James Joyce said it best in Finnegans Wake that “Catholic means here comes everybody.” Our word “catholic” comes from a Greek adjective meaning “universal” and...
Author - John Switzer
“I’m marrying a Presbyterian whose dad is a minister, so we want to get married in her church. Will I still be considered married by the Catholic Church?”...
When considering the Catholic Church, perhaps nothing stands out so obviously as the Mass. Eucharist, according to the Second Vatican Council, is both the...
Can my Buddhist husband be saved? What about my Jewish neighbors and my sister-in-law who is an atheist? An ancient doctrine says extra ecclesiam nulla salus...
In the 11th century, St. Anselm of Canterbury described theology as fides quaerens intellectum, “faith seeking understanding.” A monk who eventually served as...
I often teach men and women who return to college later in life to complete a degree. It is not unusual that some of them are older than I am, and I often...
Wine possesses a multi-layered significance that brings Christians into communion with Christ but also with one another, with our Jewish heritage, and with...
