Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts […]
The Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ […]
The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (“On Safeguarding The Human Person In The Time Of Artificial Intelligence”) should of course be of interest to everyone. But it is of special interest to […]
Initial reactions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, are necessarily brief, and most have tried to focus on one or two particular aspects of the encyclical. While it is helpful to consider a general […]
After the Spike is a frustrating book. It sounds the alarm on a real contemporary problem—the worldwide decline in birthrates that may be sending whole societies, even humanity itself, into a demographic death spiral. The […]
The pope thanked Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah for his presence at the presentation: “What a great sign of hope it is that with our differences we can listen to one another.” […]
It was the Psalms, the Hebrew prophets, and the Gospels that inspired in these men a life-sustaining hope. […]
Pentecost is affectionately referred to as the “birthday of the Church”. There is a clue in the biblical account of the gathering in the Upper Room (Acts 1:12ff) that helps us in better understanding the […]
Readings: • Acts 2:1-12 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 “Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, who are everywhere […]
As Peter preached the first sermon on Pentecost, he could hardly have imagined that he was shaping a Catholicism—a new way of life in Christ for all people—that would become Roman. There was nothing Roman […]
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