As the Church enters Lent 2022, it is well to reflect on and pray over the Catholic understanding that doctrine is light, powerful, and liberating, which some parts of the world Church seem to have forgotten. Continue Reading »
In the weakness of the fast, we confess the Passion of God is stronger than all human action. In Lenten silence, we affirm the confidence of the silent Savior, assured that God will finish all his words. Continue Reading »
We are a people marked by death—not death as a power that holds sway over us, but rather the liberating death of Christ on the cross. Continue Reading »
As his latest album demonstrates, a subset of Sting’s songs reverberates with the legacy of an urban English Catholic childhood of the 1950s and ’60s. Continue Reading »
With the United Methodist Church dividing over same-sex marriage, Methodists must search to ground their tradition in a return to Wesleyan catholicity. Continue Reading »
Developing a taste for prayer is probably the first and foremost battle of our age, as Cardinal Sarah teaches. Continue Reading »
Fr. Timothy J. Cusick joins R. R. Reno for a discussion of the importance of the evangelical counsels. Continue Reading »
Negative world ministry requires pastors with Pauline toughness—both mental and emotional—as well as new approaches to structuring ministry. Continue Reading »
While Hume can teach us a thing or two about intellectual modesty, the content of his philosophy leaves readers with a vacuum of meaning. Continue Reading »
After two centuries in which religiosity has been widely seen as the “opiate of the masses,” it’s time to turn the screws on the comfortably agnostic and atheist. Continue Reading »
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