When I was a Protestant seminary student, I worked night shifts with a Mormon, who became a very close friend of mine. Somewhat amazingly (some might say providentially), he had an uncle who was a […]
Readings: • Acts 6:1-7 • Psa 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 • 1 Pet 2:4-9 • Jn 14:1-12 Perhaps you, like me, know people who express belief in Jesus, but have no interest in the Church. I […]
Cambridge historian Richard Rex has provocatively proposed that Catholicism today is embroiled in the third great crisis of its bimillennial history. The first crisis was the fierce, Church-dividing debate over “What is God?” That question […]
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 […]
Readings: • Prov 8:22-31 • Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-5 • Jn 16:12-15 The apologist and novelist Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) dryly noted, in an essay titled “The Dogma is the Drama,” that for […]
Readings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Psa 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 • Jn 20:19-23 “Spirit and fire are united—a true miracle, air and fire are joined together—awesome sight!” So wrote […]
It may surprise many Catholic readers to know that Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM, Cap. has in recent years been one of the most significant living theologians for conservative Protestants. The reason for this odd celebrity […]
Pope Francis speaks at the Sunday Angelus on May 30, 2021. / Vatican Media/CNA.
Vatican City, May 30, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).
On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Pope Francis said unity is essential to Christian life because God is a commu… […]
Love is a free gift; it cannot be coerced, manipulated, or commodified. The greatest example of this is found in the Incarnation. […]
Readings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 He is silent, yet sounds like rushing wind; he […]
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