By: Robert A. Krieg, University of Notre Dame What is salvation? And how do we find it? According to some Christians, a follower of Jesus should know the day and hour when he or she was […]
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Going Out and Coming Back: The Second Sunday of Advent
The reading from the Book of Psalms often gets overlooked in Mass. As a former music minister, I struggled with the fact that there’s not a perfect melody for every psalm each Sunday, but there’s only so […]
Raising Hell*
Editors’ note: This post was originally part of Theological Shark Week V: Holy Hell?! Daily Theology Explores the Afterlife in October 2013. As a child, I was fascinated by one part of the Apostles’ Creed: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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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