Christmas is going to be different this year. It will be a somber and perhaps mournful season for those suffering from the multiple effects of the pandemic.
Category: Guest column
The Order of Christian Funerals: Life is changed, not ended
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end of life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.
A month to pray for all souls
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end of life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.
Commitment to the priesthood comes in stages
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| Fr. Gregory Ihm |
When a man stands as his name is called during an ordination and responds “present”; it isn’t the first time he has presented himself to the Church for ordination.
The commitment to the priesthood comes in stages.
First stage: interior journey
The first stage is the interior journey that happens before applying to the seminary. It is probably the most important/pivotal, because it makes real many aspects of the priesthood that are usually off limits in most men’s minds.
Once they wrestle with the many doubts and fears that surround it and give themselves permission to pursue a call to the priesthood there can be freedom.The issue of food and water
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Death: Our Birth into Eternal life Fr. Joseph Baker |
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end-of-life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.
Having examined when life-sustaining treatments can be discontinued or forgone, we turn to the issue of food and water.
It must be noted that food and water fundamentally differ from life-sustaining treatments.
Understanding cemetery jargon
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end of life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.
Difficult end-of-life decisions
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end of life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.
Debunking the Myths: Little Sisters of the Poor and religious liberty
As Little Sisters of the Poor, we find our joy in sharing our lives with those whom many in our society would prefer to forget — the elderly poor.
Are ‘celebrations of life’ Catholic?
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end of life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.
Seeking appropriate care
The following article is the next installment in a series that will appear in the Catholic Herald to offer catechesis and formation concerning end of life decisions, dying, death, funerals, and burial of the dead from the Catholic perspective.