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Michael Lee on liberation theology
In the above video, U.S. Catholic Magazine asks Fordham professor Michael Lee five questions on liberation theology. The full interview with Lee on liberation theology today can be found here. Lee’s...
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A Story Alive after Death
My daughter Vivian Marie was born six months ago today and left this world after a mere fifteen hours of life. Despite her departure, her story has continued. It lives on and receives a telling in our...
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Was Jesus Raped?: David Tombs on Sexual Violence and the Crucifixion
Although the passion narratives of our Gospels are well known to us and bring all sorts of images to mind, they are in fact quite sketchy overall. We fill in each of the four narratives in various...
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A Glimpse of the Resurrection During the Church’s Way of the Cross
This past Holy Week and subsequent celebration of Easter was a rough one for me this year. Too many realities converged which made it impossible to let the Triduum go by as usual. First, there is my...
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Is the Bible a Perverse Book?
My post on what I called a perverse prayer on Facebook prompted some questions about the possibility of similar perversity found in Sacred Scripture. In another forum, I have faced accusations of...
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The Significance of Saying that God Commanded Genocide
Violence is no stranger to the Christian story, but we find it on the side the antagonist rather than the protagonist. Unlike heroes in most mythical tales of good versus evil, Christ does not conquer...
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Glorifying Enemy Casualties
Has the Medal of Honor been feminized because it hasn’t been awarded lately for killing the enemy? Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association answers in the affirmative, lamenting that the medal...
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Wisdom’s Fire, Radiant and Unfading. Part X: The Life, Death and Resurrection...
Part IX In the glorious Trinity, love shines forth: The Father gives his all to the Son And the Spirit henceforth Returns that love to the uncreated Origin. The cross reveals the self-sacrifice of...
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Why Did Jesus Have to Rise?
Brett Salkeld has posted very thoughtful reflection on atonement here and here. At the risk of initiating a thread that Brett might himself have started, I’m offering these thoughts both in support of...
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When Theologians Defend Genocide and Infanticide
Greta Christina is right to be aghast at theologian William Lane Craig’s moral defense of divinely commanded infanticide, but wrong to see his defense as a reason why religion is so messed up. It’s...
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A Study Of “On The Character of Men And the Virtuous Life”: Part XXXVIII.
Introduction and Part II “Through the love of God our Creator, there are many ways that bring men to salvation, converting their souls and leading them up to heaven. For men’s souls are rewarded for...
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The God-Bearer Got It
In all these Marian feasts that are a part of the Catholic faith I’ve embraced, I’ve participated with a kind of curious fascination during the past couple of years, trying to get my mind around it all...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Immaculate Conception
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Holy Day of Obligation for us. I didn’t know that St. Catherine Laboure who was shown the image on the left, known as the Miraculous Medal, was a Daughter of...
View ArticleOn Goat-Herders, Resurrections and Inconclusive Arguments
One of the biggest problems with the intellectual stance of the angry atheist-materialists is their presumption that anyone who disagrees with them is necessarily stupid. And, as we are stupid people,...
View ArticleRaising the specter of liberation theology
Chris Blosser responded to Vox Nova’s Henry Karlson’s series which gives a positive spin on “immanentizing the eschaton” (see part one here) with a post that issues a warning against too quickly...
View ArticleMichael Lee on liberation theology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnlWxa15vQ8&feature=player_embedded In the above video, U.S. Catholic Magazine asks Fordham professor Michael Lee five questions on liberation theology. The full...
View ArticleWas Jesus Raped?: David Tombs on Sexual Violence and the Crucifixion
Although the passion narratives of our Gospels are well known to us and bring all sorts of images to mind, they are in fact quite sketchy overall. We fill in each of the four narratives in various...
View ArticleA Glimpse of the Resurrection During the Church’s Way of the Cross
This past Holy Week and subsequent celebration of Easter was a rough one for me this year. Too many realities converged which made it impossible to let the Triduum go by as usual. First, there is my...
View ArticleWisdom’s Fire, Radiant and Unfading. Part X: The Life, Death and Resurrection...
Part IX In the glorious Trinity, love shines forth: The Father gives his all to the Son And the Spirit henceforth Returns that love to the uncreated Origin. The cross reveals the self-sacrifice of...
View ArticleWhy Did Jesus Have to Rise?
Brett Salkeld has posted very thoughtful reflection on atonement here and here. At the risk of initiating a thread that Brett might himself have started, I’m offering these thoughts both in support of...
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