Pope Leo’s visit this year to Africa made the news for many reasons, but my social media blossomed with one image from his trip: the unfamiliar (to me) but magnetic image of Our Lady of Bisila, Mother and Patroness of Equatorial Guinea.
Virgin Mary
Posted inFaith and Reason
How bad theology about God distorts our understanding of Mary
When we underemphasize the humanity of Christ or overemphasize the masculinity of God, other dimensions are pushed aside. Those repressed elements seek an outlet—and in the Catholic tradition, that outlet has often been found in Mary.
Posted inPoetry
At the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C.
She is the quickening, the leap of faith;
she the tabernacle, mother of the world.
Posted inFaith in Focus
The mystery of Epiphany—and the miracle of human consciousness
What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human consciousness? This is a mystery I never expect to elucidate.
Posted inExplainer
Why is New Year’s Day a holy day of obligation?
Q: If the church’s new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) a holy day of obligation? A: You are correct that the church’s liturgical new year usually begins in late November with the first Sunday of Advent, and you are likewise correct that […]
Posted inThe Good Word
How to become God’s dream for you
A Homily for the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inFaith in Focus
Mary is every mother who has lost a child
No matter how a mother loses a child, the mourning must feel like an abyss. Mary’s child is every child who has died too soon.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Mary’s death in Christian art: Remembering her as more than a mother
When we honor Mary the mother, the moon who shines by the light of her son, we should also remember that her soul shone with its own light, too.
Posted inThe Good Word
The Virgin of Guadalupe is still our mother
A Homily for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inThe Good Word
The Christmas carol verse that perfectly explains the Immaculate Conception
A Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. by Father Terrance Klein