The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film The Two Popes should, by rights, be called The One Pope
I am sure that every religious person, every believer in God, at some point wonders, “Why doesn’t God just straighten everything out?”
“to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
Last week, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away. Perhaps his was not a household name, but this very decent man made a substantive contribution to the life of the Church
There is, to be sure, a stress within the Biblical tradition that God is radically other
Albert Einstein wrote a letter in which he dismissed belief in God as superstitious
There is a common, and I’ll admit somewhat understandable, interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that sees the great work as a celebration of the virtues of the Shire, that little town where the hobbits dwell in quiet domesticity.
The account of St. Paul’s address on the Areopagus in Athens, found in the seventeenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles
There were more Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than in all of the previous nineteen centuries combined