Please Note:
Last week our website was hacked. For a time you were not able to reach our site but were instead diverted to some online pharmacy. We have worked through the past week with our hosting service to make significant changes and now have strong security among other things for smoother sailing.

LITURGICAL YEAR 2019

Presently weekly copies of our three Faith Supplements are available  for free download and printing per Terms of Use, below.

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C

The Catholic Navigator – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Catholic Clipper – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Catholic Schooner – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Terms of Use- (non-institutional): Because this material is copyrighted, you are permitted to freely read and/or download and print one copy weekly of each posted faith supplement for your personal use. To print multiple copies, please request permission by emailing editors@TheCatholicNavigator.org  However, the PDF file may not be duplicated or electronically transmitted, displayed on a website or sent via email. Instead, please encourage friends and family at a distance to visit this website.

Voices from Catholic Land

(See our introduction to “Catholic Land” on the Home page sidebar.)

October 20 is special – John Henry Cardinal Newman’s canonization- so we post these three articles:

Fr. Roger Landry offers ten reasons why Cardinal Newman is a saint for our time:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/fatherlandry/10-reasons-why-blessed-john-henry-newman-is-a-saint-for-our-time

K. V. Turley has prepared an annotated timeline of St. John Henry Newman’s life:
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-life-of-st.-john-henry-newman

In his own words Cardinal Newman assures us that time is short, eternity is long:
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2019/10/13/time-is-short-eternity-is-long/

Then to other topics:

Fr. Sean Connolly tells us when the Mother of God came to America:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/10/08/when-the-mother-of-god-came-to-america/

Casey Chalk assures us that Hell is real, and it isn’t empty:
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/hell-is-real

Sincha Fisher gives reasons for having a crucifix on your wall:
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/simcha-fisher-why-do-you-need-a-crucifix-on-your-wall/

Msgr. Charles Pope asserts that man is not an intruder on creation:
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/environment/man-is-not-an-intruder-in-creation.html

Catechetical Theme for Liturgical Year 2020

Parish catechists’ ministry is primarily within parish religious education programs. However, they like all baptized Catholics have a broader mission, that of witnessing the Faith wherever, whenever and to whomever the opportunity is presented. This year our Bishops have adopted a theme: STAY WITH US, a response to the numbers of youth abandoning the faith as early as age 13. Our duty to these young people is to show them the reasonableness and necessity of following Christ in His Church. And to this end this USCCB website has explanation and resources to aid in our effort: 

http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/catechesis/catechetical-sunday/index.cfm

Of course, we are not to restrict our witnessing only to these young people; our secular society is desperately in need of evangelization.