St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Neil Dhingra January 4, 2021 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Roman Catholic Church By Neil Dhingra Famously, Dorothy Day once said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” The writer Robert Ellsberg, who had recorded that line, noted that Day did not want to be r... Read More...
The Blood and the Name Timothy O'Malley January 1, 2021 Commentary, Liturgy, Roman Catholic Church By Timothy P. O’Malley On the eighth day after his birth, before receiving the “name above all names” (Phil. 2:9), Jesus was circumcised. The temptation is to spiritualize this first shedding of blood by ... Read More...
De-Normalizing the New Normal Timothy O'Malley December 3, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Roman Catholic Church By Timothy P. O’Malley When the nation “shut down” in March of 2020, the phrase “the new normal” assumed a degree of prominence in public discourse. The new normal meant working from home (at least for those... Read More...
Being Distracted by the Right Things Sam Keyes November 27, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, Roman Catholic Church By Sam Keyes Three times now in an introductory course on sacraments and liturgy, I’ve asked students to reflect on a playlist of Church music that I assembled for them. To do such a thing at all challenges ... Read More...
Five Tips on Voting Like a Nonbeliever Sam Keyes October 27, 2020 Commentary, Ethics, Roman Catholic Church By Sam Keyes Many Christians these days seem to spend a lot of energy figuring out how to properly separate or combine their faith from their politics. Which presidential candidate is more messianic? Which c... Read More...
The Dangerous Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Neil Dhingra September 29, 2020 Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Neil Dhingra In her Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, the St. John’s College tutor Zena Hitz presents an engagingly diverse (and often imprisoned) set of thinkers: Dorothy Day... Read More...
The Eighth Commandment: Theft for a Good Cause? Neil Dhingra September 14, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church, Ten Commandments Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Neil Dhingra In Alex Gibney’s The Inventor, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the turtlenecked and deep-voiced founder and erstwhile CEO of Theranos, now i... Read More...
Hope as the World Is Ending Jonathan Mitchican July 15, 2020 Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Jonathan Mitchican Life in the time of coronavirus is hard.The battle that the human race now wages against this pandemic is beyond anything known in our lifetime. Many people have described it as apocaly... Read More...
