Readings: • Ex 34:4B-6, 8-9 • Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 • 2 Cor 13:11-13 • Jn 3:16-18 “The divine nature,” wrote St. Thomas Aquinas, “is really and entirely identical with each of the […]
Pentecost Sunday is one of the feasts of the liturgical year that surprises us with an extra song before the Gospel at Holy Mass. Just when we are ready to launch (or heave, or slowly […]
As Catholics, we know that death is not something to be feared. “Death is swallowed up in victory,” wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians, “O death, where is thy victory?” (1 Cor 15). We have […]
Archbishop Karol Wojtyla’s newly discovered 1965 reflections on St. Paul’s discourse at the Areopagus (Acts 17: 16-32), Mars Hill, is the starting point for Wojtyla’s cycle of catecheses in this book, Teachings for an Unbelieving […]
God’s unity and simplicity mean that for Him truth, justice, and power are all the same. He isn’t conflicted, doesn’t do half-measures, and never loses. The evident reality of falsehood and injustice makes that hard […]
Dear Fathers, my brothers in Christ: On Easter Sunday evening, I received a text message from one of your number, a close friend whose message was short and to the point: “The strangest day of […]
Readings: • Acts 10:34A, 37-43 • Psa 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 • Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8 • Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10 or Lk 24:13-35 “How can I lay open before you the mystery […]
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published by CWR on April 19, 2019. The problem of suffering is one that has plagued and haunted humanity since the Fall of our first parents. Suffering prompts in […]
Whatever Balthasar’s position is, and whether or not it is correct, it isn’t universalism. […]
“God spoke further to Moses: ‘Go and gather the elders of the Israelites, and tell them, The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and […]
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