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About Peter M.J. Stravinskas
Reverend Peter M.J. Stravinskas founded The Catholic Answer in 1987 and The Catholic Response in 2004, as well as the Priestly Society of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, a clerical association of the faithful, committed to Catholic education, liturgical renewal and the new evangelization. Father Stravinskas is also the President of the Catholic Education Foundation, an organization, which serves as a resource for heightening the Catholic identity of Catholic schools.
Detail from 'Crucifixion' (c.1315) by Giotto di Bondone [WikiArt.org]
The Dispatch

Seven Last Words from the Cross: “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

March 26, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 1

Why evil? Why suffering? Why death? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does God seem so far removed from it all? […]

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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “Woman, Behold Your Son”

March 25, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 3

The Lord’s earthly ministry ended on Calvary with the Beloved Disciple and the “woman” brought into a unique relationship with each other by the dying […]

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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “This day you will be with Me in paradise”

March 24, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 10

Preachers who suggest that Dismas (as tradition speaks of him) “stole heaven” do not do justice to the gratuity of salvation. For in a sense, […]

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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “Father, forgive them…”

March 23, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 16

What does it take to forgive? A unique mental attitude is required at the natural level; only an infusion of divine grace can elevate that […]

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“All Is Grace”: Lent, sacraments, and deification

March 20, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 6

Grace seems to have fallen on hard times in our own day and age. Two extremes in its regard are in competition – and both […]

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Liturgical Vision vs. Liturgical Visions: Vatican II, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Sarah

March 15, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 39

Why I believe that the loss of the sense of the sacred is the primary reason why we have lost millions of Catholics to faithful […]

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Modernity and the monster of materialism

March 13, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

We moderns smile condescendingly on the ancients for their worship of false gods.  Yet our age has fashioned gods every bit as foolish and ineffectual […]

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Nature is God’s prose, miracles are His poetry

March 6, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 1

Belief is serious business, and God wants no one to be duped for He is, as the traditional act of faith, declares, the One Who […]

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Doubt and faith in a secular age

February 27, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

Some Lenten lessons in belief from Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, and Flannery O’Connor. […]

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Essay

Lent and the Lord’s question: “Who do you say that I am?”

February 20, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 2

We have no excuse for not knowing who Jesus is, nor of failing to understand the implications of the assertions we make about Him in […]

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