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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

March 28, 2026 Carl E. Olson 18

Readings:  • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic as today’s Gospel, what do you focus on? What catches […]

'The Crucifixion' by Giovanni Bellini (1501-03)
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Christ the King, exalted by the Cross

November 22, 2025 Carl E. Olson 3

Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I […]

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“They killed Him”: Deicide and Holy Saturday

April 19, 2025 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 37

The Christ is dead; the corpse of the Son of God lies on a cold slab in a suffocating, lightless tomb. Holy Saturday is a difficult day to keep holy. My parish marks it with […]

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The Paschal Mystery proclaimed in creation

January 6, 2024 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 6

My last column delved into the Church’s belief that each creature—even those we find irritating or inconsequential—mirrors the beauty of the divine Logos in our world. Yet, even as every feature of the cosmos reflects […]

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The San Damiano Crucifix: A Theological and Spiritual Interpretation

September 29, 2023 Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap. 8

This Cross painted on wood initially hung in the Church of San Damiano, situated half way between hillside town of Assisi above and the Spoletan Valley below. It came to prominence when Jesus spoke to […]

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Shroud of Turin gets ‘true crime’ treatment in science-driven documentary

July 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

Filmmaker Robert Orlando, standing before a negative image of the Shroud of Turin, says he was prompted to investigate the purported burial cloth of Jesus in part because of a search to answer "big questions" about life and faith follo… […]

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A Cross-less Christianity is a lie of the devil

February 25, 2023 Carl E. Olson 16

Readings: • Gen 2:7-9; 3:1-7 • Psa 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 • Rom 5:12-19 • Matt 4:1-11 “He that seeks not the cross of Christ,” wrote St. John of the Cross, “seeks not the glory […]

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Pope Francis: Through the paradox of the cross, Jesus ‘embraced our death’

November 20, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Cathedral of Asti, in northern Italy, for the Solemnity of Christ the King on Nov. 20, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Nov 20, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).
On the Solemnity of Christ the King, Pope… […]

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St. Anselm, Joseph Ratzinger, and the Atonement

April 15, 2022 Christopher Plance 11

In his 2013 book The Father’s Will: Christ’s Crucifixion and the Goodness of God (Oxford University Press), Fr. Nicholas E. Lombardo, O.P., launched several severe critiques against St. Anselm’s model of the atonement. “Anselm’s solution […]

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“My flesh for the life of the world”: Ronald Knox on the Mass as a Sacrifice

August 21, 2021 Fr. Charles Fox 20

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” —John 6:51 […]

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