In conjunction with Fr William O Malley s article in the current issue of America we will be posting a few of his homilies to The Good Word this week Fr O Malley is a noted homilist and author who has taught high school students for over forty years You can read some of Fr O Malley s other h

I was able this past weekend to attend a conference at the Monsignor Jerome D Quinn Institute of Biblical Studies at the St Paul Seminary School of Divinity where I also spend a part of my working week The conference The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church The Catholic Seminary

You can tell that the earliest Christians were inspired and not just because Pentecost was about to fall upon them you can tell they were inspired because of their nicknames Some of these were given by Jesus himself Peter for Simon and Sons of Thunder for James and John jump immediately to m

At nbsp The End of the Modern World etc Joe Trabbic a philosopher at Ave Maria University nbsp posted on ldquo Aquinas and Modern Biblical Exegesis rdquo nbsp on May 25 2011 It has generated no comments on the site which is odd since it is a lively and helpful piece Thomas on Scriptur

One of the great beauties of the Church is the liturgical calendar and the eternal rhythms to which one becomes attuned One of the realities of writing with the Church rsquo s calendar is that soon you have written on almost every feast day It is a wonderful thing to turn one rsquo s mind to writi

We usually focus on the Visitation Luke 1 39-56 due to the extraordinary meeting not only between Elizabeth and Mary but between Jesus and John both still in the womb It is a nascent meeting of the key players in the culmination of salvation-history Yet it is also important to see this at the