In principio erat Verbum – Jn 1:1 The spirit of our age is one of irrationality. We are suspicious of people that make (universal) truth claims. We are suspicious of our own ability to reason and arrive at such claims. Our Post-Modern a … [Read more...]
Changes to College Priestly Formation: A Defense
May 24, 2024 by Fr. Etienne Huard, O.S.B.
Belonging to a few online priest support groups, I have noticed a question gaining popularity: the value of the changes in priestly formation. The concern is focused on the perception that this change creates an additional year of … [Read more...]
Are AI-Generated Homilies Suitable for the Edification and Flourishing of the Catholic Faithful?
May 24, 2024 by Pedro Vega
Approach to the Subject Of late, many ethicists, computer scientists, and media experts have highlighted the emergence of data processing systems known as Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) not only because they promise a … [Read more...]
Teaching Theology to Gen Z
Three Lessons from Henri de Lubac
April 26, 2024 by Dr. Sara Hulse Kirby
Each fall, as I prepare to stand before a classroom of undergraduates, required as they are to take my Introduction to Catholic Theology course, I reconsider how to teach the faith most effectively. This task has become more challenging … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – January 2024
December 29, 2023 by Book Reviews
Ecclesial Exegesis: A Synthesis of Ancient and Modern Approaches to Scripture. By Gregory Vall. Reviewed by D. Malachi Walker. (skip to review) God’s Call is Everywhere: A Global Analysis of Contemporary Religious Vocations for Women. By … [Read more...]
Toward Evangelization of Creators of the Christian Culture
October 27, 2023 by Fr. Zbigniew Tyburski, PhD
Saint John Paul II, during his pontificate of nearly twenty-seven years, had two main streams of thought. They can be characterized as the preservation of the Christian heritage and the transformation of contemporary secular culture through … [Read more...]
The Very Stones Would Cry Out
Architecture and Evangelization
October 27, 2023 by Jason Honeycutt
In his 1998 work, Architecture in Communion, architect Steven Schloeder offers for consideration a twofold problem: first, the problem of how to design for contemporary, post-Vatican II liturgy, and second, what, if anything, should a … [Read more...]
Preachers of the ERD
August 28, 2023 by Deacon Gregory Webster
Deacons must be comfortable with proclaiming the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. The wisdom of the ERD is not commonly shared with Catholics in the pews. The United States Conference of Catholic … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – July 2023
June 23, 2023 by Book Reviews
In the School of the Word: Biblical Interpretation from the New to the Old Testament. By Carlos Granados and Luis Sánchez-Navarro. Reviewed by Sr. Mary Micaela Hoffmann, RSM. (skip to review) Jesus Becoming Jesus (Volume 3): A T … [Read more...]
Sacrificing Sacrifice
May 26, 2023 by E. Tyler Graham
In the midst of the Eucharistic Revival, Dr. Lawrence Feingold, seminary professor at Kenrick-Glennon and author of (among many other things) The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion, suggests that we may be missing … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – June 2023
May 26, 2023 by Book Reviews
As a Priest Thinks, So He Is. Ed. by Beth Rath McGough and Patricia Pintado-Murphy. Reviewed by M. Ross Romero, S.J. (skip to review) Pray, Think, Act: Make Better Decisions with the Desert Fathers. By Augustine J. Wetta, O.S.B. Reviewed … [Read more...]
Pope Benedict XVI Has Found What He’s Been Looking For
January 27, 2023 by E. Tyler Graham
In a relatively recent children’s animated movie sequel, “Sing 2” (yes, the sequel to Sing!), the producers succeeded in getting the famous lead singer “Bono” (from the band U2) to be the voice for the main hero of the movie. Bono is voice-o … [Read more...]
Before and After the First Papal Tweet
How Benedict XVI Promoted “Communio” in a World of Social Communications
January 27, 2023 by Fr. Thomas F. Dailey
Originally presented at a conference on “Catholicity as Gift and Task” on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Communio, at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry (Rochester, NY) on October 2, 2022. The historic date was 12/12 … [Read more...]
How Appealing to “Inclusivity” Is Detrimental
September 30, 2022 by Abbot Austin Murphy
On February 7, 2022, Brantly Millegan was fired as the director of operations for Ethereum Name Services (ENS). The cause for his termination was a Tweet that he posted in 2016 that expressed Catholic moral teachings in blunt form. It read: … [Read more...]
Can We Be Recognized As Christians?
Practicing Love in Contentious Times
September 30, 2022 by S. E. Greydanus
“By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). Christ thus established love as the essential identifying mark of those who belong to Him. Love reveals the Christian; conversely, if we do … [Read more...]
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