Scripture
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

How Should We Approach Scripture?

“Atheists and heretics keep resurrecting the anti-Semitic heresy of Marcion and Mani:  that the God of the Old Testament is a radically different God than

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Scripture
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Are You For or Against the Cross?

The greatest Shame of Palm Sunday is that they celebrated Christ as though He came to save them from their political and temporal problems. Entirely

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Of Things Unseen

Our first reading is such a great scene from the life of Abraham, but we often picture it wrongly. God promises him that he will

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Columnists
Erin Cain

The Long Night

And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see. —Isaiah 29:18 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should

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Married Life
Fr. Joseph Gill

Marriage: A Match Made In Heaven

Many years ago when I was teaching a group of middle schoolers about the Sacrament of Matrimony, I invited a couple who had been married

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Get Your Attention

It’s amazing how sometimes we are blessed with an insight into the Heart of God. I had such an experience this past summer. I was

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Humility

The great American Catholic laywoman of the twentieth century, Dorothy Day, was well-known for her love for the poor. She opened up her home to

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Scripture
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

A Theological Reflection On Unity

This is a theological reflection on some principles found in our first reading this Sunday. It is a more theologically worded reflection than my homily

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Prayer
Christina M. Sorrentino

Love Amidst the Thorns

“Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Prophets of the New Convenant

It takes a lot of guts to tell the Pope that he’s wrong. Especially if you’re a humble Dominican nun in the 1300s. You see,

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Scripture
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

The Mission of Evangelization

The Church’s mission to evangelize should not ever be conflated with colonialism.  Evangelization, according to the Church is a spiritual movement that can embrace the

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Columnists
Fr. Joseph Gill

Indwelling Trinity

When Cardinal Timothy Dolan was a young priest, he was in charge of running an RCIA program for adults who wanted to convert and become

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Fear of the Lord

We may know St. Bernard as a breed of dog, but there actually is a Saint named Bernard of Menthon – and he is the

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Awesome!

Awesome! That’s a word that, if you’re of a certain generation, gets tossed around a lot. That Frisbee game was awesome. Pizza is awesome. The

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Mercy and Killing
Fr. Christopher Pietraszko

Called to Repentance

A church which seeks its own survival, it would seem to me, is not living by it’s actual mission. Christ taught us that each follower

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Feasts
Fr. Joseph Gill

Fruit of Holiness

“The end of all things is at hand” – that’s how our readings started off today, from the Apostle Peter. Yes, the end of school

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