by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Jan 26, 2022 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
In this my final commentary on the brilliant paper that Father Peter Damian Fehlner delivered at Fatima on May 7, 2005,1 I hope to wrap up my analysis of this extraordinary document. I will not have exhausted it, but I hope to have rendered it more accessible to the...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Dec 15, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
In this installment of The Marian Issue in the Church Today, Msgr. Calkins continues to unpack the prophetic teachings of the late Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, this time with a focus on the subtle reasoning present in certain Church circles today purporting the...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Apr 23, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
According to the penetrating insights of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, the crisis in the Church today requires the faithful to live with a faith matching the Fiat of the Virgin, in the spirit of prayer and penance-reparation, that is, in a coredemptive spirit, and in...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Sep 8, 2020 | 2020, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
By God’s design, Mary is united with her Son Jesus in the work of our salvation, not in a passive way, but by her active cooperation. This is why Mary is said to “occupy center stage” in our redemption—not substituting for or replacing Jesus, but never separated from...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Mar 9, 2020 | 2020, Mary and the Saints
“Piously meditating on [Mary] and contemplating her in the light of the Word made man,” the Second Vatican Council states, “the Church with reverence enters more intimately into the great mystery of the Incarnation.” The recently canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman,...
