by Ascension Media | Sep 30, 2019 | God and Suffering, Guest Blogs, Latest
When God first began teaching me about suffering, I was a young, non-Catholic, and found the whole subject completely depressing. As a rule, most non-Catholics have no theology of suffering. I, personally, had no handle on the glory of suffering, and using those two...
by Carol Lynn Miller | Apr 24, 2019 | Prayer, Talks
In a homily from the octave of Easter, Fr. Spitzer discusses two Resurrection narratives and how each illustrate different ways Jesus revealed Himself to those living in His time and continues to reveal Himself to us today. Fr. Spitzer begins by explaining the two...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Apr 21, 2019 | Shroud of Turin, The Reality of Jesus
Last year, George Weigel’s Wall Street Journal article, “The Easter Effect,” provided an instructive glimpse of the first Christians’ response to encounters with Jesus in His glorified, resurrected body. Weigel first wonders: how did a ragtag band of nobodies from the...
by Carol Lynn Miller | Apr 19, 2019 | God and Suffering, Philosophy, Prayer
In 1979, a large crowd gathered around the church of St. Agnes in New York to hear the wisdom of Fulton Sheen in the last Good Friday homily that he preached. The topic of Bishop Sheen’s homily was “Spectators on and about the Cross.” He broke the spectators into...
by Guest Writer | Apr 2, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Soul
Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another (Mark 9:49-50). Let’s begin with a few observations about salt in Jesus’ time....
