Way Back Wednesday: Parish Transitions, Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints By Eugene R. Schlesinger The first time I set foot inside my parish was to clean it. Over the course of the pandemic, my family and I went through any number of configurations for managing our liturgical ... Read More...
The Problems of Hagiography By Zachary Guiliano The Christian Church has no shortage of saints. This may come as some surprise to many, who associate the Church primarily with its views on the universality of sin. “All have sinned and ... Read More...
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 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 reduced to a predictable quasi-aesthetic ideal — “s... Read More...
St. John Henry Newman, a Shared Legacy The canonization of John Henry Newman this year provides an opportunity for Anglicans to look back on his legacy in our own church. Newman was a priest of the Church of England before he was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. In many ways, his contribution to both Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism is a legacy shared between the traditions.
Is Mary of Magdala the Patron Saint of Alcoholics? For those who are alcoholics and for their families, rum and all its siblings are truly “demons” which take over the minds, consciences, and very lives of those they possess.
We Believe: The Church Makes the Saints I have been carried by the communal faith of the Church when my heart has been cold or numb.
Saints with a Capital S Our heroes are the saints — from the well-known, like St. Mary the Virgin or St. Francis, to the more obscure, like St. Sebastian or St. Lucy.
‘Given to the Glory of God’: Dedicatory Plaques and the Communion of Saints We have all received the faith from those who’ve gone before, and we are all charged with the sacred trust of passing it along, entire and intact, to those who will come after us.
