The season of Advent, that perennial season of waiting, is a time for hope. From the hope-filled readings of Isaiah that demarcate our liturgies and remind us that when all is said and done, all […]
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Was Jesus Tortured?
This year, on the First Wednesday of Advent (Dec 3), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a report on the CIA’s interrogation tactics between late 2001 and early 2009, when President Obama took office and banned “enhanced interrogation […]
Memory Eternal on the Nineveh Plain
By Chris Hadley, S.J. “Nineveh is destroyed! Who can pity her? Where can one find any to console her?” (Nahum 3:7). “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and […]
Fear or Faith?
At my first communion, I received a picture Bible. All the stories were told through comic strips, like the Bible version of Rex Morgan, M.D. Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, Isaac, Leah, Rachel, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, […]
The Wonderful Incomprehensibility of God’s Salvation
By Patrick Manning When I was twelve years old, I came face-to-face with death in dramatic fashion. Our entire community had been shocked to learn of the death of the father of one of my […]
Writing about our bodies… and the Body of Christ
The last few weeks my introduction to Catholicism class has been exploring our being embodied. We’ve been talking about worship and formation, about eating and drinking, about Stations of the Cross and sacramental signs. But before […]
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