Resolving Faith Difficulties: A Pastor’s Spiritual Journal
BOOK 1: Faith First and Always
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 first volume of a series created from columns written in recent years for CatholicCulture.org.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Dialogue with an Atheist
- Practical Atheism
- Authority and Jesus
- The Scandal of Church Abuse
- Is Catholicism an ideology?
- Faith is Personal, not Ideological
- Spiritual Strategic Planning
- The promise of the Catholic vision
- Heretics
- Catholic nudism, the USCCB, and bid to ‘eradicate’ evil
- How Mary crushes the head of Satan
- Mary, not Misogyny
- Mary: Terrible as an Army, Arrayed for Battle
- A Little Catechism to Fortify Our Faith in Troubled Times
- Inauguration Day thoughts: Shining City on a Hill
- The Mystery of Punishment and Suffering
- No Exit
- The End is Near—Maybe
- The Magisterium of the Martyrs
- The Magisterium of the Sacred Liturgy
- The Liturgical Year
- Advent: An Advent Meditation
- Advent: Anticipation
- Advent: It could have been a wonderful life
- Christmas: Life Stinks. Merry Christmas!
- Christmas: An Undelivered Christmas Homily
- Mary, the Mother of God: Are Marian devotions excessive?
- Feast of the Holy Family: The Church’s Policies on Families
- Feast of the Holy Family: Adjectives
- Holy Week: The problem of sin, suffering, and death
- Holy Thursday: Jesus is Not a Dictator
- Good Friday: The Age of Cynicism
- Good Friday: The Joy of Dread
- Easter: The Cure for Our Fears, Real and Imagined
- Easter: Hollywood Extras
- The Ascension: Tossing us the keys to His Kingdom
- Feast of the Most Holy Trinity: Faith seeking understanding
- Feast of the Most Holy Trinity: The Divine Symphony
- Corpus Christi: A ‘personal relationship with Jesus Christ’
- The Transfiguration: Transfiguration and confidence
- The Assumption: “You’re Only Human”
- All Souls: Funerals and divine worship
- All Souls: Death, where is thy sting?
- Christ the King: Christ, the Great King
