Cardinal Sarah's Warning to the West
Chase Padusniak on the overlooked elements of Robert Cardinal Sarah's thinking.
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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.
Taking the Role of All the Baptized in Church Leadership Seriously
John Cavadini invities you to consider co-responsibility for the Church.
Transubstantiation Isn't a Disconnected Doctrine
Brett Salkeld illustrates how to overcome misunderstandings about transubstantiation.
In the Storm: An Ordination Homily
Peter Leithart gives advice about walking on water.
The Difference Between Consuming Flesh in the Market and During the Liturgy
Matthew Tan on what happens when capitalism cuts the flesh off from transcendence.
How to Bless a Child
Anna Keating on how blessings realign our world with Heaven.
The Church Multiplies Tragedy
Romano Guardini, priest and theologian, on accepting the Church as she is with all her tragedies.
Jane Austen's Daily Mirrors of Marriage
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster looks into the mirror of Austen's novels for a realistic picture of Holy Matrimony.
The Empty Exalted Cross's Paradoxical Power
Andrea Peecher, ND MTS student, draws on ancient sources to explain the meaning of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
Discernment for the Postmodern Condition
William Watson, SJ, director of the Sacred Story Institute, on discernment in an age of cultural meltdown.
The Hazards of Online Faith-Writing
Amy Welborn, author of over two dozen books on Catholic spirituality, warns about the dangers of burnout in faith-writing.
An Eschatology of the Secular
Jordan Haddad, Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Notre Dame Seminary, explains the eschatological nature of the laity.