Pray with us for Fr. Hardon’s Canonization. Click for his free prayer card
The Eucharist is the Risen Christ
Easter and the Holy Eucharist by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. We do not usually associate Easter and the Holy Eucharist. But we should. Our faith tells us that God became man in order that, by His death on the Cross, He might redeem the world. But this same faith tells us...
How to Preserve the Catholic Family
Our subject on "How to Preserve the Catholic Family" deserves more than a single conference. It deserves not only an hour's reflection but a lifetime of prayerful meditation. Nothing less than the survival of the Catholic Church in one county after another is at...
2016 Church Teaches Forum: Living in God’s Mercy: Develop a Catholic Conscience, Live Religious Liberty, Build a Catholic Culture
Dear Friends, In the midst of the Easter season, we continue to celebrate the Resurrection in a unique way! And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth." (Jn. 1:14) And...
We certainly believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead
I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. As Christians, we not only believe that the human soul is immortal, but also that the human body is to rise immortal from the grave. However, our souls are spiritual by nature and are therefore...
The Price of Eternal Life is High
Chastity and Eternal Life by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The clearest teaching of our faith on the necessity of chastity for attaining eternal life is in Christ's sermon on the mount. He is telling his followers that the Old Testament prohibition of adultery is not...
St. Joseph: Foster father of Jesus and protector of the Virgin Mary
St. Joseph - Foster Father of Jesus by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. It is remarkable, how little the Holy Spirit says about famous people in the Bible. The classic example of this is Saint Joseph. He is the most prominent saint in the Catholic liturgy after the Blessed...
Lent: Growing in our love of Jesus Christ
Brief History of Lent (Reflections on the meaning and observance of Lent in preparation for the feast of Our Lord's Resurrection.) by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Written for the Marian Catechist in 1989 It seems certain that a Lenten season preceding Easter goes back to...
How is God presently loving us in the Holy Eucharist?
The Sacred Heart Is the Holy Eucharist by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus goes back to the early Church in the time of Divine Revelation. Like all other true devotion in the Catholic Church, devotion to the Sacred Heart is based on...
Christ’s Presentation in the Temple: A Sign of the Church’s Future
Chapter XVII | PRESENTATION AND PURIFICATION by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. St. Luke is the principal evangelist of Our Lady. After narrating the birth of Christ at Bethlehem, he tells us in one sentence what happened on the eighth day after Christmas. “When eight days...
Virtue: Aquinas believed what Aristotle never dreamed
The Meaning of Virtue in St. Thomas Aquinas by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Until modern times the relationship of morals to religion was taken for granted, and writers as far different in philosophy as Plato and Avicenna, or in theology as Aquinas and Luther, never...