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Early Suggestions on How Our Parishes Can Observe Divine Mercy Sunday This Year
The feast is intended to highlight divine mercy as God's greatest attribute, the crowning work" of all his works. As such, it should form a Catholic's spiritual attitudes and behaviors. Divine Mercy image of Christ. Each … continue reading..
The Latest Book Reviews
Late-Winter Reading for March 2014 A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching. By Kevin E. McKenna, revised ed. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2013), 192 pp., $16.95. (Reviewed by Rev. John J. Conley, … continue reading..
What Happened to Catholic Ireland: An Irish-American Historian’s View
Just like the Church in the United States, the Irish Church is enduring hard times. However, what makes it so upsetting in Ireland ... is the disappearance of what had been a Catholic society. When first coming to Ireland … continue reading..
Why the Jews Are Not the Enemies of the Church
It is not true, in any sense, that the Jews are the enemies of the Church, and the characterization of them as enemies... (is) unjust. It is worthwhile explaining why this is so, because (it was) once widely held, and is still … continue reading..
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Our Lenten Imitation of Christ
...Lent is a time of imitating Christ ... a plan to follow Christ, led by the Spirit, to wherever he desires to take us. For the Church’s Season of Lent this year, Pope Francis has invited us all to reflect on the … continue reading..
Lent: A Time for Conversion
Each and every day, we have the opportunity to be converted, to draw closer to Christ, and to better, and to more fully understand, our Christian responsibility to complete Jesus’ work in our world. Many years ago, while … continue reading..
Recent & Upcoming Homilies
Homilies for February 2014
For Sunday Liturgies and Feasts Homilies for February 2014 The Presentation of the Child Jesus in the … more...
Homilies for January 2014
For Sunday Liturgies and Feasts Homilies for January 2014 St. John Bosco's dream Octave Day of the … more...
Homilies for December 2013
For Sunday Liturgies and Feasts Homilies for December 2013 1st Sunday of Advent—December 1, … more...
Recent HPR Editorials
Our Lenten Imitation of Christ
...Lent is a time of imitating Christ ... a plan to follow Christ, led … more...
The Papacy: The Person Versus The Office
What draws the secular media to the Vatican ... (for now) is the man … more...
1 Kings 13 and the Child of Isaiah 7: Precedence and the Numerology of Matthew’s Gospel
By Matthew Tsakanikas, STD
...(Pope Benedict's) last book, and his announcement of his retirement, were an affirmation of the Virgin Mary’s predestination, and her child’s virginal conception at the Annunciation. ... Pope Benedict had great trust in … continue reading..