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The Church in a State of Purification: The Souls in Purgatory. Why We Pray for the Dead

11-03-2024Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

Justice and Mercy Meet

NOTE: Funeral Masses are NOT celebrations of the life of the deceased, one long eulogy! The funeral Mass is the application of the mercy of Christ’s crucifixion death, and resurrection to the deceased in the afterlife if he/she is in need of purification of their love for God.

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A Majority of Catholics No Longer Believe Jesus Is Truly Present in the Eucharist….

10-27-2024Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

Belief in the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist goes to the heart of the Catholic Faith. The headline-above reflects the results of a Pew Research Study a few years ago and a more recent study conducted by Public Opinion Strategies. The latter is the largest survey of Catholics conducted in the U.S. 79% of those surveyed go to the Ordinary Mass. The survey provided remedies for addressing this unbelief:

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Voting Guidelines for Catholics - Part II

10-20-2024Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

Reminder: Vote to protect parental rights. Prop 1 is a dishonest attempt to overturn parental rights in raising their children to force gender ideology on the State of New York and children regardless of parental rights not to mention allowing biological males in women’s locker rooms and bathrooms and the destruction of women’s sports. It is packaged as an anti-discrimination measure hoping that people without reading the whole text will check yes because they are against discrimination. There are already laws federal and state against racial, religious, and other forms of unjust discrimination. VOTE NO ON PROP 1 when you vote to protect parental rights, religious freedom, and human life. The Church teaches that sex is assigned at conception. Gender confusion is a psychological issue which should be treated with compassion and understanding but also with the truth.

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Voting Guidelines for Catholics

10-13-2024Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

The threat of abortion remains our pre-eminent priority because it directly attacks our most vulnerable and voiceless brothers and sisters and destroys more than a million lives per year in our country alone. Introductory Note, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, the Bishops Conference of the United States - https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship/forming-consciences-for-faithful-citizenship-title

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Catholics and Politics: Reminders THE THREE NON-NEGOTIABLES

10-06-2024Weekly ReflectionFr. Leonard F. Villa

Other matters may be relevant, but a present-day Catholic citizen should never place issues of lesser importance at the same level of "the three non-negotiables": As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable. Among these the following emerge clearly today:

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