Readings: • 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a • Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 • Rom. 9:1-5 • Mt 14:22-23 Recently, I led a Bible study through the Book of Proverbs. It is, of course, filled with […]
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Readings: • Isa 55:1-3 • Psa 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 • Rom 8:35, 37-39 • Matt 14:13-21 The story of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand is well known. It appears in all […]
Editor’s note: The following interview, originally posted at CWR on November 11, 2015, is reposted in light of the recent discussions about the Second Vatican Council. One of the most contentious and heavily debated topics […]
Readings: • 1 Kngs 3:5, 7-12 • Psa 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 • Rom 8:28-30 • Mt 13:44-52 How good are you and I at recognizing something that is valuable, even priceless? That question […]
The latest book from George Weigel—biographer of Pope John Paul II and author of over twenty books—has caused a bit of stir, in part because of the book’s title. Is The Next Pope, published by […]
Readings: • Isa 55:10-11 • Psa 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 • Rom 8:18-23 • Matt 13:1-23 The well-known parable of the seed and the sower is the first of seven parables in Matthew 13. These […]
First Things has posted an essay, simply titled “My Time in Prison”, by Cardinal George Pell. It contains a number of interesting reflections on both life in prison and Cardinal Pell’s spiritual life, beginning with […]
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, 1947), distinguished between different types of paradox. One […]
Ignatius Press recently published Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. It is, as the subtitle indicates, a response to recent books and essays arguing that the moral, social, and political […]
Peter’s profession of Christ, whom he declares to be the Holy One of God, fits into the context of the Eucharistic Discourse in which Jesus announces the Day of Reconciliation through the sacrificial offering of […]
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