Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Homage to Catatonia

At some point over the past decade—or maybe it was earlier—you have woken up.

Baseball and rumors of angels

One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college and graduate school. High on that roster of intellectual-mentors-become-friends-and-colleagues stands the […]

Telling Our Resurrection Stories: Victory over pain, tears and death

The Christian celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead at Easter is for us a victory beyond human imagination. Jesus, the Son of God and rejected Messiah, had suffered the humiliation, pain and shame of the crucifixion and death on the cross. On the third day he rose from death as a sign of God’s […]

Nothing Gold

Nothing Gold Few modern artists are so endlessly pretty as Gustav Klimt. In the paintings of this fin de siècle Austrian, a woman’s skin is always luminous, her cheeks forever rosy, her plump body drowning in diaphanous silks and richly patterned robes. His compositions are bright, bold, and flat, all gold leaf and flowers, their […]

Hiring for Mission at Catholic Colleges and Universities

In his Convocation Address at Ave Maria University earlier this academic year, San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone discussed the significance of Catholic higher education as a “modern solution to guide an age that has lost its way.” Reaffirming Ave Maria University’s commitment to faithful Catholic higher education and her dedication to teaching faith and reason… […]

Is There Really Hope for Judas?

These last few Maundy Thursdays, my feed has been populated by various musings presenting Judas as a pitiable figure who may not be in hell after all. I thought it rather diabolical that a day of sympathy for our Lord is now turning into a day of sympathy for His betrayer. But as I considered […]

Bishop Strickland Issues Warning About A New Error That Threatens The Faith

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Baseball and Rumors of Angels

One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college and graduate school. High on that roster of intellectual-mentors-become-friends-and-colleagues stands the late Peter L. Berger, the distinguished sociologist of religion who brought the humanities (including philosophy and theology) into his work […]