Letter from the Pastor

               How long has it been since you attended a formal banquet?  For some it’s possibly been a long time.  Maybe it even goes back to high school and the senior prom.  However long it’s been, I suppose there are certain things about the occasion that you still remember – the person with whom you attended, the dress or suit that you wore, the flowers that you kept and may even still have, pressed between the pages of a book.                 I hope everyone has at least one memory like that.  For one thing, […]

          For many centuries, people believed that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun revolved around it. Then here came along a Polish astronomer named Copernicus, who held on to a different theory. He believed that the sun was the center of our solar system, and that the earth and all other planets within the system were revolving around the sun. Almost no one agreed with him. His theory was so unpopular and revolutionary that he was afraid to release it. But shortly before his death in the sixteenth century, he […]

          There are several ways of thinking about and looking at Christianity.  We can see it as an ecclesiastical structure, with two thousand years of history behind it and millions of members belonging to it.  We can think of it as a theological system that holds to certain basic ideas about God and about life.  We can look upon it as a moral and ethical standard that calls for the highest kind of conduct that the world has ever known.            All of these are valid views of Christianity; but in its […]

ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Remarks of Robert P. George, Professor at Princeton University – National Catholic Prayer Breakfast             The days of socially acceptable Christianity are over.  The days of comfortable Catholicism are past.  It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic witness to the truths of the Gospel.  A price is demanded.  There are costs of discipleship – heavy costs.           Of course, one can still safely identify oneself as a “Catholic”, and even be seen going to mass.  That is because the […]

                We, Catholics, have let our secular society give us a kind of inferiority complex.  We too often speak and act as if the biblical understanding of man and woman and of human society were in some way inferior, or as if it were somehow unfair for us to advance our religious views and values in the public arena.                 We need to remind ourselves that our Christian perspective on life does not originate with Christians, but with Christ, the Son of our Creator.  It was God who created the human race, who […]