Three in One - Editorial, February 2010
Editorial, February 2010Every year priests are called upon to preach on the Holy Trinity on Trinity Sunday. That is a sermon I very much like to give because it gives me the opportunity to explain for...
View ArticleThe Vertex of Love
When Mary was predestined in one and the same decree with Jesus Christ by the design of God—before the creation of angels or the universe, and before the existence of sin or evil—she was predestined to...
View ArticleMay 2013 Homilies
For Sunday Liturgies and Feasts Homilies for May 2013 Jesus Ascends into Heaven 6th Sunday of Easter—May 5, 2013 Not as the World Gives Purpose: This Sunday’s Gospel captures the heart of the...
View ArticleExistence as Persons In and Through Others
The human family is the relational image of the relational Trinity, in which each divine person is distinct from the other while eternally one with the other in communion, community, and communication....
View ArticleCommunion, Community, and Communication
The Gospel summons us to authentic human development in communion, community, and communication under the sovereignty of God’s love. Our Christian conversion is both an event and a lifelong process of...
View ArticleFaith Needs Philosophy: A Primer on the Relationship between Reason and...
The great philosophers that preceded the Judeo-Christian Revelation demonstrated many of the truths about God and the faith that are affirmed in Scripture, and are what St. Thomas calls the preambles...
View ArticleTrue, Virginal Wife of Joseph
Recently, a holy, married couple made the following claim regarding the central place of sexual intercourse in sacramental marriage, expressed as a personal insight, gained over the course of more than...
View ArticleThe Holy Spirit and the Contemporary Reform of the Catholic Church
Status Quaestionis Ecclesia semper reformanda est (The Church is always to be reformed). This phrase originated in the Nadere Reformatiae of the Dutch Reform during the 1600s, and first appeared in the...
View ArticleBreaking Free of Our Metaphysical Winter - On Why Christians Must Study...
On Why Christians Must Study Philosophy In diagnosing the philosophical mentality of modernity, the Catholic novelist-physician-philosopher, Walker Percy, once wrote the following: The distinction...
View ArticleIn Processu - Seeking holiness by living in intimate and unceasing union with...
Seeking holiness by living in intimate and unceasing union with the Trinity Spiritual formation…should be conducted in such a way that the students may learn to livein intimate and unceasing union with...
View ArticleOrthodoxy and Doxology
Orthodoxy is both right praise and right teaching. Orthodox understanding of, and adoration of, the Blessed Trinity is the most critical component of our unity in Christ. St. Paul’s letter to the...
View ArticleReflections on the Indissolubility of Marriage and the Trinity
The source of our holiness as Christians is rooted in the revelation of God as Trinity with an interior life of total reciprocal, self-giving love between unique, distinct Persons who are, together,...
View ArticleOur Church and Vision
St. John affirms the mystery which is at the heart of our Christian faith: the “love which the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called God’s children” (1 Jn 3:1), the love that takes flesh in...
View ArticleLife with God
God cannot exist in any place or at any time, though God is present to anything in any place, and the proposition that God exists will be true at any time that it is uttered or conceived. Thus...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Four Aspects of Dogma According to Bernard Lonergan in The...
Introduction As a professor of theology, and as academic dean of a seminary, I feel it’s important to lay a solid foundation for the student who is beginning his study of theology. In my introductory...
View ArticleIs the Trinity a Mysterious Contradiction or a Rational Mystery?
Introduction Consider how central the Trinity is to our faith. We invoke the Trinity at the start and end of every Mass when we make the Sign of the Cross; those of us who pray the Rosary or the Divine...
View ArticleThe Trinitarian Theology of the Eucharist according to St. Catherine of Siena
A little over fifty years ago, the Second Vatican Council declared the Eucharist “the source and summit of the Christian life.” Prior to this Council, in 1902, Pope Leo XIII described the Eucharist as...
View ArticleOn the Lord’s Prayer
When the dawn appears, When the light grows, When midday burns, When has ceased The holy light, When the clear night comes; I sing your praises, O Father, Healer of hearts, Healer of bodies, Giver of...
View ArticleA Contribution of Madonna House to Synodality
The present article was occasioned by reading Adam DeVille’s recent book, Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power (Angelico Press) (NIH). He sees one of the...
View ArticleQuestions Answered – September 2021
Intinction With Unconsecrated Hosts? Question: Is it an egregious (sin) matter, if a priest does intinction of unconsecrated hosts with consecrated Precious Blood while distributing Holy Communion?...
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