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Back to SearchThe Ten Commandments
Although most of our parents's generation knew the Ten Commandments by heart, few Christians today can recite them. The liturgy today invites us to r…
11 years, 2 months ago
The Mystical Transfiguration of Christ
The story of the Transfiguration of Christ has beguiled the Christian mind for centuries. It is the clearest New Testament evocation of mystical expe…
11 years, 2 months ago
The Ark, the Mass, and Re-Ordering the World
As Lent commences, the pews will be filled with people escaping the chaos of the modern world and finding a place of peace and order within the ship-…
11 years, 2 months ago
Evangelizing Out of the Encounter
Season 1 Episode 1
The strange and unsettling Gospel account of the leper approaching Jesus is the manifestation of the deeply held notions of purity and impurity, noti…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Spirituality of Pain
Why would an all-powerful and all-loving God allow his people to suffer so much? That's one of the oldest and most difficult theological questions. O…
11 years, 3 months ago
Radical Christianity
When Christianity is reduced to deism or moralism, we turn the Gospel into a faint echo of the surrounding culture. But today's readings propose some…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Call of Samuel
The story of the call of Samuel is illuminating for our time of corruption and cleansing. I argue that the sex abuse scandal in the church should be …
11 years, 3 months ago
Priest, Prophet, and King
All the baptized participate in Christ. Since Christ is the fulfillment of the priest, prophet, and king that means that all the baptized are those a…
11 years, 4 months ago
Feast of the Epiphany
Our modern culture suggests a tension between spirituality and religion. But the Magi in today's Gospel demonstrate that when spirituality is lifted …
11 years, 4 months ago