St. Alberto strove to see Christ in people he saw daily ... He sought to balance the spiritual life with the apostolate, realizing that action could be harmful if not united with God. The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes by Harold … [Read more...]
Articles
What Should the October Synod Discuss?
August 25, 2014 by Msgr. Cormac Burke
...I must say that we are blinking at reality if we do not face up to the fact that since the 1950s, marriage and the family, outside and inside the Church, have been plunged into an ever-growing crisis—to the extent that their nature, and v … [Read more...]
The Beauty of Chastity Today
August 25, 2014 by Carolyn Humphreys, OCDS
Chastity is a costly pearl that must be guarded well. Well-lived chastity is a habitual disposition of the heart and mind that makes a person gracious and approachable. The transparent beauty of chastity sees life through a lens of … [Read more...]
The Role of the Church in the Journey of Salvation
August 25, 2014 by Br. Thomas More Garrett, OP
The Church, the living Body of Christ and sacrament of salvation, continues its pilgrimage to heaven by exercising Christ’s ministry in the world so as to bring humanity into greater conformity with Christ. The Vision of the Lord D … [Read more...]
“Go and Call Your Husband”: What Enables a Marriage to Endure?
August 25, 2014 by Dr. Peter Kahn
The unity of will between a husband and wife that God establishes is realized also through a life that is fully shared. A marriage is contracted as a result of the consent of the spouses, and this consent needs to be renewed each … [Read more...]
Sacred Tradition: The Forgotten Doctrine?
August 25, 2014 by Stephen J. Morrissey
The miracle and mystery of divine guidance has been the primary constituent element of Church teaching over the centuries, and this guidance is what makes Tradition “sacred,” but rarely is it linked with the teaching of any other doc … [Read more...]
God’s Love for Us
August 11, 2014 by David Vincent Meconi
...the Son Jesus Christ has revealed the true nature of God the Father’s love for us: a love who becomes incarnate, not despite our sinfulness, but precisely because of it—a love that longs to suffer on behalf of the beloved, a love that say … [Read more...]
Homosexuality and Vocational Discernment and Choice
A Call for Evidence-Based, Astute Priestly Discernment in a Framework of Overall Moral Character Development
August 11, 2014 by Fr. Paul Anthony McGavin
A seminary that is on-going in the cultivation and the learning of the skills of virtue as an expression of life-in-Christ, and as lived testimony to the Gospel, will be a seminary that is prepared to discern, and to equip, young men for a … [Read more...]
The Holy Family, Celibacy, and Marriage: A Reflection on the “Passage” from the Jewish Rite of Marriage to the Sacrament of Marriage
August 11, 2014 by Francis Etheredge
If the sacrament of marriage came to be specified at a particular moment, then as the renewal of marriage was itself an indication of a new beginning ... it makes sense that the marriage of Mary and Joseph was precisely the implicitly … [Read more...]
The Problem with “Not” Having a Personal Relationship with Jesus
August 11, 2014 by Dr. Carole Brown
Christian believers know the God who created the Universe ... as a person who reveals himself as Love and Gift, and Personal in his nature. Jesus revealed that the One True God also has an inner life that is not only personal, but … [Read more...]
Mythbuster Extraordinaire: How Benedict Tackled False Christologies
August 11, 2014 by Wanda Skowronska, PhD
Christians sense there is something radically wrong in trying to put Christ into strange molds, where long-held Christian beliefs about Christ are attacked from all sides. As Benedict stated in his Dunwoodie address to seminarians, to see … [Read more...]
Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: The History of Anti-Catholic Violence in the U.S.
August 11, 2014 by Fr. David J. Endres
We do not recall these instances of anti-Catholicism to foster more animosity or violence, but recall them as part of our history, a history that, like so many others, included the targeting of ethnic and religious groups for … [Read more...]
Questions Answered
August 11, 2014 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
Does the Church state that there is an ideal form of government? What Magisterial status does the teaching of the popes on contraception enjoy? Can it be changed? Must we believe it? Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, and A … [Read more...]
“Ressourcement,” “Aggiornamento,” and Vatican II in Ecumenical Perspective
July 26, 2014 by Eduardo Echeverria
(S)ome interpreters of Vatican II took renewal to be merely a matter of the Church’s adaptation or accommodation to the standards of the modern world ... they took aggiornamento as an “isolated motive for renewal” ... simply adapting to the … [Read more...]
Competing Theories of Christ’s Atonement: Penal Substitution, Economic Transaction, or Obediential Love?
July 26, 2014 by Book Reviews
The Passion is understood as an act of a personal God atoning for the personal offense of sin. The personalist understanding of the atonement is deeply linked to the framework of the relationship between Christ and the members of his … [Read more...]
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