The new HPR site is up, running, and accessible to all

As of January 1st, the website for Homiletic & Pastoral Review site, HPRweb.com, is completely new. Although the print edition of the venerable journal is no longer being produced, new articles, editorials, reviews, and other features have been and will continue to be posted on the site.

HPR's editor, Fr. David Meconi, S.J., welcomes readers to the new HPRweb.com:

Welcome to the first-ever electronic issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review!

After 111 years, the "what" we publish – to provide essays and homilies on the truths and the beauty of Jesus Christ and his one, true Church; and the "why" we publish—to help save souls; both remain the same. But the "how" we publish has changed. We are in no way ceasing publication, but the world of publishing is changing drastically before our very eyes.

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Here are the new pieces that have been posted in the past week:

• The Catholic Faith Is Not a Noble Lie, by Thomas Storck. What is needed is a real debate on religious questions providing a rational public apologetic for the faith.

• Scripture Is a Unique Word, by Francis Etheredge. This Word of God continues the creativity of our Creator.

• John J. O'Rourke: Priest, Churchman, and Scholar (1926-1995), by Fr. Robert Nugent. "…scire etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi"

• Cross, Altar and the Right Way of Praying, by Fr. Stefan Heid. Recalling the rituals and rubrics of the past which retain their meaning today.

• Education As Transformation, by Mo Fung Woltering. The natural inclination to know rightly, and live nobly, is concept that was articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas, called connaturality.

• The Ignorance of Christ?, by Fr. Dylan Schrader. "When did Jesus know that he was God?"

• What is Moral Conscience?, by Rev. Thomas V. Berg. Refuting four mistaken ideas about conscience in light of the natural law tradition.

• Does Morality Inhibit Freedom?, by Kathleen Curran Sweeney. St. Thomas Aquinas gave primacy to the natural reason as formative in our free choices—the use of reason ordered to truth, and the will ordered to the good, uniting to make a choice.

• Confronting the Claim of Eastern Orthodoxy to be the True Church, by James Likoudis. Understanding the conflicting claims of Catholicism versus Eastern Orthodoxy.

• Scripture's Seamless Garment and the Foundational Life Issue, by Dr. Pat Guinan. The "seamless garment argument" versus the Biblical seamless garment, and how this ties into the primacy of a defense for the unborn

• On the Promises of God to Mankind, by Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. A review essay on David Goldman's book, It's Not the End of the World; It's Just the End of You.

• Seeing man from the eyes of Christ, by Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J. Editorial.

• Chosen from Among Men, by Msgr. Michael A. Osborn. The same human qualities and skills that distinguish a fine candidate for marriage are necessary, as well, for fine candidates for the priesthood.

• Moral Theology after Humanae Vitae, by Msgr. Daniel B. Gallagher. A book review of Moral Theology After Humanae Vitae: Fundamental Issues in Moral Theology and Sexual Ethics, by D. Vincent Twomey, SVD.

• A Review of Women, Sex, and the Church (edited by Erika Bachiochi), by Kerri Lenartowick, M.A.

• A Review of The Martyred Inquisitor (by Donald Prudlo), by Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P.

• Letters from our readers. Responding to articles on issue of salvation for unbaptized infants by Pugh and Hildebrand

A number of articles and reviews from older issues of HPR are on the website; more will continue to be added. In addition, the site has a "Search" function (see the bottom left-hand portion of the site), and readers can sign up for the HPR Newsletter (see the top left-hand portion of the site). Readers can contact Fr. Meconi by e-mail or snail mail.