• Understanding Sacramental Healing (Anointing and Viaticum)
    Understanding Sacramental Healing (Anointing and Viaticum)
    by John C. Kasza


MONSIGNOR JOHN KASZA was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1993. He holds a B.A. in History from Wayne State University, Detroit and an Master of Divinity from Sacred Heart Major Seminary. He earned his doctorate in Sacramental Theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo in Rome in 1999.

Msgr. Kasza has served as an assistant professor of sacramental theology, liturgy and homiletics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary as well as a variety of parochial assignments. He has also taught at the Liturgical Institute at St. Mary of the Lake University in Mundelein, Illinois. He most recently served as Secretary to both Adam Cardinal Maida and Archbishop Allen Vigneron and was Vice Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Detroit as well as an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart Seminary and consultant to the Office of Worship. In July of 2009, Msgr. Kasza became the Academic Dean at SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan.

Msgr. Kasza is the author of several articles and recently published his first book entitled: Understanding Sacramental Healing: Anointing and Viaticum, which is available through Amazon.

He blogs at Monsignorial Musings