What, if anything, does the great feast of Pentecost say to the Church today?
Category: Discipleship
Confronted, Confronting, Comforted: Reflections for Holy Week’s “Ordinary Days”
Holy Week balances the drama and ordinariness of Jesus’s last days in almost equal measure. Holy Week’s high liturgies literally script us into Jesus’s last days. We waved palms for Jesus and demanded His crucifixion […]
Celebrating Three Years of Francis
I really can’t believe it has been 3 years (and one day) since the election of Pope Francis. I was sitting in my library carrel on the 11th floor of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh library, […]
Undocumented Immigrants and the Task of the Catholic University
On one of my last days as a high school religion teacher, I walked into the classroom and began by asking the students if they had any questions on the previous night’s homework. One of […]
Baptism in an Indifferent World
The feast of the Lord’s Baptism has much to say to the culture of indifference that allows the destruction of people and planet. The Lord’s baptism invites us to develop an incarnational spirituality throughout our lives.
From the Editors: On Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
We, as Christian theologians in the public sphere, stand together in solidarity with Muslims in the United States in support of all Muslim citizens and residents of the United States. We do so not despite […]
M.I.A., Refugees, & the Church–“What’s up with that?”
After analyzing M.I.A’s latest song and music video, this blog entry raises questions about what it means to be church in the midst of the refugee crisis and argues that when refugees drown, we the Church drown too
Raising Hell*
Editors’ note: This post was originally part of Theological Shark Week V: Holy Hell?! Daily Theology Explores the Afterlife in October 2013. As a child, I was fascinated by one part of the Apostles’ Creed: […]
St. Jerome: the patron of irascible, morbidly sensitive, old curmudgeons
From the editors: this guest post is from Stuart Squires, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theology at Brescia University. He may be reached at Squires3@yahoo.com, www.stuartsquires.com Today, September 30th, is the feast of St. Jerome (ca. 331—ca. 420), who, […]
The Assumption: A Call to Walk with God
Growing up in a parish dedicated to St. Mary of the Assumption, with so many stained glass windows, statues, songs and prayers dedicated to events in the life of the mother of Jesus, I think […]
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