The Ordinary Holiness of Fr. Kenneth Walker
“Come, follow me.” These are the words of Jesus to Peter, a fisherman casting his net into the Sea of Galilee. “Get up and go.”…
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Why does Jesus ask Peter, “Do you love me?” three times?
Jesus did not ask Peter this question three times because he was hard of hearing or slow to comprehend Peter’s answers. Watch the video to…
What is hell?
What does Church catechism tell us about the nature of hell? Is it the hell we see represented in popular culture like the fiery caves…
The Abuse Scandal, Peter’s Denial, and Pointing at the Moon
This homily was given on the Tuesday of Holy Week based on the Gospel reading for the day: Peter’s Denial of Jesus. The text can…
100 words (give or take) on… Bishops
A bishop is a priest who receives “the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders” (CCC, 1557) and is the visible head of a particular…
Out of Our Comfort Zone
I love rocking chairs. Whenever I go on retreat, as I did last week, I hope that they have a rocking chair at the retreat…
At what point does my disagreement with the church’s teachings become a break with the church itself?
The first big conflict in the Church was over whether to admit Gentiles to baptism, without binding them to practice all the laws of Moses,…
Smashed at the Vatican
The Vatican is the smallest country in the world. Until recently, I always thought of that fact as a neat bit of trivia and nothing…
