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March 2020

March 11, 2020

Engaging Morality Vs. Following Legalism

Many, if not most people, have a very simple understanding of morality. They reduce everything...

March 10, 2020

Fasting

Self-control, that is, self-discipline, is a difficult thing to learn (especially when we live in...

March 08, 2020

The Meaning of St Gregory Palamas Sunday

The first Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, celebrated the triumph of icons, and...

March 06, 2020

The Vatican and AI: Rome Calls For AI Ethics

The Catholic Church has a reputation of being behind the times. While, in some ways,...

March 04, 2020

Athanasius and the Deification of the Flesh

In their conflict with the Arians, those following the decrees of Nicea had to develop...

March 03, 2020

Almsgiving

My confreres, our inheritance is the poor, the poor; pauperibus evangelizare misit me. What happiness,...

March 01, 2020

The Triumph of Orthodoxy, The Triumph of the Kingdom of God

The First Sunday of Lent in the Byzantine cycle is the Sunday of Orthodoxy. This...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

We Can Survive The Coronavirus, But We Must Act With Wisdom

The coronavirus presents a significant threat. While we do not know exactly how dangerous it...

February 26, 2020

St. Photina, The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well

One of the more interesting events presented in the Gospels is when Jesus met with...

February 25, 2020

Perceiving Christ in Many Forms

Scripture shows us that the God-Man, Jesus, the Logos become flesh, has appeared, and continues...

February 23, 2020

Overcoming Judgmentalism

In the Byzantine Catholic calendar, the Great Fast, Lent, starts with right after Forgiveness Vespers...

February 21, 2020

A Balanced Life

We all need to take care of ourselves. Leisure and rest are necessary parts of...

February 20, 2020

Querida Amazonia and the Desert Fathers: The Wisdom of Humility

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers often provides monastic wisdom which can and should be...

February 17, 2020

Humans, Animals, and God: Learning About The Other Through Analogy

Epistemologically, it is difficult for us to prove we know what happens outside of ourselves....

February 16, 2020

Preparing For The Last Judgment

On the Byzantine Catholic calendar, Meatfare Sunday, the Sunday which commemorates the Second Coming of...

February 13, 2020

Querida Amazonia And The Mission of the Catholic Church

Lumen Gentium presented one of the most important statements of the Church offered at an...

February 12, 2020

Religious Liberty Is Fundamental

One of the most important developments of Vatican Council II is its promotion of religious...

February 10, 2020

Making A Mockery of Religious Liberty

Catholic Social Teaching should be used by Catholic schools and universities. Instead, many of them...

February 09, 2020

The Prodigal Son and Us

The Second Sunday of the Byzantine Pre-Lent Triodion reminds us of the great and bountiful...

February 07, 2020

Tolkien, Myth, And The Flexibility of Catholic Thought

J.R.R. Tolkien, believing England did not possess a great myth of its own, wanted to...

February 06, 2020

The Eucharist and Eschatology

Week after week, month after month, year after year, Catholics partake of the eucharist, knowing...

February 04, 2020

SOTUS 2020

When talking abut the State of the Union (that is, of the United States) in...

February 02, 2020

Simeon and Anna, The Publican and Pharisee

The Temple in Jerusalem holds an important role in salvation history. Those who came to...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Worthily Receiving the Eucharist

Talking about the last judgment, Jesus indicated that we shall learn that what we did...

January 30, 2020

Greatness and the Three Hierarchs (St. Basil, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom)

Once, there was a debate in Constantinople concerning who among St. Basil the Great, St....

January 28, 2020

Aquinas and God: Why Muslims And Others Believe In The Same God As The Christians

St. Thomas Aquinas pointed out there is a distinction between what we can come to...

January 26, 2020

The Conversion of Zacchaeus

On five Sundays preceding the Great Fast, the Byzantine tradition prepares its people with themes...

January 24, 2020

God, Humanity and Exile

In the 16th century, Rabbi Isaac Luria presented his own developed insight on the Kabbalah....

January 23, 2020

Rooting Out Antisemitism

Meeting with a delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center on January 20, 2020, Pope Francis...

January 21, 2020

St. Maximos, The Purpose of Humanity and Universal Salvation

In his works, St. Maximos the Confessor indicated God’s desire for humanity: In the beginning,...

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