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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.
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William Byrd and the beckoning of beauty

October 19, 2016 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

Editor’s note: The following is a homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on October 17, 2016, at the Votive Mass in honor of the English Martyrs, at the Church of […]

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The wit and wisdom of a “most gloriously judgmental” man

August 11, 2016 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

In 1980, as a priest not yet thirty years of age, I found myself placed in charge of developing local chapters of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights on the entire eastern seaboard. […]

Opinion

12 thoughts on the papacy and life in the Church today

July 3, 2016 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

Editor’s note: The following homily preached earlier today by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the external Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (Extraordinary Form), at the Church of the Holy Innocents, […]

Books

Behind the Scenes at Vatican II

February 3, 2016 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 1

On January 29, 1959, Pope John XXIII shocked the Church and the world with his announcement at the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls in Rome that he was convoking the first ecumenical council […]

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The First Grace of Mercy is the Grace of Conversion

January 20, 2016 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

Just what is a jubilee year? Its roots are found in Jewish law and practice, with Leviticus 25:10 as the signal text calling for a remission of debts – spiritual and temporal – every fifty […]

General

“The Catholic Response”: In the Second Decade

September 26, 2014 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

“I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what […]

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