Terence Sweeney

Liguori helps us practice being devout even if we rarely are. Continue Reading »

Why love this world? Because it was in this world that we fell in love with God and it is only in this time that we can help other hearts turn to God. Continue Reading »

Perhaps the new evangelization begins with such small gestures as the ringing of church bells.  Continue Reading »

The Christian task is to imbue Ordinary Time with the love we saw in the stable—to make it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary ways of all. Continue Reading »

J. Judd Owen’s Making Religion Safe for Democracy challenges both secular and religious thinkers. As Owen argues, the ascendant form of philosophical liberalism, with its tenuous claims to be a space without any religious commitments, is “not well equipped to confront a world of resurgent religion, particularly religion that is uneasy with or rejects liberal democratic principles.”