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Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including AmericaCommonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).

Articles:

Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)

Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)

Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)

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A supermoon is seen above a cross on a church in Jerusalem Sept. 9 (CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters).
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
The cross was, basically, state-sponsored terrorism, and it did indeed terrify people.
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Matt Emerson
Pope Francis 39 s Sunday Angelus address on the Transfiguration offered these hopeful words Jesus rsquo way always leads us to happiness do not forget this Jesus rsquo way always leads to happiness There will always be a cross and trials in the midst but in the end it always leads to happin
Larry Rodwell receives ashes from Father Paul Bonacci during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Pius X Church in Rochester, N.Y., Feb. 18. Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent. (CNS photo/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
What is your Lenten resolution or undertaking Are you giving something up or taking something on Does it involve food or drink Are you making any particularly elaborate efforts to give alms pray and fast nbsp I would appreciate reader input I feel as though my Lenten promises are too routine
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Matt Emerson
Like Jesus, priests and religious must be the first to feel the obstacles to faith.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Christ's 40 days in the wilderness can raise more questions than it answers.
 Oliver Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
I found something very moving and even Ignatian in a reflection from Oliver Sacks composed as an anticipatory look back on his life spurred on by news of metastatic cancer An excerpt I have been increasingly conscious for the last 10 years or so of deaths among my contemporaries My generation
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Enjoy this list of web sites, books, online retreats and more.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Professors John T McGreevy and Gregory Crawford chairs of the Core Curriculum Review Committee at the University of Notre Dame have published a letter in The Observer Notre Dame 39 s campus newspaper explaining the process underway for reviewing the University 39 s core curriculum The letter
Moses and the Burning Bush by Arnold Friberg
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
While reading Carey Walsh 39 s Chasing Mystery nbsp Walsh is a professor of theology at Villanova University I came across this exposition of Moses 39 encounter with the burning bush which I found to be really illuminating Moses noticed something out of the ordinary the subtlety of the branc
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Adapting top-down church teaching for the interactive Internet age