Msgr. Michael Heintz is on the faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Md.
By Msgr. Michael Heintz A striking feature of the Western church’s festal calendar is the cycle of memorials and feasts, which “fill out” the Octave of Christmas. Unlike the Easter […]
By Msgr. Michael Heintz, PhD There is no such thing as “private” prayer. There is – and certainly should be – deeply personal prayer, but really no such thing as […]
The late and abiding fruits of a jubilee year By Msgr. Michael Heintz The value of our prayer is not to be determined by our experience of it, but by […]
By Msgr. Michael Heintz Intercommunion, the reception of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church by non-Catholic Christians (or reception by Catholics in other Christian churches) is a very touchy subject. […]
By Msgr. Michael Heintz Baptism involves a whole new way of looking at things, a whole new way of feeling about things, a whole new way of doing things. This […]
In the 10th chapter of St Mark’s Gospel, Jesus encounters a blind man called Bartimaeus who sat begging at the roadside. Jesus asks him “What do you want me to […]
By Msgr. Michael Heintz Most, if not all, of us make progress in the faith. We make our way toward God, not by leaps and bounds, but by stutter-steps: slowly […]
By Msgr. Michael Heintz “Hate the sin; love the sinner.” The Gospel about the wheat and weeds sown together reminds us about an inherent — and healthy — tension in […]
