural on Earth by…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

October 25, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: Commenting on the moral darkness afflicting our society today, Fr. George Rutler wrote in his parish bulletin (Church of St. Michael in New York City) that “Christ is the original light of the world, uncreated, and from whom all earthly light proceeds. Without Christ, the intellect darkens, and this moral myopia is the affliction of our present time. Celebrities illuminated by stage lights can utter some of the darkest blasphemies against human dignity. Professors who think of themselves as ‘bright’ can obscure the logic of their students. When the lights of truth go out, and the corridors of civilization fill with the smoke of Satan, the only sure guides are the prophets and the saints.” Fr. Rutler said…Continue Reading

Things Worth Dying For: The Nature Of A Life Worth Living

October 23, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Things Worth Dying For: The Nature Of A Life Worth Living

By MOST REV. CHARLES J. CHAPUT, OFM Cap. (Editor’s Note: Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., of Philadelphia delivered the following address at the University of Notre Dame on October 11, 2019. The Wanderer is reprinting it here with the kind permission of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia: all rights reserved.) + + + I want to thank Dr. Munoz, Fr. Jenkins, and the Napa Institute Forum for welcoming me to Notre Dame today — and you, for being here. The fact that anyone would turn out for a talk with the word “dying” in the title, especially on the eve of an SC game, proves that miracles still happen. I turned 75 a couple of weeks ago and, as Canon…Continue Reading

God Loves All Infinitely

October 22, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on God Loves All Infinitely

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Thirtieth Sunday In Ordinary Time (YR C) Readings: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 2 Tim. 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 In the first reading Sirach states that the Lord is a God of justice who knows no favorites. When we look at people like Our Blessed Lady and the saints, it is hard to say that God did not somehow favor them above others. Well, He did. Then how can we say He knows no favorites? The fact is, God loves everyone infinitely. The love He pours upon His Mother is the same as the love He pours upon you and me. Because we are finite and the love God gives us is infinite, His love overflows the capacity…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… Christus Vincit

October 21, 2019 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… Christus Vincit

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK I find myself in Italy simultaneously with the occurrence of the Amazon Synod. I will not land in Rome until closer to the end of October, the second week of pilgrimage with a group of American faithful. I am writing from Assisi where the Gospel found a new and dynamic herald in the “Poverello” who renounced wealth and privilege for love of the Lord and the rebuilding of the Church in obedience to His command. St. Francis blazed with Christian integrity, spreading the reign of Christ through truth. He declared in his canticle of Brother Sun, “Woe to those who die in mortal sin!” Detachment from worldly riches is for the sake of giving first…Continue Reading