Tag: Q&A with Fr John Flader

For some time now I have had difficulty connecting with God in my prayer, as if he isn’t there for me or doesn’t care. I find him aloof. Is it possible that he can be aloof from us human beings, and what should I do in this situation?

Does the church have anything to say about whether the Temple in Jerusalem might be rebuilt one day?

Dear Fr John Flader, I sometimes attend Mass in a parish staffed by Somascan priests, who speak of their founder, St Jerome Emiliani. Who was he?

Catholic Weekly columnist Fr John Flader hits his nine hundredth question answered in his latest volume from Connor Court: Question Time 6. With a foreword from the late Cardinal George Pell, Fr Flader makes short work of complex queries, suitable for educational and evangelical purposes, writes Eamonn Keane.

I recently read an article which said that heaven, where souls go to enjoy God forever after their death and purification, will be on earth when Christ comes again to inaugurate the new heaven and new earth. I thought heaven was in heaven. What are we to believe?

I know that the church defined the infallibility of the pope in the First Vatican Council, but I would like to ask whether there is any evidence before that the church and the pope believed they were infallible.

Some Protestants believe that Christ did not found a visible, hierarchical Church, but that he only preached the Kingdom of God, and it was the early Christians in different places who gradually formed themselves into communities of believers. Is this true?