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Father is a complex metaphor for God
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Heidi RussellWhile recent decades have seen feminine images of God spread even to mainstream...
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What is sin?
Article Author: Kevin P. ConsidineWhen I was in high school, I wanted to go to a party. I knew that my parents would say no, so I lied and said that I was at a friend’s house and went anyway. This was...
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Let the Holy Spirit guide how we talk about race
Article Author: Grace Ji-Sun KimGrowing up in London, Ontario was not easy for me as an Asian immigrant. I was taunted on the school playground almost daily. Kids used derogatory slang, chanting “ching...
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What is atonement?
Article Author: Kevin P. Considine“Jesus died for our sins.” As a teacher and churchgoer, I hear this expression quite often by people making a connection between salvation from sin and Christ’s...
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What is grace?
Article Author: Jacob KohlhaasReligious education has taught generations of Catholics that grace is a free gift of God’s favor. It is received through the sacraments and makes our salvation possible....
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Did God create evil?
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Meghan J. ClarkIn Kenya there is a common call and response: “God is good” the speaker calls...
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Where do we get the Marian dogmas?
Article Author: John SwitzerScholars of early Christianity are in agreement that interest in the mother of Jesus was mostly initiated by the need to clarify the church’s teachings about the nature of...
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What is natural law?
Article Author: Jacob KohlhaasBroadly understood, natural law refers to a range of moral theories that rely on rational discernment of the natural order as a means of telling good from evil. Within...
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Can God learn?
Article Author: Susan A. RossLearning is one of the most important things that human beings, as well as other living things, do. We eagerly teach our children, our students, even our pets, and we take...
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Why is the Assumption a Holy Day of Obligation?
Article Author: Kathleen ManningAssumption celebrations in the Catholic Church are a blend of the very old and the relatively new. Written stories about what transpired at the end of Mary’s life date...
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Where do the sacraments come from?
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: David A. PittOne summer afternoon, driving past a cemetery, I saw six bikers talking, laughing,...
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No one had to die for our sins.
Article Author: A U.S. Catholic interviewCare for creation often falls low on the list of priorities for the majority of Christians, with many even vocal that environmental stewardship isn’t a...
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What's so special about friendship?
Article Author: Martin E MartyYou “fall into” love, but you do not “fall into” friendship. Yet you can “fall out of” friendship. At least the dictionaries and phrase books are ready for such an...
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Why was Jesus baptized?
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: David A. PittTwenty years ago, director M. Night Shyamalan’s movie The Sixth Sense changed how...
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Must we call the persons of the Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
Article Author: Teresa CodaOne of the paradoxes of our Catholic faith is that its foundational element, belief in the Trinity, the flour to the bread of Catholicism, cannot be understood through human...
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What does it mean to be a Catholic in good standing?
Article Author: Teresa CodaAs the director of faith formation at a Catholic parish, I’m frequently asked questions about the logistics of the sacraments. Can I miss the confirmation service and still...
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Why do Catholics venerate the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
Article Author: Jeffrey EssmannAcross time and cultures the heart has symbolized a variety of traits: love, awareness, the will, along with numerous other prime movers of humanity. From Cro-Magnon Man...
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What does it mean to see God?
Article Author: A U.S. Catholic interviewWhat does it mean to see God? Is it a literal vision, along the lines of Moses and the burning bush or Jacob’s tussle with a divine figure in the Hebrew Bible?...
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What happens after we die?
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Alice CamilleIf you’re hankering for the storybook heaven in which you get your heart’s desire...
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What’s the difference between Sunday and the Sabbath?
Article Author: David A. PittNames matter. St. John Paul II clearly writes in Dies Domini (On Keeping the Lord’s Day Holy) that Sabbath (the seventh day of the week) and Sunday (the first day of the...
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