8th Sunday after Pentecost
How important is charity for the traditional Catholic? (Sorry I spoke too close to the mike. I'll avoid this next time.)
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07, 2016
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07, 2016
Padre Fortea
https://youtu.be/9pehy_fNNNs
30
06, 2016
Four Persons. One Location
What four people on the edge of despair found in common... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1GMA8JSD4Y
29
06, 2016
7th Sunday after Pentecost: How to be saved
This podcast is about what you must do to be saved.
28
06, 2016
On Eternal Rome
This is an edited re-post of a little-known blog I wrote when I was last in Rome. I originally called it "Peter and Paul" but two other titles that fit are: "Why Eternal Rome will Triumph over Temporary Rome" or "Why the hierarchical Church was no different from the charismatic Church." Most of us Americans picture the early Christians of Rome being physically underground but spiritually free. Then, everything changed in 313 when Constantine’s edict of Milan reversed the course of history, allowing Christians to be physically “above-ground” but spiritually oppressed by the Emperor and Pope who inadvertently became strange bedfellows. The idea of the pre-edict-of-Milan Christians being “more free” [...]
23
06, 2016
Catholic “Vulnerability”
I had abdominal surgery two weeks ago, so I got sent home with some narcotics. I wasn’t in much physical pain, but I noticed there was a lot of psychological relief in taking the narcotics. I was anxious for an upcoming meeting, so I found myself taking hydrocodone for the calming effects more than for the physical recovery. Any reader who had been in medicine for even a short time should be able to see the alarms of pre-addiction in the previous three sentences. Happily, I caught this too and never finished my prescription. (And the meeting went very well, too. Of course, this had nothing to do with the [...]
19
06, 2016
Is Your Marriage Valid?
I know this isn't the most romantic question on father's day, but as a spiritual father to biological fathers, I think you'll find this very encouraging by the end of the article. First, we must understand that it is God who forms the bond of a sacramental marriage when two people in freedom say "I do" and consummate the sacrament that night. Secondly, what is often called “an annulment” among Catholics is actually better described as a “declaration of nullity.” When a forlorn couple asks their diocese to investigate if they were ever married, the diocese may find real problems and declare it “null.” These problems have to be pre-existent [...]
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04, 2016
Polish and American Catholicism
NB I was asked why I took down my last post. The reason I removed it is because I believe my impact on that topic will be greater at a more strategic time. I'm under no prohibitions to blog. After all this, I still have no fear to proclaim the truth...but I sense in prayer that my soapbox must wait in order to affect more people after my medical leave is finished (even if my only remaining podium be the internet.) Like my first great Jesuit spiritual director (Fr. Ralph Drendel SJ) my second great Jesuit has gone to his eternal reward. Late Thursday night Fr. Raymond Gawronski SJ, went before [...]
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12, 2015
Christmas Homily 2015
This is the 7-minute version of the homily I gave for Christmas, today at the home of a family outside of DC (see above picture for the outside of their home on this tropical 70 degree Christmas outside the Capital.) It was originally slated for my very first Missa Solemnis at midnight south of here.
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12, 2015
Immaculate Conception Homily
A lot is covered in this homily, but it all has to do with Jesus and Mary and you.