Today is the feast of St. Perpetua and St. Felicity. These two women were martyred in the early 3rd century for entering the catechumenate and being baptized. Perpetua (a noblewoman) was a nursing mother and […]
Category: Lent
True Value
On Monday my Facebook feed revealed that a friendly acquaintance has an article coming out in a prestigious academic journal. While I wish my first thoughts had been, “Oh good, some new take on the […]
Lent 2014
As the season of Lent begins this week, we at Daily Theology will collect our reflections on this page as a handy reference. We will be bringing you posts for each Sunday as well as […]
Why I Am Fasting from Facebook for Lent
Note from Editors: Although it’s still Monday and people are partying somewhere where it’s not so cold, we at DT thought it would be nice to reflect on Lenten “giving-upness,” in the form of Brian […]
Jesus Christ Superstar: Who Do You Say I Am?
For me, the staple film of Holy Week is Jesus Christ Superstar. The first time I saw the film was in high school when VH1 was airing it on Palm Sunday. Being an early 1970’s […]
Millions: The Deeper Gaze of Almsgiving
First off, apologies for not having a post up last Wednesday. I had hoped to write about the Lenten discipline of fasting using the film Chocolat, but, as you may have heard, Pope Francis was […]
Confronting Our Moral Failure: 10 Years After the Iraq War
“NO TO WAR”! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity….And what are we to say of the threat of a war which could strike the people of Iraq, the land […]
Romero: Prayer in Hours of Darkness
The film Romero covers the three years that Romero served as Archbishop of San Salvador. In that period, Romero underwent a conversion from accepting the status quo in El Salvador to championing the rights of […]
The Mission: Choose Your Own Penance
Between high school, college, and my PhD program, I have spent nearly 14 years being formed intellectually and spiritually by Jesuits. Thus it should come as no surprise that Roland Joffe’s The Mission, a moving […]
Nanni Moretti’s “We Have a Pope”
I have been meaning to see Nanni Moretti’s film We Have a Pope ever since I first saw the trailer a year or so ago. The basic premise of the film is that a cardinal, […]
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