Faith Matters

What, exactly, do the Sacrament of Penance and God’s mercy have in common?

The moral life consists of people choosing actions and developing virtues that enable them to pursue their own good and the good of others so that they may enter into communion with God, their Supreme Good.

“What can I do to promote the mission of the Church amid all the confusion present in the Church and in society?” ...

The introduction to the Lectionary points out that the Sundays of Advent lead us through specific themes...

Saint Hippolytus of Rome, the second-century Christian bishop and martyr, tells a story that cannot but swells hearts of all Christian women and men.

On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that invented a “constitutional right” to abortion.

A major challenge facing the Church is the growing hostility of our culture to the teachings of Christianity on the nature of God’s creation and on His plan for man and woman as stewards of that creation.

Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, widow of the towering 20th-century philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand and herself a renowned philosophy professor and author of numerous books and articles promoting the Catholic Faith, went to the Lord on January 14 of this year.

On December 7, 1965, Pope St. Paul VI promulgated the Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World), which emphasized a theology of Christian mission, describing the Church as “leaven in the world” (GS, 40).

“And He said to them, 'Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while.’” - (Mark 6:31)

There are several places in the Gospels where our Lord tells people that their faith has healed them—or, more importantly, their faith has saved them.

Recently, a crisis pregnancy center director expressed her concern over an attitude she and her staff encounter among many of their clients.

As we consider Catholic education, we tend to focus on our elementary and secondary schools as well as colleges. One could also include CCD (or PREP), RCIA, adult education or enrichment, Pre-Jordan and Pre-Cana.

One of the kinds of uniforms we are all used to seeing are those of medical professionals who care for our needs – doctors, nurses, other medical specialists.

“Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature…” (Mark 16:15)

Once while commenting on Jesus’ teaching that “the truth will set you free,” Venerable Fulton Sheen said, “It is easy to find truth.” He quickly added, however, that “it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.”

In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul tells us, “The Gospel is the power of God for salvation” (1:16). This simple verse is rich in meaning. When Paul says “the Gospel,” he means the proclamation of what God the Father has done for us in the Person of His Son, Jesus of Nazareth, born of the Virgin Mary.

When we think of health care in America lately, at the top of our concerns is the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the leadership of President Trump, we saw a mobilization of government and the private sector unlike anything since World War II (see ProLifePresident.com), and we witnessed medical history being made by the development of vaccines in record time.

In 1996, I was a newly ordained priest at a parish in Philadelphia. There, I met a little girl named Sarah. She was 10 years old, with long dark hair and the biggest blue eyes I had ever seen. Most of her time was spent at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia because a virus had damaged her heart. She loved rainbows and had made drawings of them in crayon. They were taped to the walls of her hospital room. For six months, the entire parish prayed for Sarah’s recovery.

Unlike the rest of material creation, human beings are self-conscious, thinking beings invested with the capacity for free choice.