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How Traditional Catholic Architecture Better Fulfills the Plan of God

Catholics have often endured the charge that we are an unbiblical Church. Strange accusation, really, for the Church that collected the Scriptures, determined the canon of Scripture and preached it for 1,500 years before there ever was a Protestant denomination. The fact is we are quite biblical and often in ways that are stunningly powerful. …

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On Being Faithful in a few things before being ruler over many things. – A Sermon for the 25th Sunday of the Year.

The Lord Jesus gives a penetrating analysis of the state of the sinner and some very sobering advice to we would-be saints in today’s Gospel. Let’s look at the Gospel in two stages: The Analysis of the Sinner and the Advice to the Saints. I. ANALYSIS OF THE SINNER – The Lord Jesus describes a …

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Stained Glass and the Book of Revelation: How our Church buildings Reflect the Heavenly Vision of St. John

Most Catholics are unaware of how our traditional church buildings are based on designs given by God himself. Designs that stretch all the way back to Mount Sinai when God set forth the design for the sanctuary in the desert and the tent of meeting. Many of the fundamental aspects of our church layouts still …

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Jesus never hesitated to preach the fear of punishment, and neither should modern preachers.

Some years ago I was stationed with a priest who, while he often liked my homilies, would often critique my use of what he called “fear based preaching.” Perhaps I had warned the congregation of punishment for sin, or even let slip that certain things were mortal sins that would exclude one from heaven and …

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Are We "Down with the People" or Up with the Cross? A Call to Courage in Preaching the Cross

Some forty years ago the Venerable Bishop Fulton J Sheen admonished the priests of his day in these words: We become real priests when we empty ourselves, and no longer seek our [own] identity, and where we are lifted up to the cross, not going “down to people.” Too many of us today feel we …

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Jesus, Who loves you, warned of Hell – A Catalogue of Jesus’ Warning texts.

Many people today put Hell in opposition to the love of God. But Jesus combines them. Here is an important truth: No one loves you more than Jesus Christ. And yet, no one spoke of or taught on Hell and Judgment more than Jesus Christ. There is from him, warning after warning, parable after parable, …

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