By Eric Martin Warning: this post includes a graphic image of a victim of drone attacks There are hard questions American Christian theologians must ask in lieu of the Rehman family’s Congressional testimony last Tuesday. […]
Purgatory: Healing the Brokenness of Christ’s Body
Purgatory is a word haunted by ghosts: the ghosts of Reformers rightly objecting to Tetzel’s alms-box, the spirits of my pious grandparents, praying from devotionals filled with prayers promising days and years remitted from purgatorial punishment. […]
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 […]
Out of the Ashes Comes a New Community
By Krista Stevens Rick Grimes: “You’re a man of God. Have some faith.” Hershel Greene: “I can’t profess to understand God’s plan. Christ promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something […]
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 […]
Salvation for All? A Deeper Look at Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Soteriology
Every year on the first day of Christology class, one of my sophomores raises their hand (usually half way during our fascinating analysis of the syllabus and classroom rules) and asks the following question, “Mr. […]
Fear. A Theological Look at Lynching, Racism, and Modern Society.
Disclaimer: Please note, this post contains graphic discussions of slavery and lynching, including a graphic image of the latter. In a destitute area of the South Bronx in 1995, Jonathan Kozol was interviewing schoolchildren concerning […]
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. […]
Heaven on Their Minds: Salvation, Commodity, and Relationship
I should probably begin by making a confession (we are talking about the afterlife, after all). The question of salvation has not been a big one in my life. I haven’t spent a lot of […]
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