Special Articles posted by Fr Tom
COMMENTARY: Healing the crippling wounds abused people suffer. By Sue Ellen Browder, August 16, 2019 I met my beloved husband, Walter, in 1966 at the University of Missouri, where he was studying to be a chemical engineer and I was enrolled in the School of Journalism, hoping to earn a living as a magazine writer. … [Read more…]
Although it is not mentioned in scripture, the Assumption of Mary has been a solidly held belief of our faith since apostolic times. It has been celebrated liturgically since the 6th century AD. The Assumption of Mary was declared a dogma (a divinely revealed truth) of the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XII in 1950 … [Read more…]
Martin Pistorius hates Barney. And it’s no wonder why. For 12 years, while he was in a coma that doctors described as a “vegetative state,” nurses, thinking that he couldn’t see or hear anything, played endless re-runs of Barney as he sat, strapped into his wheel chair. But Martin wasn’t the “vegetable” that doctors said … [Read more…]
A mountaintop encounter with Jesus and his apostles holds valuable lessons for all followers of Christ. All three synoptic gospels tell the story of the transfiguration of Jesus. The transfiguration is a highly symbolic story. Jesus took his inner circle of apostles -Peter, James, and John – up a mountain, which in the Bible is a … [Read more…]
Respecting our differences, even if we don’t always see eye-to-eye. Excerpts taken from an article by Beth Baumann, July 2019 Former “Dirty Jobs” host, Mike Rowe has a keen understanding of American history and he recently took to Facebook to answer one of his followers’ questions: why on earth would Nike listen to washed up … [Read more…]
Why So Many Mass Shootings? Ask The Right Questions And You Might Find Out! An edited article by Dennis Prager This past weekend, Americans learned of another mass shooting, this time by an employee who decided to murder as many of the people he had worked with for years as possible. Americans asks why. Human beings … [Read more…]
You surely have noted how many are being cremated these days (something the Church has previously wavered about but now fully accepts), and how many, mainly outside of Catholicism, are having their ashes scattered in various and sundry imaginative places. The Church tells us we can’t simply scatter “cremains,” admonishing us to find a particularly … [Read more…]