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May 2020
May 31, 2020
During the Feast of Booths, Jesus promised his followers that he gives to him the...
May 29, 2020
Christians must reject all forms of racism, for, as St. John Paul II declared, “Racism...
May 28, 2020
“The virtuous may appear to be bad, but essentially they are good; superficially, the self-important...
May 26, 2020
S.L. Frank, writing about society, suggests individuals cannot exist independent from society as they are...
May 24, 2020
The First Ecumenical Council, the Council of Nicea in 325 CE, became understood as an...
May 22, 2020
Sergius Bulgakov, for a period of his life, considered himself to be a Marxist, but...
May 21, 2020
The final part of Christ’s earthly ministry was not his resurrection from the dead but...
May 18, 2020
St. Diadochos of Photiki, a bishop-ascetic who participated in the Council of Chalcedon, began his...
May 17, 2020
When Jesus encountered a man who was born blind, his disciples asked him why the...
May 15, 2020
Pope St. Paul VI, in Octogesima Adveniens, spoke against racial injustice: Among the victims of...
May 14, 2020
Wisdom, according to the Psalmist, is at the foundation of creation: “O LORD, how manifold...
May 12, 2020
In his address to the Pontifical Academy of Science in 1996, Pope St. John Paul...
May 10, 2020
In the Byzantine Calendar, the fifth Sunday of the Paschal Season (or the fourth Sunday...
May 08, 2020
Those who are self-righteous, those who are so self-absorbed in their own ideas of righteousness...
May 07, 2020
Despite the fact that COVID-19 continues to be a major threat to the United States,...
May 05, 2020
Sacred Scripture is made up of those texts which hold a central place in representing...
May 03, 2020
Patience. For many of us, as we are used to getting most of what we...
May 01, 2020
When disease strikes, we deal with it as is needed. It affects our lives. We...
April 2020
April 29, 2020
Trying to slow the spread of COVID-19 to manageable levels has brought much of the...
April 27, 2020
In the so-called Apostolic Constitutions, probably written in late 4th century Syria, we read not only...
April 26, 2020
Time is important. What happens in time doesn’t merely have temporal significance, it has eternal...
April 24, 2020
Hans Urs von Balthasar suggests that the way many of us treat the concept of...
April 22, 2020
Throughout the United States, pockets of protestors have sprung up, demanding governors to remove quarantine...
April 21, 2020
Sometimes, when told that God expects Christians to take care of the poor, someone will...
April 19, 2020
On the first day of the week (Sunday), but also, counting through the days of...
April 17, 2020
Often when we pray, or rather, when we try to pray, our heart is not...
April 16, 2020
While the novel coronavirus COVID-19 should not be seen as divine punishment, some manipulators are...
April 14, 2020
One of the most dangerous things to develop in popular forms of piety in religion...
April 12, 2020
The First Ode for Resurrection Matins (in the Byzantine tradition) reminds us of the connection...
April 10, 2020
By accepting a place next to criminals, next to those recognized as public sinners, Jesus...
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