For many reasons I have wanted to start a discussion about Humanae Vitae. That 1968 document from Pope Paul VI, to me, gets at the core of everything that has gone wrong with sexual mores - rather sexual immorality, sexual confusion, and now 21st century sexual Gnosticism - in the past 60 years. What follows …
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This Essay has been co-authored by Fr. Timothy Naples and Joseph P. Blanchette The book Male, Female, Other? A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender, by Jason Evert, is becoming the topic of Catholic book groups in Vermont. Catholics are recognizing the devastating effects Transgenderism is having among our youth, completely distorting God’s beautiful gifts of human …
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Several “service trips” from Rice High School have gone to Peru in the past decades. In our 2024 (Feb. 22nd-March 3rd) service trip, our 9 Rice students, 3 chaperones, and 1 priest (yours truly), made the trek to work at two service locations. Personal accounts of mine follow. {Note: some of the inserted pictures are …
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A completed series of Scriptural lessons is posted on a playlist in my YouTube Channel. They are Eucharistic Reflections on the Acts of the Apostles. The final one has been finished, here in Lent 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AMj0rsMLE&list=PLPhaJuyvd13dXlzhI9ryz4xVq17nfvyVl The entire playlist covers the following: Basic Scriptures in Luke and Acts about the Eucharist The Ascension and the …
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Link to Page 49 of the latest Vermont Catholic Magazine As promised... brief follow up article on "what does the word 'Mass" means."
Hello all, My article here was published in the May 2022 issue of the Vermont Catholic Magazine. I am re-posting it here and now, because I have a "part II" in the next Vermont Catholic Magazine, fall edition. Please read on. It is not very long. https://www.vermontcatholic.org/uncategorized/why-do-we-call-the-mass-the-mass/ I will share the upcoming article (same topic) …
This morning I was reading The City of God by venerable Mary of Agreda. I would say forthrightly the chapter I read was more engaging and more thought-provoking than the TV series The Chosen. That's my context for the question. Are you a fan of The Chosen? The first clarification is that I like The …
We confess with full religious conviction that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was born as a man, that is, he was male, with the bodily constitution for the capacity to become a biological father. It is attested by Scripture and Tradition that Jesus lived a life of sexual celibacy, which did not repudiate the …
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This Mass for Holy Thursday captures historically three themes of our salvation. The first one is the presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. This is something that could be emphasized in any particular Mass; but, Holy Thursday IS when Jesus first gave the Eucharist to us, as a gift of love, the sacrament of …
Blessed memorial of Saint Athanasius. John 1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Back in the 4th century A.D., the heretic Arius used Biblical references to Sophia/Wisdom to say that the Word/Logos was an angelic creature: not God. The Logos, said Arius, was …
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