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by bcadmin | Oct 25, 2022 | Athanasius of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, Books, Church Life Journal, Clement of Alexandria, Creation, David Bentley Hart, Features, First Vatican Council, Fr. James Dominic Rooney, God, News, Salvation, universalism | 0 |
I commend to you Fr. James Dominic Rooney’s excellent recent Church Life Journal article “The Incoherencies of Hard Universalism.” It is directed primarily at David Bentley Hart’s defense of universalism in his book That All Shall Be Saved, of […]…
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Around five and a half years ago, I began learning how to draw. I had always been convinced that I couldn’t draw, and the reasons for never attempting it are too complicated to go into here. But, pregnant and mostly bedridden with hyperemesis gravidarum, I needed something to do that would soothe my suffering heart. […]
Perhaps one of the most beautiful songs ever performed is Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” He recorded it during a time of great turmoil in this country, 1967, and the recording company’s president suppressed it in the United States, yet it reached the number one spot on the charts in England, topping them for […]
by bcadmin | Jun 9, 2022 | Creation, God, Into the Deep, News, Practicing Catholic, The Outdoors | 0 |
Jen Messing said her childhood was filled with time outdoors, so she grew up loving it.
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Never should we forget our destiny and our dignity that flow from God’s loving kindness and abundant mercy. You were created in the image and likeness of God. Then, as a result of God’s infinite bounty, He endowed you with one of the greatest gifts: the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. From this you entered into […]
by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | Adam Fitzpatrick, Climate change, Commentary, Creation, Creation care, Earth Day, Gaudium et spes, Global warming, Laudato Si, Laudato Si Action Plan, News, Social Justice | 0 |
As the first cohort for the Laudato Si’ Action Platform started on Earth Day, April 22, we are at a time as a Catholic Church where we have to embrace the hopes and fears of our young people with honesty and bravery, or risk losing them forever.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Creation, Essay, Eucharist, Features, Jesus Christ, man and woman, Marriage, matrimony, News, nuptial mystery, Sacraments | 0 |
Quoting the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism begins its reflections on the Sacrament of Matrimony in this manner: The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2021 | Abide with Me, Call to Holiness, Creation, death, Divine Providence, Featured, God, God's Love, Heaven, human dignity, Into the Deep, life, News, Salvation, September 11th, time | 0 |
“Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent” (Luke 24:29). Just yesterday we remembered the victims of September 11, 2001 in our prayers as we marked the twentieth anniversary of that tragic day. That is a day that I pray we ne…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 9, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Creation, dignity, Ephesians, Featured, Gratitude, human dignity, Humility, Identity, Living the Faith, Magnificat, News, Paul, pride | 0 |
“There’s a danger of two extremes in misunderstanding our identity that can be remedied by reflecting on this passage from Paul.” The second reading this Sunday is an extraordinary prayer of praise that will likely get missed by most congre…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 27, 2021 | Commentary, Creation, Faith, grace, lead, News, On Spirituality | 0 |
Creation was like a beautiful palace: ornate, structured, and beautiful. The fall was like a grenade being thrown into the palace, causing chaos and disorder.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2021 | Creation, Ezekiel, Frank Sheed, Jehoiachin, Jesus Christ, Nebuchadnezzar, News, parables, St. Augustine, St. Paul, St. Teresa of Jesus, The Dispatch, Theology and Sanity | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, June 17, 2018 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 26, 2021 | Caring for Creation, Creation, From the Pope, Global grassroots movement, Laudato Si, News, Picks | 0 |
To help lead the world’s Catholics along a journey of intensified action in caring for creation, Pope Francis asked everyone to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.
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