The Good Word

I am always worried when people go to the ldquo that rsquo s how Jesus did it rdquo arguments especially when Ned Flanders gets dissed in the process ldquo You don rsquo t think I should overturn your tables That rsquo s what Jesus did in the Temple rdquo ldquo Whoa I rsquo m sorry you don

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them they brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them and he sat on them A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road The crowds that went ahead of him and

My comments on Wednesday with respect to historical reality and ldquo deception rdquo in the Bible drove me back to some good friends books on interpretation of the Bible What I found disturbing in the original post on which I was commenting and in many of the comments which followed was this

ldquo For as the days of Noah were so will be the coming of the Son of Man For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away so too will be

The theme of renewal of new life runs throughout the readings for the Fifth Sunday of Lent More precisely resurrection from the dead runs through all of these readings This is the case even though the first reading Ezekiel 37 12-14 as does all of chapter 37 speaks literally of the whole house

Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks It is titled Evangelicals Divided and concerns recent theological fissures breaks or tensions – I cannot decide amongst these terms – concerning the role of Scr

One of the most fascinating and startling things regarding the teaching on the Church in Matthew 18 the Ecclesial Discourse is how much of it focuses on the nature of Christian leadership as modeled on the child and the treatment of children by the apostles called disciples by Matthew Chapter

I had taken note a few days ago of a Commonweal Blog post on a new site dedicated to and simply called Catholic Moral Theology I was poking around at the site and find it both congenial and inviting Let me excerpt their own statement of mission We are a group of North American Catholic moral t

The late Pope John Paul II meditated on the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Redemptoris Mater On nbsp the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life of the Pilgrim Church This excerpt is taken from paragraph 14 Mary s faith can also be compared to that of Abraham whom St Paul calls our fathe

The End of the World It rsquo s always on people rsquo s minds About every year and a half in our Theology dept rsquo s informal evening discussions for undergraduates called Theology Night Live the topic is the apocalypse I gave it again about two weeks ago The students come in droves admit