Season 3 of the podcast comes to a close with Steve Okey’s conversation with Greg Hillis of Bellarmine University! They met up at this past summer’s CTSA annual conference to talk about how a year […]
Tag: Thomas Merton
Reinhardt in Jerusalem
When I turned the corner past a small Rothko, I broke into a smile: here, in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, I found a 1966 Ad Reinhardt painting, lingering around, unattended as usual. I had […]
Theology 101: Salvation
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 […]
The New Normal
By Christopher Pramuk, Xavier University “It’s almost impossible to hold officers accountable, barring incredible circumstances. The public just accepts that this is what police had to do.” In an intelligent and brave piece published recently […]
Christ Comes Uninvited
While being interviewed by Krista Tippett for the On Being podcast, actor and activist Martin Sheen shared his favorite passage from Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton… words that I’ve not been able to […]
Easter Sunday: Resurrected Reality
At Easter, and in every Eucharist, we celebrate the fullness of the paschal mystery: Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection. The resurrection does not erase the suffering and death of Christ, nor does it remove our […]
The Continuing Draw of Thomas Merton
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 […]
Pope Francis at the Corner of 4th and Walnut
By Gregory Hillis Eleven days after Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected as Pope John XXIII, Thomas Merton wrote the following words in his journal: “John XXIII seems to me to be a most wonderful Pope […]
Christmas Ecstasy
“All love tends towards ecstasy,” Thomas Merton writes, “in the sense that it takes us out of ourselves and makes us live in the object of our love.” For the God who is love, this […]
