Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) is an incredibly complex figure, an immensely influential and vastly charitable saint of great faith on the one hand, and a stubborn, headstrong, and deeply, fatally flawed human on the […]
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Palm Sunday: Affirming the Value of All Living
The Palm Sunday liturgy produces a tension in us. The stories that we tell are really a process, a journey that we call Passion. We have Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the one hand […]
at a payphone at a gas station on Christmas Eve
And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to […]
Grace in Finitude: Running the Boston Marathon with Karl Rahner
By Lucas Briola I have spent most of the past few months doing two things: trudging through hundreds of pages of Karl Rahner and trudging through hundreds of miles in the Boston winter. No, I […]
Angels in the Outfield? – The Feast of Ss. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael
Major League Baseball concluded its regular season schedule on Sunday, and the best record in the American League belongs to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Despite its redundant and unwieldy moniker, this popular baseball […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introducing Shark Week V…”Holy Hell?! Daily Theology considers the afterlife.”
I’d like to welcome you to the fifth installment of the much heralded “Theological Shark Week,” hosted here at Daily Theology. Shark Week is a time for multiple authors to address a central and compelling […]
Downton Abbey’s Finale and the Tragedy of Benedict XVI
I would caution anyone who did not see last night’s episode to stop reading at this point. So many SPOILERS. First of all, let me apologize for the absence of a Downton reflection last week. […]
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