Are Our Children Seeing Jesus?
Brad Klingele, eighth grade teacher, writes about teaching children (and ourselves) to see Our Lord and Savior who is doubly-hidden in modern societies.
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The Strange Myths of the New Evangelization
Mark Giszczak, Augustine Institute Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture, uses hard data to unmask the myth of Catholic decline in the United States.
Death Clarifies What We Love
Gregory Floyd, who teaches in the Core Program at Seton Hall, considers a kind of theology that is not written in words, but written in lives.
Can Catholicism Still Draw from Ecumenism's Wells?
Kimberly Belcher, Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Theology, suggests how ecumenism can make Catholics both more Catholic and catholic.
Epiphany: It's Foolish to Pretend It's Easy to Remember the Poor
John Michael Hogue, ND theology major and Church Life Intern at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, on the Epiphany and the difficulty of gift-giving.
Am I the Mother of Christ?
John Cavadini tries to imagine what Isaac of Stella means by giving birth to Christ.
The Last Judgment Is the Real Reason for Advent
Fr. Peter Nguyen reminds us Christmas celebrates the First Coming of Christ and Advent the Second Coming.
The Options for Identity-Discernment in a Secular Age
Robert Aaron Wessman, Roman Catholic priest and member of the Glenmary Home Missioners, takes an honest look at how to speak to Millennials, not at them.
"You can eat with us": On Poverty and Community
Twenty years ago, I asked Paul, the tall, burly, blunt, and opinionated leader of the Catholic soup kitchen, if I could take my youth group to serve dinner. “Nope!” he barked. Startled, I squeaked out, “Um, why?” ...
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Season of Advent
For some Christian people throughout the world, especially Mexican and Mexican-American Christians, December 12, of course, is the celebration of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. The feast commemorates her December 9–12, 1531 appearan...
The Politics of the Saints
On this feast of All Saints Day, we remember that the saints present to us a politics of praise that are the ultimate vocation of the human being.
Asceticism as Healing Art
Healing takes many different forms because it is a response to many different kinds of threats. A cut and a broken leg are each healed differently because the damage is different; nevertheless, the same end is sought in both cases. The r...
