The Guardian of the Covenant
The Guardian of the Covenant By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 22, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/guardian-covenant/ In co, parties engage in trade agreements. Nations make treaty agreements. Every agreement enhances mutual understanding. Some even prevent war. Throughout Scripture, God also enters into trade agreements with man. At first glance, St. Joseph may appear to occupy a relatively obscure role as a negotiator in the Gospe
The Evidence of Affirmation
The Evidence of Affirmation By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 15, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/evidence-affirmation/ Every so often we must examine our intellectual patterns of thinking with the humility to admit that we can be wrong—and the wisdom to know where firm certainties of truth are found. Good Catholics accept Church teaching as true and reliable. We needn't be great theologians to accept the Creed and try to live by
Old Time Thomistic Metaphysics
Old Time Thomistic Metaphysics By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 09, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/old-time-thomistic-metaphysics/ From our morning coffee routine to scientific research, we are a bundle of habits. Good habits are virtues; bad habits are vices. Whether good or bad, our habits govern the faculties of our souls and shape our emotions. At times, vices intermingle with virtues like poison ivy hidden among flourishing f
We Know Not the Day nor the Hour — If You Get My Drift
We Know Not the Day nor the Hour — If You Get My Drift By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 01, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/we-know-not-day-nor-hour-if-you-get-my-drift/ Advent begins with the same warning that ended the liturgical year: Be watchful. Stay awake. You do not know the day nor the hour (cf. Mt. 24:37-44). Jesus speaks these words not to frighten us, but to shake us free from spiritual lethargy. Advent is our time to wa
True Transcendental Meditation
True Transcendental Meditation By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 24, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/true-transcendental-meditation/ “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world: to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” (Jn 18:37) Meditating on Christ’s kingship draws us into a profound paradox. He exercises no worldly dominance, yet His authority governs
What the bishops got wrong on immigration
What the bishops got wrong on immigration It’s ‘bearing false witness’ to accuse people (even if implicitly) of systematic indiscriminate behavior that violated human dignity (and is therefore immoral)—without clear evidence. November 18, 2025 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky Features , Opinion 10 Print https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/11/18/what-the-bishops-got-wrong-on-immigration/ The Apostles’ Creed teaches that the Church, as the Body of Christ, is one, holy, cath
Fear Tactics
Fear Tactics By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 17, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/fear-tactics/ In the 1970s, an old man with disheveled white hair sat in front of the White House holding a sign that read, “Repent, the end is near.” After fifty years, joking about the end of the world is less carefree, as anxiety quietly creeps in. The end is indeed near for many of us inching toward the top of the actuarial tables. Reasonable fe
Heresy Type Indicator: Manichaeism
Heresy Type Indicator: Manichaeism By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 10, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/heresy-type-indicator-manichaeism/ Various psychological tests claim to promote self-understanding. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for example, helps us identify our personality types. Years ago—perhaps less so today—the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was used to screen out potential psychopaths from sensiti
Election Day Diary
Election Day Diary https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/11/06/election-day-diary/ It is possible for two strangers to stand outside a polling place, discuss life and death, faith and truth—and end with mutual kindness. November 6, 2025 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky The Dispatch 0 Print (Image: Element5 Digital/Unsplash.com) In my usual—well, slightly unkempt—priestly black clothing and white tab collar, I arrived at the voting station this morning, ready to do my civic
May They Rest in Peace—If Applicable
May They Rest in Peace—If Applicable By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 03, 2025 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/may-they-rest-in-peace-if-applicable/ You’ve heard it said, “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.” Jesus teaches us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (cf. Mt. 5:43–44). When an enemy of mine died, I prayed for the happy repose of his soul, saying, “May he rest in peace—if applicable.” A friend was
