Last year at the annual Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, a motion was put forward to add the Nicene Creed to its doctrinal statement.[1. Mark Wingfield, “Motion will ask SBC to add … [Read more...]
Articles
Truth in Dying: The Perfection of the Virtues in a Dying Christian
This article presents a Thomistic portrait of how the virtues of the Christian life come to their full flowering in the person who is dying in the state of grace. Please note that the article is not only concerned with the infused virtues, … [Read more...]
“As We Await the Redemption of Our Body”
Part 1: Status Quaestionis Reflecting on inordinate desire and making a distinction between desire for things that are pleasurable to the senses (bodily) and desire for things pleasurable to the psyche, such as ambition or avarice, it is … [Read more...]
Loving through Illness: Mental Illness and the Beauty of Suffering
Why do some speak so strongly against mental illness and those who suffer with it? With mental illness as common today as many other illnesses, one questions why there is a negative stigma connected to illnesses of the mind. We, as human … [Read more...]
Homiletic Questions
The Church has called its clergy to preach the Word for centuries. It did not, however, lay down in a definitive way just how to do that. Preaching adapted, as it should, to the needs of the time. Ways of preaching in the patristic, … [Read more...]
The Triumph of Our Lady
The Christians were outnumbered; the odds were stacked against them. The sea was speckled with great ships and gleaming swords. The Ottoman armada had assembled, come to conquer the Christian world. It was around this time of year, some 450 … [Read more...]
The Glorified and Ascended Body of Christ in St. Ignatius of Antioch
Foundation for Deification and Union with the Trinity Through the Eucharist
St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35–107 AD),[1. Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. (2005), “Ignatius of Antioch.”] an early Christian bishop, theologian, and martyr, was born in Syria and became the third bishop of Antioch. Ignatius often refers t … [Read more...]
The Unseen Doorkeeper
There is a common joke about the struggle of kids growing up whose birthday falls in December and is “so close to Christmas . . . that must be hard.” Is there a similar sentiment for Saints whose feast day falls so close to All Saints Day … [Read more...]
Grace at Work
“There was a man who lived on the Great Blasker island off the coast of Kerry, Ireland, who worked from dawn to dusk every day of the week. He owned a small flock of sheep. He was short of help, and his family being young, he had no time to … [Read more...]
Evangelizing in the Workplace
Doing It Respectfully, Well, and Within Key Parameters
August 29, 2025 by Peter Smudde
A major area of common ground among all of us is work. After all, after collecting statistical data about lifespan, expected retirement, hours of work per day, number of work weeks in a year, and number of hours people in the U.S. sleep, … [Read more...]
Patristic Pastoral Theology: Gregory of Nazianzus and Augustine of Hippo
August 29, 2025 by Fr. Noel Custodio
For you I am a bishop; but with you I am a Christian. – St. Augustine of Hippo[1. Augustine of Hippo, quoted in Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Vatican website (21 November 1964), available at: h … [Read more...]
The Sacerdotal Canons of Trent, Their Foundations, and Their Persistence
August 29, 2025 by Jennifer Ely
The Council of Trent provided for the Catholic Church and her adversaries a foundational structure for much of her teachings across a great many areas of theology, including the basis for her teachings on Original Sin, Justification, and — m … [Read more...]
Disciplining Priests: A Synodal Moment?
August 29, 2025 by Daniel Cere
In the past few decades, the Catholic Church has faced major challenges ranging from the sexual abuse crisis to financial collapse of numerous dioceses. One area that receives little attention is the deepening malaise of morale among … [Read more...]
Strengthening the Priesthood in the United States
August 29, 2025 by Matthew Robinson
Practically speaking, the contemporary Church has made a strategic error in its renewal efforts: attempting a new evangelization without revitalizing its priests. I say “practically speaking” because, while there have been high-level eff … [Read more...]
Faith and Reason: How the College General Education Curriculum Is Fundamental for a Catholic Renewal
July 30, 2025 by David M. Klocek
At last I went to the artisans, for I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they knew many fine things; and in this I was not mistaken, for they did know many things of which I was ignorant, and in this … [Read more...]
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