It is a proverbial truth that if you really want to clean your house, plan a dinner party. The pressure of hosting your family or friends will force you to do what you otherwise might […]
Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document containing “responses […]
Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved […]
Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the feast of St. Lawrence, August 10, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. On December 27, 1912, my father was born in Lawrence, […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (EF), August 7, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Only twice in the entire New Testament do […]
Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide […]
The reversal of Roe has caused violence and anger to percolate on social media and has engendered a plethora of misinformation about abortion laws. Many news outlets, it seems, have become singularly focused on abortion. […]
A few months ago, I interviewed the patristics scholar, Dr. Lewis Ayres. Dr. Ayres is understandably very favorably disposed towards the school of modern theology that has come to be known as “ressourcement” theology. However, […]
Readings: • Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23 • Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17 • Col 3:1-5, 9-11 • Lk 12:13-21 I know Christians who believe that people should be able to be as wealthy as they […]
Readings: • Gn 18:20-32 • Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 • Col 2:12-14 • Lk 11:1-13 According to atheist Richard Dawkins in his best-selling book The God Delusion, the God of the Old Testament is “arguably […]
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