Grab Your Catechism

A look at the moral obligations the Ten Commandments place on our relationship with God and our fellow men.

Fr. Charles Connor explains how the first three commandments instruct us on how to love God and one another.

Fr. Charles Connor shows how the second and third commandments instruct us to revere the mystery of God's presence.

Fr. Charles Connor introduces the second tablet of the Decalogue with insights on the fourth commandment: love your mother and father.

Fr. Connor expands upon the fifth commandment, and how it teaches that every human life is sacred from conception to natural death.

Fr. Connor discusses The Fifth Commandment: Thou Shall Not Kill, by explaining how the Church's teachings against abortion, euthanasia, and suicide emphasize the true definition of peace.

Fr. Charles Connor explains how the sixth commandment reveals that married couples are meant to mirror God's fidelity to humanity by remaining faithful to one another.

Fr. Charles Connor discusses the seventh commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, and how the unjust taking of material goods diminishes the respect of the labor of the person who earned it.

Fr. Charles Connor stresses the importance of the Eighth Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.

Fr. Charles Connor combines the last two commandments: thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, and thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods to teach us about purity and how to resist physical and material temptations.

Fr. Charles Connor delves into the history and purpose of prayer, ranging from personal offertories to some of the more traditional and formal forms.

Fr. Charles Connor goes over the common objections people often have to prayer, and the means to overcome the struggles of our human nature and our reservations.

Fr. Charles Connor reveals how The Lord's Prayer summarizes the entirety of the Gospel and why it is the fundamental Christian prayer.