Like the apostles, I first said “yes” to Christ because of the total answer he provided for my human need, and only within this context did a specific vocation to serve as a priest gradually begin to reveal itself. Christ calling the … [Read more...]
Articles
Should Catholics Acquiesce in Today’s Homosexual “Rights” Agenda?
June 22, 2012 by Kenneth D. Whitehead
Christians, including Catholics, are acquiescing, and even favoring, the idea that homosexual behavior must be considered, at least, morally neutral...and must be considered something to which those, so inclined, have a right. One of … [Read more...]
Revisiting the Anointing of the Sick: Some Problems Today
June 16, 2012 by Fr. Mark A. Pilon
The Church needs to clarify the administration of the sacrament of the anointing of the sick for a number of reasons. In 1974, when I was a deacon in Texas, a priest from Fort Worth came to Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas to speak to … [Read more...]
Human Rights and Natural Law
June 15, 2012 by Archbishop Rino Fisichella
There is an ethical concept which man recognizes, in and of itself, without mediation...recognized in an almost instinctive way, and as a norm to abide by, in order to live according to whom man is, reflected in that immense and diversified … [Read more...]
The Holy Eucharist: Central Sacrament Pre-figured in the First Passover
June 9, 2012 by Jayson M. Brunelle, MEd, CAGS
The Eucharist is the single, greatest gift Christ left to his Church, fulfilling his promise to be with us always. The Last Supper Christ’s institution of the sacrament of the Eucharist was, and is, the single, greatest gift he left t … [Read more...]
The Truth About God
June 5, 2012 by Fr. James V. Schall, SJ
The truth about God is not abolished or reduced because it is spoken in human language; rather, it is unique, full, and complete, because he who speaks and acts is the Incarnate Son of God. Thus, faith requires us to profess that the Word … [Read more...]
Growing in Love of the Lay Life: Evangelizing Martyrs
June 5, 2012 by Deacon James Keating
The Catholic laity are asked to give witness to Christ by way of obedience to objective truth. It takes a mind formed by love itself, Christ, to have the courage to preach the Gospel of Life. The nature of priesthood invites a man to … [Read more...]
Priests for the New Evangelization
June 4, 2012 by Fr. Roch Kereszty, OCist
Pope John Paul II’s personality illustrates most clearly what the ideal priest of the new millennium ought to be. His close friend and successor, Pope Benedict XVI, complements this ideal. Besides the allocutions of Popes John Paul I … [Read more...]
Prayer as the Channel of Celestial Joy
June 2, 2012 by Carolyn Humphreys, OCDS
We can accept, rather than trying to avoid, pain and trials in a spirit allowing us to offer this rarely-appreciated human gift back to God. This is the cause of St. Francis of Assisi's perfect joy. St. Francis of Assisi by Jusepe de … [Read more...]
The Eternal Priesthood of Jesus Christ
June 1, 2012 by Fr. Austin E. Green, OP
"You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” Christ Pantocrator Although there are tens of thousands of priests in the Catholic Church, there is, in the most proper sense of the word, only one Priest, and that P … [Read more...]
Honoring the Priesthood in June
June 1, 2012 by David Vincent Meconi
To those enjoying the memories, blessed anniversary! To those still relishing your freshly-chrismed hands, congratulations! As June is upon us, we at HPR would like to thank all of you who are celebrating your priestly ordinations … [Read more...]
Come, Holy Spirit!
Feast of Pentecost
May 27, 2012 by HPRweb.com
Sequence for Pentecost Veni, Sancte Spiritus, et emitte caelitus lucis tuae radium. Pentecost by Titian Come, Holy Ghost, send down those beams, which sweetly flow in silent streams from Thy bright throne … [Read more...]
The Liturgy and Divine Adoption
May 26, 2012 by Owen Vyner
God has predestined us to be adopted sons and daughters, an invitation made in and through his Son, by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is pure gift, completely and freely bestowed upon man as a grace, and received in b … [Read more...]
The First Beatitude: A Blessing to the New Evangelization
May 24, 2012 by Dr. Joseph R. Hollcraft
The quintessential focus, of identifying man’s holiness as the threshold to all evangelization, has been essential to the last four papacies because Pope Paul VI, John XXIII, Blessed John Paul, and Benedict have all stressed our call to h … [Read more...]
Liturgical Diversity in the Third Millennium
May 21, 2012 by Charles G. Mills
The liturgy in the West, today, is far richer than that set forth in the liturgical books promulgated by Pope Paul VI. In the 1970s, it was generally assumed that the liturgical reform, called for by Vatican II, had taken its final … [Read more...]
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