Faith
Lent and the Challenge of the Gospel
by Fr. Steve Grunow . April 5, 2019 .
Five Features of Faith
by Fr. Billy Swan . April 1, 2019 .
A Salt and Empty Earth
by Bishop Robert Barron . February 17, 2019 .
I would like to focus on the brief but extremely powerful passage from the book of the prophet Jeremiah, which is our first reading for this weekend. It is taken from the seventeenth chapter of the prophet’s book, and the context is a fierce upbraiding that Jeremiah is giving for the idolatry of the people. What we have here is the pithy formula, the simple program, that ought to govern our spiritual lives at the most fundamental level.
The Challenge of Being a Christian
by Matt Nelson . November 14, 2018 .
What Young People REALLY Think About God and the Church
by Brandon Vogt . November 6, 2018 .
Hear, O Israel
by Bishop Robert Barron . November 4, 2018 .
Our first reading for Mass this week contains the defining prayer of the Jewish tradition: the “Sh’ma.” In the Gospel, when asked which commandment is the greatest, Jesus, a pious Jew, recites this prayer from the book of Deuteronomy. We Christians too claim—or better, are claimed by—this great prayer. But what does it mean?
Where Is God? The Problem of Divine Hiddenness
by Matt Nelson . October 24, 2018 .
St. Teresa’s Logical Ecstasy
by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . October 15, 2018 .
