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 […]
“Gather Around A Promise”: Hospitality, the Feast of the Visitation, and the College Theology Society
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation. In the story of the Visitation, we encounter Mary and Elizabeth providing bodily hospitality to their sons, extending loving hospitality to one another, and being held in […]
Frozen’s “True Love” and the Duty of St. Joan of Arc
Today, May 30, is the feast of St. Joan of Arc, that 15th century mystic, visionary, and soldier whose life has touched millions of people for the last few hundred years. While I am not […]
The Ascension – Jesus’ Feet, Our Feet
“This Jesus whom you saw ascending into heaven will return as you saw him go, alleluia” Depending on which diocese you live in, either today (Thursday) or this coming Sunday is the Feast of the […]
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 […]
Pope Francis, Missionary to the Martians
On Monday, May 12th, Pope Francis framed his homily around the day’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the episode when Peter is forced to recognize the common humanity and valid desire for baptism […]
The Mural on Amesbury: Theological Aesthetics and Naming the Urban Poor
By Meg Stapleton Smith Lawrence, a city of 76,000 squeezed into about seven square miles, is an old mill city situated along the Merrimac River in Northeastern Massachusetts. Decrepit smokestacks and abandoned factories from 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 […]
Sharing the Vision of Saint John XXIII
Daily Theology invited Randall Rosenberg to reflect on his motivations for writing The Vision of Saint John XXIII, and what he discovered along the way. By Randall Rosenberg On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of […]
The Tragedy of Catholicism and Race on the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States is overwhelmingly composed of Roman Catholics. Of the nine justices, six affirm themselves as Roman Catholic, while the other three self-identify as Jewish. This is a very new phenomenon, in place only […]
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