An Essay in Aid of a Neo-Orthodox Solipsistic Fideist on a Slippery Slope
Here are five leading indicators about the assessment that I make about “how my mind changed,” i.e., about my mind’s development over the sixty-three years since I reached the age of reason. These...
View ArticleBreaking News: Pope Francis Values the Sacrament of Matrimony
Worth Revisiting Wednesday – This post originally appeared on September 21, 2014. (With the Post-Synodal Exhortation on its way this Friday, we thought it was appropriate.) On Sunday September 14, 2014...
View ArticleAuthentic Love and the Discovery of Fire
The gospel for the 5th Sunday of Easter Cycle C contains one of most powerful admonitions that Jesus offered his disciples: “I give you a new commandment: Love one another as I have loved you (John...
View ArticleThe Joy of Love: A Joy to Read?
“I do not recommend a rushed reading of the text” (Amoris Laetitia 7). Pope Francis gives this great advice in his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, The Joy of Love, which is certainly the most...
View ArticleToday I Met Someone
As a college theology instructor (mostly online) I don’t have an office. The local coffee shop is my desk, with the music coming from the sound system and hum of conversation around me the ambient...
View ArticleA Saint for My Times
Having never met Dorothy Day in person (I only learned of her almost a decade after her death), I may have no business offering an opinion about whether or not she should be canonized a saint in the...
View ArticleBook Review: Remembering God’s Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from...
As a cradle Byzantine Catholic I am well acquainted with the word “mercy.” I once counted the number of times priest and people intoned the words mercy, merciful or mercies in the Divine Liturgy. It’s...
View ArticleTechnocratic Model vs. An Integral and Integrated Vision
Chapter Three of Laudato Sí is entitled “The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis;” it could well be called “Original Sin, Reprise.” Once again, humans have participated with God in creating things...
View ArticleProper Alignment in a Crazy World
In case you missed it, there was a presidential election earlier this month. The outcome surprised almost everybody—certainly the “experts,” including theologians—and the aftermath has been decidedly...
View ArticleOn the Catholic Wisdom of “Both/ And…”
Sometimes it is not one or the other but rather both/ and. I have been thinking and praying about this a lot over the last two weeks. I live on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. and have witnessed some...
View ArticleHow to Study Theology (and not quit your day job)
When considering the possibility of taking some theology classes, or even pursuing a degree, it’s often the objections that hold sway rather than the movement of the Spirit. What can you do with that?...
View ArticleWhy Attending Mass is the Most Important Thing You Can Ever Do
Dr. Scott Hahn is a well-known Catholic speaker and author, and he’s a professor of Biblical Theology at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. But Scott Hahn was very anti-Catholic in school...
View ArticleSuperstitions
Every once in a while, I worry that I might be wearing out my Al Martino records, and so I temporarily switch to a different singer. Recently I listened to the great Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” a...
View ArticleCalled to Community: Beckoned by the Trinity
Before the beginning is the Trinitarian life of community of the eternal Persons of God. The life of the Trinity is an infinite explosion of giving and receiving love. The spiration of the Spirit is...
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Today I Met Someone
As a college theology instructor (mostly online) I don’t have an office. The local coffee shop is my desk, with the music coming from the sound system and hum of conversation around me the ambient...
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A Saint for My Times
Having never met Dorothy Day in person (I only learned of her almost a decade after her death), I may have no business offering an opinion about whether or not she should be canonized a saint in the...
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Book Review: Remembering God’s Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from...
As a cradle Byzantine Catholic I am well acquainted with the word “mercy.” I once counted the number of times priest and people intoned the words mercy, merciful or mercies in the Divine Liturgy. It’s...
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Technocratic Model vs. An Integral and Integrated Vision
Chapter Three of Laudato Sí is entitled “The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis;” it could well be called “Original Sin, Reprise.” Once again, humans have participated with God in creating things...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Proper Alignment in a Crazy World
In case you missed it, there was a presidential election earlier this month. The outcome surprised almost everybody—certainly the “experts,” including theologians—and the aftermath has been decidedly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Catholic Wisdom of “Both/ And…”
photo from Archdiocese of Washington Collection Sometimes it is not one or the other but rather both/ and. I have been thinking and praying about this a lot over the last two weeks. I live on Capitol...
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