Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks It is titled Evangelicals Divided and concerns recent theological fissures breaks or tensions - I cannot decide amongst these terms - concerning the role of Scr

One of the most fascinating and startling things regarding the teaching on the Church in Matthew 18 the Ecclesial Discourse is how much of it focuses on the nature of Christian leadership as modeled on the child and the treatment of children by the apostles called disciples by Matthew Chapter

I had taken note a few days ago of a Commonweal Blog post on a new site dedicated to and simply called Catholic Moral Theology I was poking around at the site and find it both congenial and inviting Let me excerpt their own statement of mission We are a group of North American Catholic moral t

The late Pope John Paul II meditated on the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Redemptoris Mater On nbsp the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life of the Pilgrim Church This excerpt is taken from paragraph 14 Mary s faith can also be compared to that of Abraham whom St Paul calls our fathe

The End of the World It rsquo s always on people rsquo s minds About every year and a half in our Theology dept rsquo s informal evening discussions for undergraduates called Theology Night Live the topic is the apocalypse I gave it again about two weeks ago The students come in droves admit

I think I might meander in a couple of directions today This is a busy time of year as we are coming to Spring Break at UST and I thought I might go back through our blog archives and re-post my last St Patrick s day blog post to save myself some time nbsp There was a minor problem I discovered

My New Testament students have asked me on a number of occasions over the years about the ashes placed upon the forehead on Ash Wednesday They have not asked about the origin of the tradition or even its meaning as such what they have asked about is quite interesting and perfectly relevant for the

It rsquo s not a bad way to sell a book put ldquo secret rdquo in the title somewhere And in light of Dan Brown rsquo s success in selling books which are historical and theological nonsense but which claim to unlock age-old secrets why not use it in the title of a book that makes mostly hist

It rsquo s not a bad way to sell a book put ldquo secret rdquo in the title somewhere And in light of Dan Brown rsquo s success in selling books which are historical and theological nonsense but which claim to unlock age-old secrets why not use it in the title of a book that makes mostly hist

It rsquo s not a bad way to sell a book put ldquo secret rdquo in the title somewhere And in light of Dan Brown rsquo s success in selling books which are historical and theological nonsense but which claim to unlock age-old secrets why not use it in the title of a book that makes mostly hist