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May 26, 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 postal and email addresses at the bottom of this column. Special Course On Catholicism And Scripture (Chapter 20) After three years of public life, the time had arrived for Jesus to suffer excruciating abuse, torture, and death, all within a period of less than twenty-four hours. His Passion began around midnight, shortly after the Last Supper had ended, as He led the Apostles outside the city of Jerusalem to a place known as the Garden of Gethsemane. On the way, He…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… On Your Wedding Day

May 25, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… On Your Wedding Day

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK On this splendid day, for which you have waited with joyful anticipation, you are surrounded by many of those you love, and who love you: family and friends. We share your joy to see this moment, when your love for one another will begin a new and deeper reality: the ultimate sharing. The uniting of your bodies and souls.Love seeks union, to be with the one who is loved. You indeed love each other very much. It is part of loving to want to give more and more. You want to be together, for all of life, with all that entails. Love gives all. This is indeed a beautiful gift.But that of itself does not…Continue Reading

Lessons Of Love — A Homily For The Sixth Sunday Of Easter

May 24, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Lessons Of Love — A Homily For The Sixth Sunday Of Easter

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Pope posted this May 13 commentary on his website, and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + In the Gospel for today’s Mass, Jesus gives us three lessons on love meant to prepare us for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. They also go a long way in describing the normal Christian life.Too many Christians see the Faith more as a set of rules to keep than as a love that transforms — if we accept it. Let’s take a look at the revolutionary life of love and grace that the Lord is offering us in three stages: the power of love, the person of love, and the proof of…Continue Reading

California To Pay $300K . . . For Trying To Force Religious Doctors To End Patients’ Lives

May 23, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on California To Pay $300K . . . For Trying To Force Religious Doctors To End Patients’ Lives

LOS ANGELES — In a victory for religious medical professionals, the state of California will no longer force doctors to participate in physician-assisted suicide against their religious convictions and professional ethics. To settle a lawsuit brought by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a doctor and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, California has also agreed to pay $300,000 toward the doctors’ attorneys’ fees and costs.As part of the settlement, California state officials agreed to not enforce “any criminal or civil punishment, including professional discipline or licensing sanction for a California-licensed physician’s refusal or failure to” “document a request, refer, or assist a patient in any way with ending his life.“Our clients seek to live out their faith in their medical…Continue Reading

How Is The Holy Spirit Acting In Me?

May 22, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on How Is The Holy Spirit Acting In Me?

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Solemnity Of Pentecost (YR A) Readings: Acts 2:1-111 Cor. 12:3b-7, 12-13John 20:19-23 In the second reading, St. Paul tells us that no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. We need to make a distinction here. First of all, anyone could read the above sentence, even out loud, whether the person has the Holy Spirit or not. However, no one can say with conviction that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.What this means requires another distinction. The first point is similar to what Jesus said to St. Peter when St. Peter proclaimed Jesus to be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus told St. Peter that flesh and blood had…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

May 19, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Catholic Replies

Q. When Jesus met Mary Magdalene shortly after He rose from the dead, He told her not to touch Him because He has not yet ascended to the Father. Later on, however, He tells Thomas to put his fingers into the nail wounds. This is confusing to me. — S.S., via e-mail.A. Recall that Jesus’ interaction with Thomas was seven days after His meeting with Magdalene. Presumably, He ascended to the Father after His encounter with Mary. The event that we call the Ascension forty days after Easter marks the end of His earthly appearances and His promise to send the Holy Spirit, who will enable the Apostles to be “my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to…Continue Reading

Pilgrimage And The Month Of Our Lady

May 18, 2023 Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Pilgrimage And The Month Of Our Lady

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Our life of faith is a pilgrimage from Earth to Heaven. From the moment of our Baptism, with our first steps, we begin that most important journey of each human life. That we remember we have here no lasting city is urged upon us frequently by Our Lord, who taught that His Kingdom is “not of this world.” So, we must each, if we would have part with Him forever in His Kingdom, begin now to live with the daily practice of detachment.In our Church, the place of faith, processions and pilgrimages of various kinds symbolize and help us to reflect on the cosmic nature of our destiny with God after death and final judgment.…Continue Reading

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