Questions Answered: - Donating one's body for research? And, Sacrament of...
Donating one's body for research? And, Sacrament of Reconciliation for those already baptized who are received into the Church at Easter Vigil? Question: Can Catholics donate their bodies for...
View ArticleLas Presentaciones: A Vibrant Hispanic Tradition
This principally Mexican tradition of the presenting of a child to God, and to the Church, stems from a strong desire by parents to ask for divine protection for their newborn, and thanksgiving for a...
View ArticleThe Need for Liturgy Within Parish Catechetical Programs
Some pastors have experienced people who register in the parish, and go to Mass for a short period of time, but leave once they get what they want: their wedding at their dream church, parish...
View ArticleQuestions Answered - January 2014
January 2014 What do you say to a non-Catholic man who received questionable advice from a priest about his marriage to a Catholic woman, and now wants to become Catholic as well? How engaged should...
View ArticleSacred Tradition: The Forgotten Doctrine?
The miracle and mystery of divine guidance has been the primary constituent element of Church teaching over the centuries, and this guidance is what makes Tradition “sacred,” but rarely is it linked...
View ArticleThe Awe-Inspiring Mysteries: The Importance of Mystagogy
(This title is inspired by Edward Yarnold’s The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation: Baptismal Homilies of the Fourth Century (Slough, Great Britain: St. Paul Publications, 1971), the title of which is...
View ArticleQuestions Answered
Question: At the Easter Vigil, it is sometimes the practice that protestants are received into full ecclesiastical communion, and then receive Communion. Now, neophytes are baptized at the Vigil, with...
View ArticleEarly Summer Reading
I Burned for Your Peace. Augustine’s Confessions Unpacked by Peter Kreeft. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016). Reviewed by Matthew K. Minerd, Ph.L. Desiring a Better Country: Forays in Political...
View ArticleThe Mystagogical Tradition
“Mystagogy” is a word that some parishes hear during Easter Time, and is often associated with the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Yet, a proper understanding of mystagogy provides...
View ArticleThe Sacrament of Reconciliation, the Needed Sacrament
Do you often look out over your congregation assembled for Mass, and wonder where and when the majority go to Confession? Do you, bishop . . . priest . . . deacon . . . inform your parishioners...
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