What Angels Can Teach Us About Being Human
David Albert Jones on how studying angels can combat anthropocentrism.
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Holding Your Nose: How to Vote Like a Catholic
Brett Salkeld on prudential judgments and intrinsic evils.
Identity Dysphoria and the Sacraments of Initiation
Francesca Murphy on what's in a name.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Quarantined
John Cavadini on the need for a renewed, refreshed, and rearticulated dogmatic.
What Are Kingdoms but Great Bands of Robbers?
Terence Sweeney on empires and theft in Augustine and Bartolomé de Las Casas.
The Christian's Mission to Birth Christ
Jean-Paul Juge on the theological implications of the Book of Revelation.
Gregory the Great's Transvaluation of Life and Death
Carole Straw on Gregory the Great pondering the importance of the Second Death.
Is the Bible Racist?
Yves Congar, OP on the lack of any arguments for racism in the Bible.
Only Reconciliation Can Cancel Transgressions
Leonard DeLorenzo on forgiving the unimaginable and unimaginable forgiveness.
Don’t Panic If You Feel Fear
Sr. Mary David OSB on the spirituality of endurance.
When Nothing Helps
Jonathan Heaps on Mr. Rogers and why there will always be helpers.
Cardinal Sarah's Warning to the West
Chase Padusniak on the overlooked elements of Robert Cardinal Sarah's thinking.
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
Taylor Ross on the biblical question of money and its distribution.
Easter: He Walked Where There Was No Path
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Resurrection and the tragedies of life.
Co-Responsibility: An Antidote to Clericalizing the Laity?
John Cavadini on how to avoid the development of a lay clericalism.
The Mass Is Still With Us Even Under Quarantine
Timothy O'Malley argues that Catholics can no more escape participation in the Eucharist than they can escape their human bodies.
Love Provides a Last Chance
Hans Urs von Balthasar comments on the call to repentance in the Parable of the Fig Tree.
The Bible as a Quest Into God
Carolyn Pirtle invites you to see with the new eyes of the St. John's Bible.
Prayer and the Shame From Racism
Sheila Wise Rowe gives an example of the emotional and spiritual toll of racism.
The Need for Deprofessionalizing Evangelization
Peter Andrastek demonstrates why informal evangelization is effective.
Saint Bernard: Unlikely Patron of Christian Unity
Charles Ridley draws on Saint Bernard as an unlikely resource for ecumenism.
How to Read Mark's Gospel
Ron Hansen takes you on a tour of how to read Mark's Gospel.
Rehabilitating Saint Simeon the Stylite
Elizabeth Klein debunks characterizations of Simeon Stylites as a fanatic.
The Convergence of Jews and Gentiles
Augustine of Hippo expounds the significance of the Feast of the Epiphany.
Setting out Into the Dark with God
Hans Urs von Balthasar on Christmas.
Santa Is Real, But He's Dead (to the World)
Jessica Hooten Wilson reminds us of the otherworldly life of the real St. Nicholas.
The Advent Logic of Class Treason
Travis Lacy celebrates the theological legacy of Johann Baptist Metz.
Memento Mori: Facing Death as a Fount of Life
Haley Stewart explores the strange logic of memento mori
Advent: A Time of Asceticism
Ulrich Lehner turns our attention to the ascetic dimension of Advent.
The November Night Before Advent
Leonard DeLorenzo contemplates this year's uninterrupted transition from November into Advent.