Just a quick reflection on this happy day for all Thomas Aquinas nerds. If you’re a fanboy/girl of the wonderful Aquinas and his Thomist legacy, but especially if you’re not, I want to recommend two […]
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Jesus on a Plane – The Sixth Day of Christmas
I’m writing this post from row 31 of US Airways Flight 2064 on the second leg of my flight from Alabama to New York. Having spent a relaxing nine days at my parents’ house in […]
Seeing myself in Juan Diego
I am an American Catholic of primarily Irish, Swiss and English descent. The part of my background that I identify with the most is my Irish cultural heritage perhaps because I am way over the […]
Ferguson and Staten Island: What I Have Done, and What I Failed to Do
I’ve been struggling, like many, in the past weeks and especially in the past 48 hours to think and respond to the failure of grand juries to indict either Officer Darren Wilson for the death […]
The First Sunday in Advent: A Spirituality of the Liturgical Year
You may have noticed a change in the décor around church this Sunday: perhaps there were some new missalettes in the pews or maybe your priest greeted you in his homily with a hearty “Happy […]
A New Year’s Eve After Christ
Today the Church celebrates its New Year’s Eve–tomorrow is the first day of Advent. In many ways this new year begins like those before, for we wait amidst questions. We look for answers to the […]
Nonviolence Is Not White Bourgeois Propriety
As a white guy wading into the thicket of commentary related to Ferguson, I need to say one thing up front: The economic, political, and social structures of white supremacy that both overtly and covertly […]
A Bishop (Finally) Speaks – #BlackCatholicHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter
It is with no irony that I remind our good readers that the events of Ferguson are happening amid Black Catholic History Month in the US Catholic Church. It was thus with great anticipation that I […]
Rituals of Hope and All Souls’ Day
The theology of All Souls’ Day is often explained in connection with Purgatory; for example, Michael Rubbelke wrote a great post on Purgatory and prayers for the dead last year during Daily Theology’s Halloween-themed Shark […]
“Like a Virgin” touched (by God?!) for the very first time
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa” (1647–52), Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome The tradition of mystical ecstasy has claimed yet another victory for an orgasmic imagining of the encounter with God. In her autobiography, […]
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