Readings: • Jer 31:7-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 5:1-6 • Mk 10:46-52 “In the beginning,” states Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, “God made human nature one […]
Editor’s note: The following is the concluding chapter (pp. 457-468) from the recently published book Jesus Christ, Scandal of Particularity: Vatican II, a Catholic Theology of Religions, Justification, and Truth (En Route Books and Media, […]
On August 22nd, we celebrate the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Established by Pope Pius XII in 1954, this feast illustrates the fact that not only is Mary queen of heaven […]
Johathan Liedl, a reporter with The National Catholic Register, has written a very important article on one of the more influential theologians of the upcoming Synod on synodality in October. The article got some traction […]
On the Readings for April 8, 2018, Second Sunday of Easter and Sunday of Divine Mercy […]
Readings: • Isa 55:10-11 • Psa 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 • Rom 8:18-23 • Matt 13:1-23 The well-known parable of the seed and the sower is the first of seven parables in Matthew 13. These […]
Readings: Ex 19:2-6a Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5 Rom 5:6-11 Mt 9:36—10:8 One of the descriptions of the Church emphasized in the documents of the Second Vatican Council is “the people of God.” The Dogmatic Constitution […]
Vatican (kath.net) With the last plenary assembly, the negotiations and democratic votes of the so-called “Synodal Way” have been concluded. The majority vote decisions are now to be implemented. However, the resolutions do not meet […]
In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism” — the overheated theory of papal supremacy that reduced local bishops to branch managers who simply […]
Mr. Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” (mazel tov!) and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number of Gen Z Catholics when he writes on the […]
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