Tag: Fr John Flader

My husband died this year, and I’m having a hard time adjusting to life without him. A friend said that I can expect to be reunited with him in heaven. Is this true?

The Catholic Weekly proudly publishes Fr Flader’s 1000th Question Time column and asks one of our own: will he ever run out of questions?

Supreme happiness is incompatible with any sadness whatsoever, including the knowledge that a loved one is suffering in hell.

I have heard that in the Synod on Synodality there is a study group on sexual morality which has proposed changes to the church’s teaching in this area. I thought this was an area where the teaching cannot change. Can you please clarify what is going on?

Opus Dei priest Fr John Flader launched his third book on life after death "From Time to Eternity" alongside his sixth instalment of "Question Time 6” at the Mustard Seed bookshop on 13 September.

Fr John Flader’s third instalment in his series on life after death, From Time to Eternity, is both easy to read and deeply thought-provoking. It will assist many to keep their ultimate destination in view, in the midst of daily life, writes Max Bosotti.

In my parish there are no early morning weekday Masses, which I need in order to get to work. Nor are there evening Masses. What is more, there are often no Masses on Mondays or Saturday mornings. Is there anything that can be done about this?

I was in Rome in Holy Week and visited three major basilicas there, including St Peter’s. Can you please tell me exactly what a basilica is, and how it differs, for example, from a cathedral?

I will draw principally on Mario Righetti’s four-volume Storia Liturgica, volume 1, which offers a comprehensive treatment of the question.

In 2019 Tammy, who had been baptised a Protestant, was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of kidney cancer which is 100 per cent fatal.

Where is heaven? If there are bodies in heaven, then surely they must be somewhere in space? Is that the case?

What is synodality? The word “synod”, or synodos in Greek, is an ancient word in the tradition of the church.