Resolving Faith Difficulties 2: A Pastor’s Spiritual Journal

BOOK 2: Faith with Reason

by Father Jerry Pokorsky

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Book Description

In this very helpful collection of essays, Fr. Jerry Pokorsky addresses a great many of the problems and confusions in faith which have concerned Catholics over the centuries, and which seem especially widespread in the twenty-first century. This is the second volume of a series created from columns written in recent years for CatholicCulture.org. Its theme is Faith with Reason.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Book of Normal
• Natural Law to the Rescue
• Subjective Conscience and Moral Certainty
• Conscience counterfeits
• Politics from the Pulpit
• The Ten Commandments and Systemic Clericalism
• Unwritten rules and the Great Compromise
• The Opium of the People
• Editing the Declaration of Independence
• Immigration and the Family
• The Artificial Santa
• Defining Racism
• Jesus is Not an Alien
• A Tribute to Pro-life Determination
• Agent Provocateurs for the Unborn
• Abortion and preaching to the choir
• Avoiding political labels
• A Little Catechism on Politics and So-Called Catholic Pro-Abortion Politicians
• Follow the Science
• Agonizing Moral Restraint
• Who Lost the Culture?
• Obama and the Bomb: Hiroshima Revisited
• The Hubris of a Tax-Code System of Morality
• Ministers, not masters, of life
• Sodom Sunday
• Déjà vu All Over Again
• The Widow’s Almsgiving Budget
• Appealing to the better angels of pastors
• The Power and Poverty of Words
• Opposition Research
• Skeletons in Our Closets
• Reckless transparency