When I turned the corner past a small Rothko, I broke into a smile: here, in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, I found a 1966 Ad Reinhardt painting, lingering around, unattended as usual. I had […]
Category: Mystery
Embracing Mystery: Spiritual Connections in Faith and Astronomy
Given yesterday’s NASA announcement of seven exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1 (whether it’s named after the beer or the monastic order is currently unclear), I thought it would be timely to publish some personal reflections […]
Theology 101: Dangerous Memories
Editor’s Note: Theology 101 is a new series from Daily Theology that aims to bring difficult and often confusing theological topics to an everyday level. They are perfect for classroom discussions, small groups, parish meetings, or, […]
Grace in Finitude: Running the Boston Marathon with Karl Rahner
By Lucas Briola I have spent most of the past few months doing two things: trudging through hundreds of pages of Karl Rahner and trudging through hundreds of miles in the Boston winter. No, I […]
Catherine Tekakwitha and the Strangeness of Holiness
Today is the feast of the newly canonized (2012) Saint Catherine Tekakwitha. In much of this post I’m relying for the historical facts and some of the theoretical discussion upon the excellent book Mohawk Saint: […]
The Death of Saints I Never Knew
In The Life You Save May Be Your Own, a book about the lives of Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, and Thomas Merton, author Paul Elie describes learning about the lives of others as […]
Different Holy Thursday: A Celebration of Eucharist with No Priest
By Catherine Heinhold, a Maryknoll Lay Missioner in São Paulo, Brazil. It’s Holy Thursday, my favorite mass of the year. I love the washing of the feet, the call to service, the power of MEMORY in the […]
A Theology of Annunciation–or, on asking questions of God
There’s this: Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.” The angel replied, “I am Gabriel. […]
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 […]
Living the Questions
By Meg Stapleton Smith A couple of months ago, I was sitting in my office working on a lesson plan when Veronica, a freshman student at my high school, abrasively stormed through the doorway. “So, […]
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