Jesus Is Always Present in His Humanity: “Maximally” in the Eucharist

The three-year Eucharistic Revival launched by the United States’ Bishops on the Feast of Corpus Christi last year is not only a wonderful opportunity to reencounter our Lord in the Most Holy Sacrament, but also a welcome occasion to clear up some murkiness in our Christology. This was made startlingly clear to me while listening […]

Did Jesus Ever Laugh?

There is no passage in the New Testament that indicates that Jesus laughed.  This does not mean, of course, that He never laughed.  He was human and experienced an array of emotions from sorrow to anger.  But if He did occasionally indulge in laughter, it was not recorded.  Nonetheless, it is easy to imagine Him […]

Feeling Safe

TRANSCRIPT   At the core of every human being is the desire to feel and be safe. It’s not to be loved, at least on its own. It’s to be safe, to be protected. Those are by-products of love, what love ultimately leads to. Providing safety — is there any better way to describe authentic masculinity? The entire patriarchy, […]

Who’s converting whom?

Guillaume de Menthière is a French priest and theologian whose recent writings have focused on conversion, not in the sense of changing one’s religion but in turning from sin and to God which, when you […]