Essay
You Have the Words of Eternal Life
“I am the bread of life…For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (Jn 6:35a; […]
salvation
The Dispatch
His Body, His Choice: Abortion, politics, and our Communion crisis
Choice. It’s a word that expresses the religion of most Americans: one that centers on the self and the freedom to pursue one’s own desire. Freedom is the basis for happiness, it is true, though […]
The Dispatch
How the Mystery of the Trinity illuminates the mystery of atonement
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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Lent: A journey, an encounter, and a time of purification
Readings: • Ex 17:3-7 • Psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-2, 5-8 • Jn 4:5-42 Lent is not merely a season, but a journey, an encounter, and a time of purification. Benedict XVI, in […]
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Can faith move mountains today?
It’s one of the most curious lines that Jesus utters. In response to the disciples’ inquiry as to why they could not cast an evil spirit from a boy, Jesus responds, “For truly, I say […]
Essay
Radical Inclusion Requires Radical Love
I have written of my concerns in the past with the German Synodal Process, as well as concerns with other bishops and cardinals and their take on the process. They essentially ignore the oft repeated […]
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The Lamb of God and the Salvation of the World
Readings: • Is 49:3, 5-6 • Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 • 1 Cor 1:1-3 • Jn 1:29-34 Taken as a whole, this Sunday’s readings can, I think, be summarized in a single sentence: […]
Features
“O Holy Night!”
“Minuit, chrétiens, C’est l’heure solennelle Ou l’Homme Dieu descendit jusqu’à nous Pour effacer la tache originelle Et de Son Père arrêter le courrou.” The Christmas carol, “Cantique de Noël”, was written first as a French […]
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Vatican II and the universality of Christ’s saving mission
The distinguishing feature of the doctrine and the pastoral program of the Second Vatican Council is Trinitarian Christocentrism. The Council’s teaching on the nature of Sacred Liturgy, on the mystery of the Church, on the […]
Books
Divine freedom and heresy
I commend to you Fr. James Dominic Rooney’s excellent recent Church Life Journal article “The Incoherencies of Hard Universalism.” It is directed primarily at David Bentley Hart’s defense of universalism in his book That All Shall Be Saved, of […]