Fr. Bill Peckman is a priest in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri. He is the pastor Immaculate Conception Parish, St. Mary Parish, St. Patrick Parish, and Sacred Heart Parish.
It is said that for the Catholic Church to be renewed it will take the laity. This is absolutely true for 3 reasons. 1) The laity make up the overwhelming amount of the Church. They have strength in numbers. This doesn’t mean that the Church is a democracy. No,...
Take up your cross and follow me. Perhaps those words have been greatly tamed over the years. Perhaps we see them as taking up our burdens and following Christ. But the Cross wasn’t a mere burden. The cross was means of execution. Painful execution. It would be like Jesus...
I am going to step into this whole toxic male thing just to say this: If you are Catholic and want to raise a young man, teach him virtue. Teach him prudence so he knows how to be wise and forthright in his decision making. Teach him temperance so he...
People who willfully exempt oneself from Mass on a Holy Day carry the consequence of being in mortal sin. It is the same exact consequence for those who willfully exempt themselves from going to any Sunday Mass. That’s right: to willfully exempt yourself from Sunday Mass is mortally sinful....
For many years, I have been saying that if a man wouldn’t make a good husband and dad, he won’t be a good priest either. I think the current scandals in the Church scream that loud and clear. A good husband is totally faithful to his wife. A...
There are times when I think about Jesus looking down on us clerics and saying: “You know, I told you to go baptize the nations. I told you to teach all I taught. I told you ‘to do this memory of me.’ I told you to love one another as...
