By Michael Anthony Novak “On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on […]
Tag: Catholicism
Aquinas Nerds Rejoice! (or, Happy Feast Day Thomas!)
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 […]
The Feast of St. Francis Xavier: Becoming a “Companion” with Strangers in the “Joy of the Gospel”
For two wonderful years, I was a faculty member at Xavier High School in New York City. Although no stranger to Jesuits and Jesuit education, I admit I knew little of the man whose name […]
Baseball and Catholic Faith
I look forward to October every year – the peak of autumn filled with pumpkin based recipes, New England foliage, and warm apple cider on chilly fall days. Still, my favorite part of October will […]
A College of One’s Own: The Need to Explore the Contributions of Women Religious in Catholic Higher Education
Who have been some of the most influential Catholic intellectuals in your life? Many of us who attended Catholic colleges and universities can probably remember a significant woman religious on our campus who embodied that […]
Living Solidarity, Living Catholicism
In his book, Tattoos on the Heart, Fr. Greg Boyle S.J. reminds us that, “The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with […]
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 3: Racism, Bigotry, and Theology
Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is being co-published at DT’s Blog Partner, “Raids Across the Color Line.” Before you go on, it may be helpful to read the first and second parts of the series. The opposite […]
The CTSA Kerfuffle: Struggle On Sisters and Brothers
*Please see a note of clarification from Holly Taylor-Coolman in the first comment in the comments section below Introduction As I wade into the discussion about the recent happenings at the Catholic Theological Society of […]
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 […]
