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The gnostic Christ fails, the true Christ heals
On the Readings for Sunday, September 9, 2018 […]
Articles by Carl E. Olson
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The cart of human tradition and the horse of divine Law
On the Readings for Sunday, September 1, 2018 […]
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Doctrine, Dissent, and the Eucharist
On the Readings for Sunday, August 26, 2018 […]
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You are Who you eat: “Let Christ be eaten…”
Readings: • Prv 9:1-6 • Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 • Eph 5:15-20 • Jn 6:51-58 “You are,” my mother—like so many other mothers—used to tell me, “what you eat,” “You are Who you eat,” says […]
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The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by grace, saved by grace, assumed by grace
On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 […]
Analysis
Synodality: The Old, the New, and the A-Polling
Polls, as a rule of thumb, should be taken with a grain of salt. Or even, at times, with a salt shaker. That said, the recent online poll by @Synod.va—the official X (formerly Twitter) account […]
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Spiritual hunger and the Bread of Life
On the Readings for Sunday, August 11, 2018 […]
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The New Manna is a Man!
On the Readings for Sunday, August 5, 2018 […]
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The “sheer contradiction” of the miracle of the loaves and fishes
On the Readings for Sunday, July 29, 2018 […]
Books
The theology of Vatican II, renewal, and the universal call to holiness
Douglas G. Bushman is well-known as past director of the Institute for Pastoral Theology at Ave Maria University and the University of Dallas, and for his courses on Ecclesiology, Catholic Spirituality, John Paul II, Vatican […]