Category Archives: Theologizing Faith

Originally at: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/dialogue-prices-values by Dr. James Jacobs As I walked down the street, I noticed in the window of a shop a decal advertising the so-called “Human Rights Campaign,” the organization agitating for a redefinition of marriage to include homosexual unions. … Continue reading →

Originally at: http://www.news.va/en/news/fr-cantalamessa-gives-his-fourth-lenten-sermon-in (Vatican Radio) On Friday morning the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Franciscan Father Raniero Cantalamessa gave his fourth Lenten sermon in the Mater Redemptoris chapel in the Vatican. Here is the full text of his reflections, entitled ‘East … Continue reading →

Originally at: http://www.strangenotions.com/does-religion-really-have-a-smart-people-problem/ by Fr. Robert Barron Daniel Dennett, one of the “four horsemen” of contemporary atheism, proposed in 2003 that those who espouse a naturalist, atheist worldview should call themselves “the brights,” thereby distinguishing themselves rather clearly from the dim … Continue reading →

Originally at: http://orthodoxyandheterodoxy.org/2014/09/08/show-us-the-father-how-the-father-may-or-may-not-be-depicted-in-orthodox-iconography/ by Eric Jobe Read through any collection of Gary Larson’s The Far Side cartoons, and you will doubtless come across a cartoon image of God as an old man, usually gigantic in proportion and surrounded by the clouds of “heaven.”  This … Continue reading →

Long, but worth the read… Originally at: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/01/06/4158425.htm The case can be made that a flourishing human life must show seven principal virtues. The case in favour of four of them – the “pagan” or “aristocratic” or “political” virtues of courage, … Continue reading →

Originally at: http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/01/02/god-not-scientific-hypothesis/ by Francis J. Beckwith Christmas Day 2014, the Wall Street Journal, published an essay by the award-winning Evangelical author, Eric Metaxas: “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God.” He begins by claiming that in the recent past people accepted … Continue reading →

Originally at: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-mueller-attacks-on-marriage-are-a-suicide-of-humanity#ixzz3JbMFKag1 by  EDWARD PENTIN The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was the main sponsor of the three-day international and interreligious Humanum colloquium on the complementarity of man and woman in marriage. The congregation’s prefect, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, … Continue reading →

Originally at: http://americamagazine.org/issue/everyone%E2%80%99s-vocation by Russell Shaw The Edge of Sadness, the elegiac successor to his wildly successful novelThe Last Hurrah, Edwin O’Connor places these words about the priesthood and lay clericalism in the mouth of the story’s priest-narrator: “Probably in no other … Continue reading →