In the western church yesterday, July 22, was the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, named the apostola apostolorum, the Apostle to the Apostles, thanks to her unique role as the first disciple to see the […]
Category: Ministry
Finding Sainthood: An Academic Contribution to Nicholas Black Elk’s Cause for Canonization
By Michael Steltenkamp, S.J. A well-known passage in the New Testament reports an incident that took place after the resurrection of Jesus (Luke 24:13-36). The scene depicts two of his disciples walking on a road […]
The Feast of Ambrose of Milan: Preaching the Good News, Ready or Not
Nestled in between the feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra on December 6th (also known as Santa Claus, gifter of candy in shoes and purported puncher of Arius at the Council of Nicaea) and the […]
Scattered On The Hillside: Some Thoughts on Discipleship, Community, and Blogging
One of the most challenging aspects of moving away from Boston and beginning my new life in Montana was leaving my community behind. After ten years in that city, I had formed a tight friendship […]
A Tale of Two Churches: The 1% Shall Be First and the Religious Shall be Last
Upon arriving in New York, Pope Francis immediately traveled to the center of the city’s ecclesial and civic life for a service of “Vespers with the Clergy, Men and Women Religious” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral […]
The Complex Catherine of Siena and the Sin of Simplifying Saints
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) is an incredibly complex figure, an immensely influential and vastly charitable saint of great faith on the one hand, and a stubborn, headstrong, and deeply, fatally flawed human on the […]
Angels in the Outfield? – The Feast of Ss. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael
Major League Baseball concluded its regular season schedule on Sunday, and the best record in the American League belongs to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Despite its redundant and unwieldy moniker, this popular baseball […]
Broadening Our Horizons Recognizing the Diversity of Ecclesial Movements
This past weekend I had the chance to participate (along with several other DT bloggers) in the College Theology Society’s (CTS) annual meeting on the theme, God has begun a Great Work in Us: The […]
Hispanic Ministry and Parish Life
This semester I’ve had the pleasure of working with ten undergraduate students in a course called “Foundations for Ministry,” which is geared toward exploration of lay ministry in the Catholic church today. The sources we’ve […]
Serving Imagination on Holy Thursday
In The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene tells the story of the “whisky priest,” a minister whose brokenness is evident to many of the other characters, and perhaps most especially to himself. A revolution […]
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