July 30, 2021 by frbillnicholas WHEN PEOPLE LEAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH – The First Teaching that Drove People Away Many people, Catholic and Non-Catholic, object to certain teachings of the Catholic Church. This is nothing new. Fr. Bill talks about the up and coming readings of the Sunday Mass, what Jesus taught and how His audience responded. Fr. Bill then compares it to the objections to current teachings of the Church, the demand of some people that the Church change its teachings, and the penchant for Catholics to leave the Church over them.
July 23, 2021 by frbillnicholas POPE FRANCIS & the TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS Pope Francis has rolled back Pope Benedict XVI’s allowance for greater access to the Traditional Latin Mass. Some are saddened, some confused, some indifferent. Fr. Bill discusses the issue, and how the Traditional Latin and Novus Ordo Masses relate to the other Rites of the Catholics Church.
July 16, 2021 by frbillnicholas AS BAD AS THE CIVIL WAR!! – Inappropriate Historical Comparisons and What They Mean Enjoy this Week’s Podcast Fr. Bill addresses the habit of many public officials and media figures to compare current issues to Historical Events, Figures and Institutions, encouraging his listeners to respond, not to the extreme Rhetoric and inappropriate Hyperbole, but as a call to actually learn the history that is being invoked in the comparison.
July 11, 2021 by frbillnicholas When They Just Don’t Listen Scripture Reflection for the 15th Sunday of the Year – B “The Prophet Amos” by Gustav Dore
July 9, 2021 by frbillnicholas JUNETEENTH, SLAVERY & the 4TH OF JULY Podcast on Our Nation’s Founding and the Abolition of Slavery Without Independence Day there would be no Juneteenth to celebrate. Fr. Bill discusses the history of Independence Day and the Founding of our Nation in light of the new National Holiday of Juneteenth. He also discusses the fallacies of current accusations of our Nation’s Founding, how that Founding ensured the Abolition of Slavery, how Juneteenth at long last acknowledges that this is a Nation that Abolished Slavery, and therefore how there would be nothing to celebrate on Juneteenth without the National Founding we celebrate on July 4th.
July 4, 2021 by frbillnicholas PROPHECY IN AMERICA – God’s Voice in the American Experience Independence Day HomilyJuly 4, 2021—Ezekiel 2:2-5 God’s prophets speak to us today; especially in and through the American Experience. As the Nation Celebrates the 4th of July, in the midst of a growing internal culture of hatred for the United States, Fr. Bill preaches how God’s voice can be heard in and through our Nation’s Founding that has formed us as a people, and how the Catholic Church through its leaders continues to speak prophetically today.