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I received an email recently from a woman from Spain, who had questions about the practice of Halloween here in… Read More »Sacrum et saeculum: Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween?

The Church’s selection of Mass readings is a subtle but marvelous way in which she teaches us to understand the… Read More »The Harmonious Unity of Scripture

The image used throughout today’s Scripture readings is a familiar one: Christ as the Good Shepherd. This beautiful image for… Read More »Led by Truth

As some of you may know, one of my favorite passages in the Catechism is at the very beginning. In… Read More »Infinite Freedom and Perfect Happiness

Last month the Church celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi, or the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood… Read More »A Eucharistic Revival

When I was in college, I spent a summer semester studying in Germany. With my Eurorail Pass, I was able… Read More »The Church as Apostolic

This week, as our nation celebrates Independence Day, we remember with gratitude the freedoms that we enjoy in our country.… Read More »A New Birth of Freedom

“One cannot do theology with a ‘no’ in front of them,” the pope said on his return flight from his… Read More »Freedom Ordered to the Good: On the positivity of negation

In the beginning was the Word. Just one. Infinite, perfect. All-encompassing, all-embracing, all-generating. Through this Word the Father knows Himself… Read More »De Verbo et Verbis