Author Archive for Fr. Rick Heilman
Help! My Children Aren’t Catholic Anymore!
From Fr. Longnecker: I’m in Indianapolis Indiana leading a parish mission this week, and in the meet and greet session afterwards, the most common conversation I have is with middle aged women who say, “Father, what can I do, my children have stopped practicing the faith!” or they tell me how their children have married [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 4
From Fr. Longnecker: Cut Off Catholicism vs. Continuous Catholicism In the midst of composing this series on what’s killing American Catholicism I am not only reading George Weigel’s Evangelical Catholicism and Sherrie Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples but on the flight out to Indianapolis read Russell Shaw’s American Church — The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 3
From Fr. Longnecker: What’s killing American Catholicism? This is the third part of a series. The problems all begin with the letter ‘C’. The first part was Cultural Catholicism. The problem when people are more cultural than Catholic. The Catholic faith transcends culture, and if it is linked too closely to culture, when the immigrant stops being [...]
Catholic Answers: Homosexuality
From Catholic Answers: Every human being is called to receive a gift of divine sonship, to become a child of God by grace. However, to receive this gift, we must reject sin, including homosexual behavior—that is, acts intended to arouse or stimulate a sexual response regarding a person of the same sex. The Catholic Church teaches [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 2
From Fr. Longnecker: I’m continuing a series on things that are destroying American Catholicism. They all begin with the letter ‘C’–as does the solution to the problem. You can use the ‘Categories’ tool to pull up the whole series as they are written. Here is a link to the first article in the series on Cultural Catholicism [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 1
From Fr. Longnecker: Reading Sherry Weddell’s excellent Forming Intentional Disciples is making me think about the American church and what ails her. Can anybody deny that there is a sickness in the body ecclesia? When 50% of Catholics vote for a man who stoutly defends same sex marriage and partial birth abortion can we say that Catholics [...]
BREAKING: PENTAGON CONFIRMS MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH
From Breitbart: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis…”. The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian [...]
What Vatican II Did Not Say
From Matt Fradd: Sacrosanctum Concilium is the Vatican II document that dealt specifically with the reform of the liturgy. Due to the great confusion many people have regarding the changes implemented by Vatican II, allow me to point to three things which the constitution did not say. 1. Abolish Latin in the liturgy In paragraph 54 [...]
Cardinal Kasper Admits to Intentional Ambiguities in Vatican II
From The Bellarmine Report: Cardinal Walter Kasper made the long-awaited admission in L’Osservatore Romano on April 12, 2013 that Vatican II was created with ambiguities and contradictory statements for the precise purpose of fomenting division between the liberal and conservative ranks of the Catholic prelature. Here are some choice excerpts from the article: “In many places, [the [...]
On Correcting Deviant Liturgical Customs
From Corpus Christi Watershed: In my last blog, I talked about the phenomenon, quite common today, of those who would delay or oppose the correction of liturgical abuses or imperfections because they feel that people’s feelings will be hurt or that they will be confused by “more change.” While I grant that too much change too [...]
