Father Jonathan Morris

Father Morris was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on December 24,2002 in Rome, Italy. He has served as a religious news analyst and commentator for several domestic and international channels including CNN, Sky News, and BBC. He also served as a theological advisor to Mel Gibson during the making of The Passion of the Christ. He now serves as a regular news contributor for the Fox News Channel, where he offers ethical and moral commentary to regular news items. Father Morris resides in Rome.

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Catholicism

Spirituality

The Promise

God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts

Talking Points

Father Morris is frequently featured on FOX News. The globetrotting faith and ethics correspondent and Catholic priest can speak about the central question —why does God allows us to suffer? He can offer comfort and hope for hard times.

Description

Morris peels back the layers of questions that arise when someone asks the question “why me?” Morris not only writes about how to understand and live with suffering, he also poses the toughest question to God: why do we suffer under a benevolent God? Next he delves into how to be healed from the spiritual, emotional, and even physical scars left behind by suffering. He offers six principles for living a free life, or a life free of the fear that God is not there for us. He concludes with a captivating dialogue between a priest and a parent whose daughter is abused and then murdered, making real the deep issues that we all wrestle with.

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Catholicism

Christian Living

Spirituality

God Wants You Happy

From Self-Help to God's Help

Talking Points

Father Jonathan Morris serves as a regular news contributor for the Fox News Channel, where he offers ethical and moral commentary to regular news items. He also serves as parochial vicar at the historic Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City. In 2007, Father Jonathan was appointed a professor of ethics and media at the University of Rome.

Description

Father Jonathan uses his reporting skills to reveal why people are seeking counsel in the self-help world, and with his pastoral skills he offers a compassionate and truthful bridge back home from the unsatisfying world of self-help to the simplicity and depth of Christian spirituality. He does not simply dismiss these new age guides. Instead, Morris points out the many seeds of Christian truth hidden behind self-help language. But whereas New Age spirituality fixates on our power to determine our destiny, he invites readers to become pro-active believers, trusters, and lovers of the ultimate Higher Power that will bring great healing and joy to those who follow.

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