One of my favorite Christmas songs goes: “Oh tell me when was Jesus born?” But the gospels offer no date for Jesus’ birthday. Some people say we only celebrate...
Glad You Asked
Glad You Asked is a column that presents informed, enlightened responses to basic questions of Catholic doctrine, history, identity, or pastoral practice.
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Catholics are accustomed to thinking of the term apostle as referring exclusively to men: the Twelve who...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Mary’s “Magnificat” is pretty revolutionary. It isn’t praising God for abstract blessings, but for real...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts “Look to Mary as a model of authentic womanhood.” That’s the message church leaders have directed at...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts According to several recent studies of health care systems across the globe, the U.S. health care system...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Recent years have seen increased climate-related natural disasters. In the United States, an inland...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Catholic just war theory is a moral framework for evaluating warfare that dates back to St. Augustine but...
Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Here in the United States, the principle that church and state should be separate is so woven into the...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In the Christian tradition, “apocalypse” simply means revelation, or unveiling. Yet somewhere along the...
