Disclaimer: season 1 spoilers ahead (but it’s been a year already, so that’s on you) Season 2 of House of Cards was released yesterday on Netflix. In sticking with Netflix’s formula, all the episodes were […]
Category: Saints
The Feast Day of C.S. Lewis, Patron of the Imagination
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. Known perhaps best as an author of children’s fiction and as a Christian apologist, Lewis was a student of the imagination and talented in […]
To be in that Number: Death, Friends, and the Communion of Saints
“The hardest thing in the world is to be where we are,” Rowan Williams observes. And yet where we are is often precisely where God asks us to be. God asks us to be attentive to all that surrounds us and honest […]
Communion(s) of Saints
By Rev. Aaron Pidel, S.J. Among the achievements commonly credited to twentieth-century Catholic theology is the recovery of Christianity’s “social dimension.” As the standard account goes, yesterday’s Catholics remained blissfully absorbed in a solitary quest […]
Putting the “Hallow” in Halloween: Paranormal Fascination and the Sacramental Imagination
By Katharine Mahon I saw this gem of a meme on Facebook the other day; it says, “End the War on Halloween! Put the “Hallow” back in HALLOWEEN!!!” This meme’s creator is riffing off of […]
Should Catholics Believe in Ghosts? A Primer on Good & Evil Spirits, Saints & the Power of Intercessory Prayer
By Christine McCarthy In October 2001, on a crisp and clear evening, my fellow Boston College freshmen housemates took a twilight stroll through Brighton’s Evergreen Cemetery, a shortcut from our off-campus dorm to McGuinn Hall. […]
Introducing Shark Week V…”Holy Hell?! Daily Theology considers the afterlife.”
I’d like to welcome you to the fifth installment of the much heralded “Theological Shark Week,” hosted here at Daily Theology. Shark Week is a time for multiple authors to address a central and compelling […]
A Mother’s Day Interview with Julian of Norwich
Yesterday being Mother’s Day, one does not expect to find a sermon relating the absence of one’s father on a business trip to the ascension of Jesus, and one might be surprised to hear a […]
Oscar Romero, Pray For Us
Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the assassination and martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. Though many of us – inspired by his witness, his conversion, his commitment to justice, and his love […]
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 […]
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