
Salt, Cities, and Disciples
Readings: • Is 58:7-10 • Ps 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 1 Cor 2:1-5 • Mt. 5:13-16 It is small, simple, and composed mostly of something that doesn’t sound tasty at all: sodium chloride. But the […]
Readings: • Is 58:7-10 • Ps 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 1 Cor 2:1-5 • Mt. 5:13-16 It is small, simple, and composed mostly of something that doesn’t sound tasty at all: sodium chloride. But the […]
Readings: • Isa 11:1-10 • Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 • Rom 15:4-9 • Mt 3:1-12 If you saw John the Baptist preaching on a street corner, what might you think of him? He would […]
Less than ten years after Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Pope Pius IX in 1854 issued the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, which declared, as Catholic dogma, that Mary, by God’s grace, was […]
Obedience in a Polarized Church – “Ten years have passed since I completed seminary and today’s seminarians find themselves in a very different situation as they consider a lifestyle of ecclesial obedience.” Priestly Obedience in […]
All too often, when a seminarian is confronted with bad grades, he may end his self-defense with the flourish: “Do you want a holy priest or a theologian?” A savvy formator will reply with a […]
Every loving parent wants their child to flourish. Parents want their children to be happy in this life and truly fulfilled in the life to come. Yet, the youth of the upcoming generation are not […]
The Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is one of the most beautiful and moving prayers of the Church; it is traditionally prayed on the First Fridays of the month (in keeping with the […]
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 […]
The doctrine of the Trinity is surely complex: three persons and one nature at a visceral level defies what humans think about being. How do those three relate? Are they co-equal? Are they co-eternal? What […]
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Did you know that there are several ways you can gain a plenary indulgence during Lent? It’s true! There are actually four ways you … […]
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