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I have written here since 2010 on evangelization, parish life, Scripture, apologetics, and the moral life. These six are the best place to begin.
Go Home and Live as Missionary Disciples
If your faith feels humdrum, you may not have entered the mission yet. A talk to men on what that asks of you.
Formed By Distraction
Eliot described minds pulled from one distraction to the next. We now carry that in our pockets. What is it forming in us?
What Is a Catholic?
A plain answer: who belongs to the Church Christ founded on the Apostles, and what holds that Church together.
Why You Need Your Men’s Group
Before asking whether men’s groups work, ask what problem they are meant to solve.
Why Protestants Are Becoming Catholic at My Parish
What draws evangelicals and mainline Protestants into the Catholic Church, as they told me in class.
How God Speaks in Human Words
The first of four articles on how the Bible is at once a human book and the Word of God.
What Is a Catholic?
A Catholic is a baptized member of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church that Jesus Christ founded on the Twelve Apostles and entrusted to the pastoral care of St. Peter and the Apostles' successors, the bishops. A Catholic is united to his local bishop, and that bishop is united to the college of bishops, which is headed by the Bishop of Rome, also called the Pope, the Holy Father, or the Roman Pontiff. Every Catholic bishop can trace his ordination back to the Apostles. The college of bishops is the Magisterium, the official teaching authority of the Catholic Church.
What Is a Protestant?
Any conversation between Catholics and Protestants has to begin with a serious and complicated question: What is a Protestant?
There are thousands of distinct Protestant denominations and church groupings, and they are hard to define and harder still to summarize.
Mary and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Far from the myths of Greece, Rome, Egypt, or Babylon, Mary was invited by the angel into God's plan. It was a proposal, not an imposition. There was no carnality, no bodily lust, and no overriding irrationality of erotic desire. It was a dialogue between Mary and God through the angel Gabriel. Mary stands at the transition point between the Old and the New. The angel mediates God's message, as in the old covenant, but upon her acceptance the Spirit of the Lord overshadows her and the Word becomes flesh.
Mary was responding in faith, not in myth, and she knew at the Annunciation that she stood in a privileged position before God. Her dialogue with the angel reveals the rational and ordered love of God, who never loves at the expense of truth, goodness, and beauty.