Wherever the church has flourished, it is because men and women gave their lives as witness to a love that is stronger than death. Father Alvan I. Amadi writes that the saints of North America are proof of the church’s vitality.
Saints
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
On All Saints day, we are reminded of our true home
What began here on earth is lost, mostly without a trace. But who looks for the seed that died when the mighty tree raises its leafed branches to the sky?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
James K. A. Smith takes 21st-century readers on pilgrimage with St. Augustine
James K. A. Smith’s new book seems to have been written largely with disaffected evangelicals in mind, those who have “been there, done that and left the stupid Christian T-Shirt at home.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What Theodore Hesburgh missed about Catholic universities
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh’s somewhat idiosyncratic relation to St. John Henry Newman’s capacious mind on Catholic higher education.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Modern saint-making reflects contemporary Catholic identity
As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.
Posted inFaith, Your Take
If you could canonize anyone, living or dead, Catholic or not, who would it be?
Listeners of Jesuitical offer their own answer to the podcast’s recurring question.
Posted inFaith, Features
What the Day of the Dead can teach us about life
Darkness and light are but one, the psalmist tells us. Our lives are filled with both. Sugar and skulls. Flowers and dust. Love and loss. You cannot embrace one without allowing the other.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Sainthood picks up the pace under recent popes
John Paul II canonized more saints (482) than the popes from the previous 500 years combined, and Pope Francis is more than keeping up.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A convert’s journey with St. John Henry Newman
Like Newman, I am a convert to Roman Catholicism, but it is the way Newman converted that is most important to me.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Only in New York, a fight over a statue of Mother Cabrini
Noting that Mother Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized by the Catholic Church, Gov. Cuomo added, in perhaps a dig at political rival New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, “She is certainly deserving of a statue.”