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Answering the divine call to participate in the mercy of God
On the Readings for Sunday, June 15, 2018 […]
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Pascal’s Wager, certitude and doubt, and the human condition
“The wager,” says Thomas S. Hibbs, author of a new book on Pascal’s philosophy and faith, “demands a kind of self-transformation of one’s passions, a […]
Essay
Saints Peter and Paul: “One wins by cross, and one by sword”
A consideration of the two Apostles we honor today, a reflection on the Petrine office in the Church, and a challenge to live the implications […]
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How Jesus became Jesus: A conversation with Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy
“When he was conceived and born these saving acts were still in the future,” says the noted theologian and author of a new study of […]
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Gravity, Gravitas, and Grave Matters
As the Japanese novelist Shusako Endo noted, people often ponder where they were born, a circumstance over which they had no control, while giving little […]
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The Mystery and Drama of the Trinity
On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity […]
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Christ, the Eternal High Priest, and the meaning of priestly celibacy
It is the Church’s hope and desire that her celibate clergy (and her consecrated religious, too) would show forth to the world, in a unique […]
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Can Catholics be Buddhist? New book compares Jesus and Buddha
Saying that Buddhism and Christianity lead to the same place,” ways Dr. Anthony E. Clark, author of Catholicism and Buddhism: The Contrasting Lives and Teachings of […]
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How the Christian life is enlivened by the Holy Spirit, “the Lord and Giver of life”
In the coming of the Spirit and in His on-going advents in the Church’s life, most especially through the Sacred Liturgy, the Kingdom becomes a […]
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Suffering, supplication, and the necessity of “praying always”
St. Monica prayed for the conversion of her son Augustine for thirty years. How many of us would expend that kind of energy for a […]