Category: Know Your Faith
Know Your Faith – Papal Infallibility
The “Know Your Faith” series was originally published as a column I wrote in St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Omaha’s bulletin. I will slowly make some of the better ones available on this site. The teaching of papal infallibility is a teaching of the Church with which many people…
The Contagion of Sin – What Covid-19 teaches us about sin.
For your part, you must strive to bring them up in the faith, so that this divine life may be preserved from the contagion of sin, and may grow in them day by day. Baptismal Rite Revised 2020 Beginning Easter of 2020 priest and deacons will be required to use…
Mary Did You Know, that this song would deny your Immaculate Conception
Around this time of the year we begin to hear some beautiful hymnody for both the Advent and Christmas season. One song that we hear often, and I would admit is a beautiful melody, has damaging implications of theology. Some may think that it is nitpicking point out the…
Anxiety Over Forgiven Sin is not God’s Will.
A middle aged woman is guilt ridden by past sin. Anxiety plays the reel over and over in her mind: What she did, What she should have done… In her mind she continues to tell herself: “This is the cross the Lord has asked me to carry because of the…
Expecting Immediate Change – Recovery from vice in football and spiritual life
After the 0-6 start in Nebraska’s 2018 season, Coach Scott Frost made a memorable quote. “Culture eats scheme for breakfast!” (TheSpun). While critics spoke of schemes from the AAC not being able to work in the Big Ten, Coach Frost focused on a culture that had been formed in Lincoln…