Pastor’s Weekly Letter

As election day draws near, I once again reprint this article I wrote some time ago.  Please think seriously about what it is placing for your consideration. Today I raise an important question: Is it proper for a Christian to vote precisely as a Christian?  That is, to make political choices based primarily on Christian values and principles? I would answer yes. Emphatically Yes!! We, Catholics, have let the secular society in which we live give us a kind of inferiority    complex. We, too often, speak and act as if the biblical understanding of man and woman and  human […]

Part one of a two part article replacing the Pastor’s Letter.

As the Scriptures tell us, on the night before He died, Jesus was deeply concerned about His disciples’ relationship with the world. As far as physical presence was concerned, He, Himself, would soon be leaving this world behind. But His followers would still be here, having to deal with the same world that had hated and crucified Him. After they had seen what the world did to Him, what would it do to them? How would they react? Perhaps they would try to run away and hide, or they might be tempted to blend in with the world. Either way the […]