Two millennia of Christianity have yielded a tremendous number of brilliant, holy, and insightful men and women. Many of these men and women penned works of staggering beauty and spiritual insight, which have become widely […]
Some of the most profound observations and depictions in recent decades about the challenges of modernity, technology, and current affairs have been made through science fiction and dystopian novels, movies, and television shows. Star Trek, […]
Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock
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A brilliant thinker and prolific writer, Pope Benedict XVI wrote 66 books in his lifetime. His final work, “Wha… […]
One of the more egregious errors of the Protestant revolt in the sixteenth century was displacing the Eucharist as the source and summit of the liturgy and replacing it with the proclamation of the Word […]
The world is not a perfect place, by any stretch of the imagination. Rampant secularism, endless noise, social unrest, political upheaval, and cultural strife mark our times, perhaps more than ever before. It is apparent […]
Blessed Carlo Acutis has in recent times become quite popular within the Catholic Church. Indeed, he is the first Millennial to be Beatified, demonstrating, that holiness is not something of the past and can be […]
Theology is, as the name suggests, the study of God. St. Anselm of Canterbury described the theological pursuits as Fides quaerens intellectum, or “faith seeking understanding”. We are called not just to love God, but […]
“Can’t you see, this is me, I’m a woman,” sang musical superstar Tina Turner. None of the obituaries or commemorations of Ms. Turner, who died recently at age 83, seem to have any doubt that […]
When I was a Protestant seminary student, I worked night shifts with a Mormon, who became a very close friend of mine. Somewhat amazingly (some might say providentially), he had an uncle who was a […]
Margaret M. Turek, S.T.D., is Professor of Theology and Chair of Dogmatic Theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University. After studying and earning degrees at the University of San Francisco (where she studied in the […]
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