What Evangelicals Can Learn From Catholics
The biggest thing that Evangelicals can learn from Catholics is how to worship … liturgy, when celebrated reverently, can also give worshipers a connection to the sacred that is just not available...
View ArticleOn a Small Point of Doctrine
He (Sir Thomas More) gave up life itself, deliberately; he accepted violent death as of a criminal, not even for the Faith as a whole, but on one particular, small point of doctrine—to wit, the...
View ArticleThe Beauty That Beckons Us - An Introduction to the Theology of Fr. John...
An Introduction to the Theology of Fr. John Navone, S.J. (Part 2)(As HPR’s way of honoring the lifelong work of our brother Jesuit, Fr. John Navone, S.J., we are running an essay in two parts by...
View ArticleThe Merciful Call to Holiness - Addressing the Dualism Between Mercy and...
Addressing the Dualism Between Mercy and Doctrine in Cardinal Kasper’s ProposalEver since it was first floated in his 1977 work, Cardinal Walter Kasper’s proposal to apply mercy to those suffering...
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Question: Could Jesus perform miracles of his own accord? Did he not empty himself and rely on the Father as we do by faith? We are to have faith to move mountains. What better way to make the point...
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Question: Can you define the sensus fidelium, and explain why it can’t be used to dissent from Catholic teaching? Answer: The term sensus fidelium (understanding of the faithful) has led to a great...
View ArticleHoly Communion and the Importance of Marriage
As is now widely known, there have been calls from some high-ranking prelates, chief among them Cardinal Walter Kasper, to reconsider the Catholic Church’s practice with regard to holy communion for...
View ArticleDivorce, Remarriage, and “Discerning the Body” - On Pope Francis’...
On Pope Francis’ Interpretation of 1 Cor 11:27-34 in Amoris LaetitiaIntroduction Over the past year since its release, Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (hereafter AL), has elicited...
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Question: Can you explain to me the problem of evil exemplified in the Book of Job? Answer: In answer to your question, I would like to summarize the Commentary on the Book of Job by Thomas Aquinas,...
View ArticleThe Flawed Strategy Behind Amoris Laetitia
Catholics continue to be confounded by the mixed signals sent by Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Given the high-ranking Church officials who have weighed in (but on opposite...
View ArticleConversion, Consecration, Communion - Movements into Salvation
The Sequence in Salvation History This sequence—Conversion, Consecration, Communion—can describe three steps in several important processes, in the Catholic Faith. Historically, it can describe periods...
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Question: A fine layman friend of mine was attending a class at a Catholic college taught by a priest who was insisting that Christ’s acquired knowledge was defective, citing Mk 2:26, when Our Lord...
View ArticleKazakhstan Bishop Schneider Broadcasts Seeds of Faith Around the World
His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C, has been referred to in the National Catholic Register as “one of the leading voices of fidelity, continuity, and tradition in the Church today.”1 In...
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Question: It is my impression that when we celebrate the Eucharist in my diocese at community Mass, Eucharistic Prayer 2 predominates. What might underlie this preference? What merit is there to...
View ArticleOn the Truth that Heals the Crisis of Marriage
Part II: On Christ’s Love of the Sinner1 Do we believe that God can act in our lives; indeed, that God can act for the benefit of everyone in our lives? In the myriad situations of life, God is not a...
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Question: Jesus says: “Judge not.” (Mt. 7:1) When are we allowed to judge? Answer: The issue of judgement is an important moral problem. Judgement is an act of the virtue of justice. Since justice...
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Question: I truly appreciate our parish priest. Everyone loves and admires him. People find it sometimes difficult to express their appreciation. How does one go about showing their appreciation for...
View ArticleA God with Skin - Recapturing the Incarnational Nature of the Sacraments
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. (Jn 1:14) Since her beginning, the Catholic Church has...
View ArticleDoes the Text of Amoris Laetitia Allow Communion for the Divorced and...
Since it came out, some have argued that Amoris Laetitia permits Communion for the divorced and remarried. This is often based on a few lines rather than going back and analyzing the text as a whole in...
View ArticleChristian Environmental Love - The Eucharist as Lamb and Predator-Prey...
The ambiance, the setting in which the human person lives, the “waters” in which we swim, is our “environment.” It represents the totality in which the human person lives, relates, and interacts. More...
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