Can anyone adequately define what it means to be an alcoholic? Someone who regularly abuses alcohol is physically ill because of biological, even genetic, factors. And, like anyone suffering from a psychological pathology, an alcoholic’s free will is typically curtailed. Finally, as with any sinner, there’s probably no alcoholic who doesn’t bear some moral responsibility […]
Virgin Mary
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Mary, motherhood and the meaning of vulnerability
The vulnerability of the Virgin still dispels distortions that we would create about her Son. He is not a figure of myth nor the creation of dogma. He is a man born to a woman, living in poverty.
Posted inFaith, Features
Poet Mary Szybist: Whose version of Mary am I holding?
A poet reflects in the 2019 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize essay.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
The Scandal of Knock: God can transform any nowhere into somewhere
Father Matt Malone, S.J., reflects on God’s grace can grace can transform nowheres into somewheres, and nobodies into somebodies.
Posted inFaith, News
Britons return statue of the Virgin Mary to Argentina at Vatican
Pope Francis has appeared to wipe away tears during a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square for the return of a Virgin Mary statue from Britons to Argentina.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
‘The Translation of the House of Loreto’
You bet it takes a miracle to explain
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When and where trauma and theology meet
Karen O’Donnell writes her own trauma theology as a “survivor’s gift that is offered as both a comfort and a challenge.”
Posted inFaith, News
Texas bishop calls reported Marian apparitions in Fort Worth Diocese a ‘fabrication’
The bishop said the diocese had received “irrefutable evidence” showing that reported Marian appearances and messages from St. Mark Church in Argyle under the title “Mystical Rose — Our Lady of Argyle” are not true.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The Assumption of Mary tells us who we are meant to be
Doctrines and dogmas do not exist to provide esoteric data. Their purpose is always to tell us who we are, to proclaim who we can be in Christ.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A deadly crash on the Feast of the Assumption
The car flipped over 10 times. Maybe 15. I woke up to steel smashing against cement, over and over, over and over. Glass shattered and flew in my face and hair.