How many times is Cardinal Dolan going position himself to get made a fool of? He seems to have some sort of strange notion that these politician’s words can be trusted. He reminds of Charlie Brown trying to kick the football from under Lucy’s finger.

This week Human Life International (HLI) called on the Catholic Bishop Conferences that have allowed the use of the Abortion Drug Cocktail (commonly called ‘Plan B’) to discontinue this allowance based upon relevant science through the lens of orthodox Catholic moral theology.

I’ve written five very easy methods through which anyone can respond to the call to share the faith in these new spaces for evangelization without much effort at all.

Graduation season is upon us again. It’s that time of the year when some Catholic Universities decide that it’s actually a good idea to give people who believe the complete opposite as we do about things like abortion and marriage, the honor and platform of giving the keynote address at commencement.

It is impossible to be obedient to God without loving Him, and it is impossible to love God without being obedient to Him. Yet, it is when grace works in us to knit the two together that the work of God conforming us to the image of His Son becomes more evident to us and to others.

The call of today’s Gospel is for us to continue to work to examine self and environment along the simple boundary that Christ Jesus gave us to do so – ‘Have you loved others, as I loved you?’

This brief article is going to look at what the Catholic Church teaches about the Sacrament of th Holy Eucharist (also called Communion meal) and compare it to what the Fathers of the Church taught and wrote on this subject, to demonstrate the consistency of our doctrine.

On Friday, April 19, 2013 we had a special episode of Prolife with Catherine. This was a very most informative broadcast that everyone should take a moment to listen to. The fact that the nature of evil knows no bounds finds its evidence at Gosnell’s House of Horrors.

Christ Jesus bestowed upon the Apostle Simon Peter a particular ministry, that he and all those who would succeed him as the Vicar of Christ on Earth would carry out. This reflection concerns the Second Confession of Saint Peter. Attached to that confession is the duty for Simon Peter and his successors in the Peterine Ministry to be the servant, slave, and friend of all creatures of God.

What the Divine and human authors intended to communicate through this encounter with YHWH and Moses is that the essence of the name of God is who God is in praxis. God actually is who He says He is.

On Sunday, April 7, 2013 I chatted with author Gary B. Agee, PhD about his book, A Cry for Justice – Daniel Rudd and His Life in Black Catholicism, Journalism, and Activism 1854 – 1933. In this book Agee documents the life of Daniel Rudd, who was born a slave in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1854 – valued at $250, and by 1889 would become one of the nation’s best-known Black Catholics.

The feast of Divine Mercy, as recorded in the diary of Saint Faustina, receives from Jesus himself the promise that the soul that goes to Sacramental Confession (the confession may take place some days before), and receive Holy Eucharistic on that day, shall obtain the total forgiveness of all sins and punishment. Additionally, the Catholic Church grants a plenary indulgence (observing the usual rules) with the recitation of some simple prayers.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the Body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took His body.