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October 15, 2026

Rejecting Doom: Christian Hope And Human Action

Christianity is a religion of hope. We are to have hope and use it to...

July 2026

July 07, 2026

The Church’s Call To Kindness

Kindness is a quality which is a part of who God is, making it is...

June 2026

June 28, 2026

From Saul To Paul, Selfishness To Selfless Love

Paul prayed for the salvation of all his brethren, that is, the Jews. This shows...

April 2026

April 06, 2026

Rejecting Fear, Embracing Hope

Christ is Risen! Joy From Heaven is around us, Christ our Pasch now dwells among...

January 2026

January 18, 2026

Zacchaeus: A Model Of Transformation And Hope

With God, anything is possible, which is why we can hope for the salvation of...

August 2025

August 31, 2025

God’s Unyielding Love: The Hope Of Salvation For Everyone

With God, all things are possible. When we hear this, we should take it for...

June 2025

June 20, 2025

Becoming The Person God Intends Us To Be

Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but we are not. We, at least...

June 04, 2025

The Conditional Nature of Judgment: Insights From Jonah

J.R.R. Tolkien, who worked on a translation of the book of Jonah for the Jerusalem...

April 2025

April 11, 2025

Knowledge As A Gift: Using It For The Common Good

Paul explained that there are three theological virtues, those of faith, hope and love, with...

March 2025

March 07, 2025

Salvation As A Communal Journey

As a theologian, Joseph Ratzinger promoted a hopeful eschatological vision. He explained that humanity has...

November 2024

November 27, 2024

Thanksgiving And Hope

It was not long after I was chrismated, becoming Byzantine Catholic, that I was in...

September 2024

September 25, 2024

PRS* XIX Prophets Of Doom

When I was young, long before I became a Catholic, or even before I considered...

April 2024

April 26, 2024

We Should Take Hell Seriously

Jesus did many things in his temporal ministry from healing the sick, promoting those who...

January 2024

January 30, 2024

Conditional Hopes And Warnings

Christian Scripture warns us of the possibility of hell, that is, of eternal perdition, but...

October 2023

October 17, 2023

Fighting Our Fear

The Christian faith is a faith of hope and love, not fear. Those who think...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

The Relationship Between Humility And Hope As Revealed To St. Antony

St. Antony the Great, though remembered in history as one of the great early monastic...

February 2023

February 14, 2023

Universal Salvation: Hope Vs. Presumption

Recently, there have been many theological discussions and debates centering around the subject of universalism,...

February 12, 2023

Hope In The Eschatological Judgment

We must care for each other. We can’t ignore those suffering from abuse, those facing...

January 2023

January 29, 2023

Neither Prideful Nor Despairing: The Way Of The Publican

There are two common errors which religious people often fall into. The first is the...

January 15, 2023

We Should Embrace Hope, Even In The Midst Of Failures

We can hope that we everyone will be saved because our God is a living...

November 2022

November 09, 2022

Hope And Fear After The United States Mid-Term Elections

Nihilism, not desire for truth or justice, seems to be making its way into the...

June 2022

June 26, 2022

Hope In God’s Love

Hope and love are essential for Christians. They should serve as the foundation of every...

May 2022

May 10, 2022

Eschatological Hope

While God has revealed various elements of the eschaton to us, and we can and...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

All In All

Paul, speaking eschatologically, tells us that Christ will give all things over to God so...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

We Must Not Despair

Often, despite our pursuit for holiness, we find ourselves succumbing to our various vices; though...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

The Strength Of Love

“Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Time Without Sacraments? Do Not Fear. We Can Still Receive God’s Grace

While the Mass (Divine Liturgy) has a central role in the Christian life, we must...

March 28, 2019

Despair

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie down in...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Eschatological Speculations

Saint Augustine with the way he understood original sin and salvation, suggested that the number...

July 2018

July 10, 2018

When Fighting Evil, Hope In The Good

Wealth, government, industry and science, all are goods in and of themselves. But each of...

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