Tag: Fr John Flader
Q&A with Fr Flader: Can Catholics take a COVID vaccine linked...
I am in my 70s and have some questions about Covid-19 vaccinations that perhaps you could answer for me. Can I take a vaccine...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: The courage to be faithful
“Dear Father, I recently read that a Catholic organisation that operates several hospitals has declared that it will close its hospitals if they are...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: The campaign for death
I come from Africa, where the health system is nowhere near as good as it is here, so that consequently more people die in...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Defending the right to live
I work as a nurse in a palliative care ward and sometimes have to defend the Church’s teaching on euthanasia before other nurses, who...
Fr John Flader: Palliative Care Advice
Time spent with the sick and dying is invaluable. You are truly “remaining” with them, comforting them, showing them the love of Christ, giving them hope.
Q&A with Fr John Flader: St Peter Claver, a saint against...
I am interested in current efforts to abolish slavery in its various forms and heard that St Peter Claver might be someone to whom...
Q&A with Fr Flader: A great airborne saint
A friend said St Joseph Cupertino was famous for flying, without an airplane of course. I found that hard to believe. Is this true...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: St Joseph Calasanz
I recently attended a weekday Mass in honour of St Joseph Calasanz. I know nothing of him. Who was he?
St Joseph Calasanz is certainly...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Our Lady of the Snows
I attended Mass in my parish on August 5 and the priest said something about this feast having been called Our Lady of the...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: A God of peace and division
In the Gospel of a recent weekday Mass Jesus said he had come not to bring peace but a sword, and to set parents...
Fr Flader: Cutting off our hand?
Q: In the Gospel in a recent Mass Our Lord says we must be prepared to cut out our eye or cut off our...
Fr Flader: The life of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter was born on 20 May 1907 in St Radegund in Upper Austria.