Here’s what you need to know about “Dilexit nos,” the new encyclical from Pope Francis about the Sacred Heart.
Jesus Christ
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
‘If we don’t get Jesus right, we won’t get the church right’: The life and teaching of Gerald O’Collins, S.J.
Gerald O’Collins, S.J., the Australian Jesuit theologian who died last week, was a prominent writer in Christology, ecclesiology, spirituality and more in an academic career that spanned seven decades.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
The historical Jesus is worth our study—but don’t expect it to solve all our theological questions
In this 1971 article, the late theologian Gerald O’Collins, S.J., treats the search for the “historical Jesus”—and its potential shortcomings and pitfalls.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
‘They’ aren’t the hypocrites. We are.
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Seeking and finding God at the Eucharistic Congress—despite my misgivings
Every light in the stadium converged upon the monstrance, all while the congregation was led in praise and worship, singing: “I want more of you God…. No place I’d rather be than here in your love.”
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Bishop Flores: The Eucharist is the final word and action of Jesus
The Eucharist is the final word and action of Jesus before he enters into his Passion. This set of just a few words and visible actions frames the meaning and intent of the great sign that is his whole life, culminating in his dying and rising. It is more than this, though.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Do we believe Christ is big enough for all of us?
A Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein
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Gerhard Lohfink on Jesus, discipleship and the life of faith
Gerhard Lohfink, who died last week in his native Germany at the age of 89, leaves behind an impressive legacy of faith-informed scholarship on the New Testament and Christian discipleship.
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Remembering Gerhard Lohfink, who wrote the best book on Jesus I’ve ever read
Father Lohfink’s book, ‘Jesus of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who He Was,’ is a model of clarity, scholarship, insight, belief and, best of all, surprises, Father James Martin writes.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Christianity is a religion of the body. The resurrection makes that clear.
A meditation for Easter