‘Exodus 90’ is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.
Terence Sweeney
Terence Sweeney is a professor in the Honors Program at Villanova University.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A pro-life examen for Catholic colleges
Pro-lifers need to seriously consider what defeats at the ballot box mean—and ask themselves why recent legal successes have not translated into democratic successes.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The Eucharistic Revival is missing something: the Blood of Christ
There is much to hope for in the U.S. bishops’ project of local and national revitalization. But there cannot be a full-fledged eucharistic revival without a precious blood revival.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The underlying philosophy of Black Lives Matter
Vincent Lloyd’s ‘Black Dignity’ is is a profound challenge to anyone who takes seriously the struggle for human dignity, antiracism and the work of dismantling white supremacy.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Americans care more about money than marriage, children and country. Can Catholic education change that?
These trends should prompt an examen among Catholic educators. Do our schools lead people to drift from religion to money, from community engagement to private enrichment?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The spirituality of sacristans: What this often overlooked role has to teach the church
Our task as sacristans is to attend to small acts of care in a world that is too often inattentive and careless.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Understanding Pope Francis’ teaching about the spiritual value of time
Too many of us are attracted to a “spatial” life because we can control spaces and stop them from changing. But time, even when managed, is always beyond our control. In his new book, James K. A. Smith seeks to reorient us to the reality of human life as temporal.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Vatican II didn’t fail. It’s just getting started.
We experience now a church where the laity matter—where, for example, a New York Times columnist without any church title can have a voice.
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It’s time to bring back receiving Communion from the chalice
After two years without it, I fear we are forgetting what is so precious about Christ’s blood and the reception of Communion in both forms.
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Review: What can the writers of the Christian left tell us about the future?
If contemplation and criticism can lead to imitation, then writing about the literary Christian left of the last century might help establish a literary Christian left for this century.