Reception of Communion
Taking a “Vested” Interest in the Mass
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Last Sunday my family had a most spiritually uplifting experience at a parish church we were visiting. As we discussed our experience we came up with many things that we liked, including the beautiful church building, traditional music, solid homily, and overall sense of reverence. My children noticed one additional factor that made a difference [...]
Archbishop Chaput on “Proportionate Reasons”
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008In a previous post, I explored the issue of what would constitute a “proportionate reason” to support the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, who as of last night claims to have enough delegates to prevail at the Democratic Convention this summer. Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. of Denver recently addressed a similar issue in his archdiocesan [...]
Proud of Our Archbishop
Friday, May 9th, 2008Just a little while ago, I picked up my copy of The Leaven, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, and went straight to Archbishop Joseph Naumann’s column, which dealt with the issue of giving Holy Communion to our pro-abortion Catholic governor, Kathleen Sebelius. It is in some sense “hard-hitting,” and necessarily [...]