For December 1, December 8, Immaculate Conception, December 15, December 22, Christmas, and Holy Family. 1st Sunday of Advent – December 1, 2019 Readings: Is 2:1–5 • Ps 122:1–9 • Rom 12:11–14 • Mt 24:37–44 usccb.org/bible/r … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2019
Canon Law, Civil Law, and the Current Crisis in the Church
Reflections of a Civil Lawyer Studying Canon Law in Rome
November 25, 2019 by Michael J. Mazza
Last fall I left my job as a corporate lawyer and began studying canon law in Rome. Explaining my rationale to my colleagues wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined. Whether they were practicing Catholics, fallen-away Catholics, not-yet C … [Read more...]
Human and Divine Fatherhood in The Violent Bear It Away and Gilead
November 25, 2019 by Sr. Mary John Kramer, OP
The Violent Bear It Away and Gilead show the role of prophet as a preacher of the Lord as a genetic vocation growing out of ‘blood’ and family bonds, but responded to in varying degrees and manifestations. While Marilynne Robinson paints a p … [Read more...]
John of the Cross and Exercising Charisms for Evangelization
A Response to Elizabeth Salas
November 25, 2019 by Fr. Mathias D. Thelen, STL
Once in a while I run into statements like: “Catholics shouldn’t seek to exercise the charisms of the Spirit because St. John of the Cross cautioned against them.” Such concerns come in different forms and are usually raised by people who si … [Read more...]
Review: The Devil’s Redemption
November 25, 2019 by Dr. Ralph Martin, STD
McClymond, Michael J. The Devil’s Redemption: A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018. This is a very important book. In two large and carefully documented volumes Dr. McClymond, a p … [Read more...]
The “Female Diaconate” after the Amazon Synod
The Mystery of Human Sexuality in the Woman at the Well and the Vital Sacrament of Apostolic Succession
November 25, 2019 by Scott Pauline
In light of the recent Amazon Synod, the question of the female diaconate has once again been raised. It is more than obvious that novelty and change are today’s signs of progress. In the twentieth century, for example, scientific a … [Read more...]
The Whale in the Bath
November 25, 2019 by Francis Etheredge
Is mass communication like a background noise that is just loud enough to catch our attention and make it difficult for us to concentrate on what we are doing and yet not loud enough so that we can hear clearly what is going on? Are … [Read more...]
The Moral Theology of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
November 25, 2019 by John Madigan
St. Thérèse of Lisieux was born in 1873 in France, the youngest of the nine children given to Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin. Zelie Martin died while Thérèse was very young, so Thérèse adopted her older sister Pauline as her surrogate mother. T … [Read more...]
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