This is an INCREDIBLE HOMILY. I love the witness to the Truth of our Catholic Faith with which he begins: The disciples never expected the resurrection. The unanimous testimony of all four Gospels is that the terrible death of Jesus on the cross entirely dashed all their hopes about Jesus and about his message. He was dead, and that was the end of it. They looked for nothing more, and they expected nothing more…. And they were clearly terrified that his awful fate, at the hands of the Sanhedrin and the Romans, could easily become their awful fate. So they … Continue reading
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There are a lot of people writing about the problems with the HHS mandate. The Bishops conference posted a list of things everyone should know about this mandate. Fr. Z blogged a bit on this HHS mandate and on the new Washington State unnatural marriage bill. Fr. Barron videos on the Anti-Catholic and Un-American HHS mandate. Why I am Catholic has a piece on The HHS Mandate and the Lord of the Rings that is truly marvelous. This battle is bigger than the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The Constitution merely enumerates a FEW … Continue reading
The Bishops have spoken out against the birth control and abortion mandate and urged people to take the action of signing a petition. This is a toothless effort. The time for signing petitions is long past. Petitions let people feel good about having done something when in reality they did nothing. What is needed is action with TEETH. Our representatives have voted for bad policies over and over, eroding our God-given freedoms with impunity. Catholics need to respond to these thefts with our VOTES. The incumbents are responsible for this mess– vote them out. Elected officials are failing to serve … Continue reading
Over at Fr. Z’s blog he has a number of posts on the current political climate (like this one), but I wanted to quote from this one: Archbishop Carroll’s “Prayer for Government” Let us pray: PRAYER FOR GOVERNMENT We pray, Thee O Almighty and Eternal God! Who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy, that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue with unchanging faith in the confession of Thy Name. We pray Thee, who alone art good and holy, to endow with heavenly knowledge, sincere zeal, … Continue reading