I am posting this from my trusty desk in my home office. I’m still feeling a bit groggy after the past few days, but I am here, and I’m feeling better, and that’s the most important part. If you’ve followed my social media over the last couple of days, most of this won’t...
Our friends at Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life are hosting “The Francis Factor at Ten Years” on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, from 5:30 to 7 P.M. Eastern time. This dialogue will feature Catholic leaders Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Sr. Norma Pimentel, M.J., E.J. Dionne, Helen Alvaré, and Georgetown President...
Rachel Amiri and I have been talking about NFP and NFP culture for several years now. Before we started recording, she reminded me that we first met when we were arguing with each other in NFP groups on Facebook (not my best moments, lol). For years I felt isolated and shameful when I...
A state funeral is a most impressive ceremony. We saw this recently with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. A nation faces its own mortality in the death of a leader. The fragility of life is enfolded in the power of the state to remind the people at the same time of both...
A reflection on the readings for the First Sunday of Lent, February 26, 2023. At this year’s meeting of diocesan vocation directors from around the US, I attended a conference on teaching young men to discern whether they have a vocation to the priesthood. The speaker was a priest I know very well,...
God’s passionate love for his people—for humanity—is at the same time a forgiving love. It is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice. Here Christians can see a dim prefigurement of the mystery of the Cross: so great is God’s love for man that by becoming man...
This is the first installment of the three-part essay “Integrating Philosophical Paradigms toward Theological Unity” by Deacon Tracy Jamison, OCDS, PhD. Click here for the introduction. Click here for part 2. Two distinct philosophical paradigms that are co-essential to natural human understanding are: 1) the dogmatic order of first principles and scientific demonstration,...
[Editor’s note: Beginning tomorrow and continuing on subsequent Fridays, we will publish Deacon Tracy Jamison’s article, “Integrating Philosophical Paradigms toward Theological Unity,” in three installments. In this essay, Deacon Jamison identifies two different philosophical approaches that underlie much of the division in the Catholic Church today: an approach that prioritizes first principles and objective...
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Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of our Lenten journey, when we enter into the solemn season of Lent and arm ourselves with the transformative practices of fasting, prayer and almsgiving in order to be one with our Lord Jesus in the redemptive mission of the Church. Through fasting and penance over the course...
Ash Wednesday 2023 readings. Think about this for a minute. An entire people around the globe sets aside 40 days each year to live differently than they do the other 325 days. If we look at this merely as a social phenomenon, it is a rather extraordinary thing. An entire people sets aside...
Today at noon in Rome, the Vatican Press Office published a rescript confirming that dispensations from the July 16, 2021, motu proprio Traditionis Custodes are reserved to the Apostolic See. The document, published in Italian and signed by Cardinal Arthur Roche, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of...
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