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The Transfiguration: Gospel to the Dead
An excerpt from Frank Sheed’s To Know Christ Jesus. […]
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The New Manna is a Man!
On the Readings for Sunday, August 5, 2018 […]
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The theology of Vatican II, renewal, and the universal call to holiness
Douglas G. Bushman is well-known as past director of the Institute for Pastoral Theology at Ave Maria University and the University of Dallas, and for his courses on Ecclesiology, Catholic Spirituality, John Paul II, Vatican […]
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“Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock …”
On the Readings for Sunday, July 22, 2018. […]
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“The Lord took me…”: A deep and abiding Biblical theme
Readings: • Am 7:12-15 • Psa 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 • Eph 1:3-14 • Mk 6:7-13 “The shepherd’s career is one of solitude,” stated Monsignor Ronald Knox in one of his homilies, further noting that such […]
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The scandalizing, thankless job of the Prophets
On the Readings for Sunday, July 8, 2018 […]
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Death is an uncomfortable fact—and a conquered foe
On the Readings for Sunday, July 1, 2018 […]
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Providence, Prosperity, and Purpose
On the Readings for Sunday, June 17, 2018 […]
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St. Thomas and the Sacrament of Charity
Before establishing the feast of Corpus Christi in 1264, Pope Urban IV called upon the services of St. Thomas Aquinas for the composition of prayers and hymns for the liturgical celebration of the feast. These […]
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Benedict XVI’s covenantal theology and what it means for ecology
“Those who can recognize in the cosmos the reflections of the Creator’s invisible face tend to have a greater love for creatures and greater sensitivity to their symbolic value.” This was central lessons imparted by […]