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Blessed Are You: A Virtual Graduation Address to the Class of ’20
by Fr. Damian Ference . June 2, 2020 .
Reckoning with the Complexities of Humankind
by Dr. Tod Worner . June 1, 2020 .
Pentecost and the Fires in Our Cities
by Bishop Robert Barron . May 31, 2020 .
It is in a way providential that the Feast of Pentecost arrives this year just as our country is going through a convulsive social crisis. For the Holy Spirit, whose coming we celebrate on Pentecost, is a power meant to transform the world, or in the language of Psalm 104,…
St. Basil the Great on Fasting
by Fr. Blake Britton . May 29, 2020 .
Bishop Barron on Netflix’s “Unorthodox” and the Modern Myth of Origins
by Bishop Robert Barron . May 28, 2020 .
In my newest video commentary, I talk about “Unorthodox,” a mini-series that debuted on Netflix a few weeks ago. It’s an admittedly compelling and well-acted drama, but more than a little problematic.
“The Chosen”: Get Used to Different
by Rachel Bulman . May 27, 2020 .
The Birthday of the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
by Bishop Robert Barron . May 31, 2020 .
On this great feast of Pentecost, I would like to say “happy birthday” to every Catholic listening to me, for we hold, in our traditional theology, that Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. It would behoove us on this our birthday to reflect on the nature of the Church.
“Unorthodox” and the Modern Myth of Origins
by Bishop Robert Barron . May 26, 2020 .
Unorthodox, a mini-series that debuted on Netflix a few weeks ago, is the story of a young woman who escapes from her oppressive Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and finds freedom with a group of welcoming friends in Berlin. I offer this description with tongue pretty firmly in cheek, because,…
St. Philip Neri and the Wisdom of Holy Fools
by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . May 26, 2020 .
