The Gospels sometimes tells stories of misunderstanding. The horizon of misunderstanding in St. Luke's Gospel is Christ’s journey to Jerusalem - the journey into suffering, abandonment and death. St Luke tells us that Christ set His face towards this horizon - meaning that He would not be diverted from it, but...
Now He is not God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him. What do these words of Christ tell us? They tell us that in the sight of God there is no parity between life and death: in relation to God life and death are not...
I’ve been encouraged to share my personal response to Antoni Gaudi’s Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and I gladly do so. However, in responding in a personal way I have fond hopes that this will not be an entirely self-indulgent exercise. Hope One is that how this structure...
This series of books published by the Catholic University of America Press introduces Catholic doctrine and spirituality from a perspective rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In recent decades, dogmatic theology in the Thomist tradition has been enriched by careful attention to history, Scripture, the Fathers of the...
“Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?” The parable of the Good Samaritan speaks directly to the conscience of the human race. Who, on hearing this parable, would not blame the priest and the Levite who, when they saw the...
