This past Sunday in the Roman Liturgy we celebrated the 2nd Sunday of Lent. The psalm for this past Sunday was Psalm 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19. When I walked into Mass at […]
Psalm 116 – Walking Before the LORD
Tom Perna
Holiness and Martyrdom as a Catholic in America
When Cardinal Timothy Dolan received his red hat on February 18, he said that he was grateful to the Holy Father for giving him this honor, but he just wants to be […]
Psalm 25 – Make Me To Know Your Ways, O Lord…
Continuing with the same theme of sin and forgiveness, I wish to write a short reflection on Psalm 25. Since we are in Lent, this is theme that will continue through this […]
Psalm 51 – Have Mercy on Me, O God…
Now that we are officially into the season of Lent, I wanted to write on something that would be beneficial to this Lenten season and really anytime we have sinned and are […]
Ash Wednesday and Lent Explained in 120 Seconds
This is a great explanation of Ash Wednesday and Lent in only 120 Seconds by Busted Halo. We must remember that Lent is not just about giving something up, BUT IT’S CONFORMING […]
Psalm 41 – A Plea for Healing
As many of you will remember, Psalm 41: 2-3, 4-5, 13-14 was the Responsorial Psalm at the Roman Rite Liturgy yesterday – the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. I am choosing to […]
Congratulations Cardinal Timothy Dolan
As I sit here watching the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of New Cardinals (DVR recording), I have to admit that I am jealous of those people sitting in St. Peter’s […]
The Rise of the Faithful Catholics
On Monday, February 13, a religious order of faithful catholic sisters released this statement – read it here. I read either on Facebook or another blog the statement, why doesn’t the media […]
The Erroneous Conscience
The Erroneous Conscience is the last post in a series that I have been writing the past couple of weeks. Technically, this should be Conscience Formation 104, but I chose the title […]
Conscience Formation 103
In the previous two posts, I spoke about what conscience is not (see CF 101 – below) and what conscience is (see CF 102 – below). Now I want to focus my […]
Conscience Formation 102
I must first throw a shout-out to my favorite football team, The New York Football Giants (Big Blue, G-Men), who won Super Bowl XLVI last night. I sat home last night dressed […]
Conscience Formation 101
I am by no means a moral theologian (The Scriptures is my thing), but with the current state of affairs we Catholics are facing, I feel it’s my mission to at least […]
Dear Senator…I Want My Religious Freedom
As Catholic lay people, we must for the sake of our own conscience engage in the public square and be active members of our local communities and in the nation as a […]
The Spirit of Catholicism
It was the spring semester of 2009, I was in graduate school at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and taking Theological Foundations with Dr. Scott Hahn. One of the texts for the course […]
