When my family lived in Panama, we had both garbage and recycling collection. The running joke was that the “recycling” was a charade, and that the trucks were taking everything to the same landfill—only about […]
In June, the writer, producer, and nonprofit founder Ashley L. Jackson converted to Judaism. That fact itself is somewhat unusual, as only somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 Americans convert to the Jewish faith every year. […]
From the inception of the Internet, we’ve known that there is a distance between who we are as embodied souls struggling through a fallen world and who we present to be on the Internet, even […]
My father was a physical therapist. His funeral was well attended, with several hundred people, including a significant percentage of whom I had never met, his patients over thirty-five years practicing in our native northern […]
When it comes to saints who were also soldiers, the list is relatively short. There is St. Louis IX, the medieval king of France, who fundraised and led two crusades against the Muslim kingdom in […]
In the secular recounting of the history of the West, it is commonly asserted that Christianity held a many-centuries-long dominance over the peoples of Europe, stifling (supposedly) intellectual and moral development because of its superstitious […]
What is Protestantism? It seems a straightforward thing to answer. Protestantism is the affirmation of Scripture as the ultimate, unparalleled authority of Christian faith and practice. Protestantism is the “five solae” of the sixteenth-century Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Solus […]
Five hundred years ago this year, a twenty-one-year-old Spaniard made his religious profession as a member of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans. That man, now called Venerable Louis of Granada, though little known now, […]
According to a 2016 directory published by Fr. José A. Martinez, the Dominicans can claim 83 canonized saints, 287 blessed, 25 venerable, and 119 servants of God in the liturgical calendar or in the files […]
Although Israel is not central to Principles of Catholic Theology: Book 4, On the Church, Mary, Nature and Grace, a new collection of essays by prominent theologian Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, the book offers two […]
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