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 |  | A Complete Unknown Offers a New Myth of Dylan Alex Taylor
To use Bob Dylan's songs as a metaphor, the words of the substance of doctrine must remain the same, even as the music of its presentation might change from society to society. A Complete Unknown suggests that our culture today is searching for wisdom about whether the artist—or really, any one of us—can find hope for something beyond expressive individualism, a place of belonging in a tradition which develops but does not rupture, and respects the uniqueness of our various vocations.
| | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Nick Cave: There Is a Kingdom Matthew Malone
Nick Cave is one of the most prodigious and deeply religious songwriters of our time. He has traversed the trials and temptations of the inferno to have contributed some of the most poetic, transcendent, human, and biblically inspired work of the popular music canon. The Bible is the enduring and comprehensive thread tying, underlying, sustaining, and nurturing Cave's artistic vision from the earliest days of the Boys Next Door, the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds, and everything in between. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | The Zone of Comfort Caroline LaFleur
When comfort becomes the ultimate false god, as for Rudolph and Heddy Hӧss in The Zone of Interest, it can become quite bad indeed. Secular culture seems to tell us that the point of life is to be as comfortable as possible, to avoid even the most minute inconvenience or irritation. The worship is not just of physical comfort, but of emotional, interpersonal comfort. It invades our personalities and affects the way we walk in the world with others.
| | READ ARTICLE | | |  | The Courage of a Friend Dr. Holly Ordway
To be sure, courage, or fortitude, "enables one to conquer fear, even fear of death, and to face trials and persecutions" and "disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause." It behooves us, then, to look for examples of everyday courage to help us understand better how to cultivate this virtue in our own lives. Aragorn and Gandalf are impressive heroes, but we could do worse than to have Samwise Gamgee as a model for everyday courage. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | The Vice of a Technocratic Age Alejandro Terán-Somohano
Sloth pulls us away from the spiritual good that we no longer perceive as such, and it pushes us to pursue that which we now mistakenly take for the greater good. We are so anxious and burdened with the many things our technological devices are constantly nagging us about that we neglect the one thing that is needed. Our technology will genuinely benefit us (both materially and spiritually) when what we make reveals creation to be what it is in reality: an expression of God's goodness, a reason for us to worship him.
| | READ ARTICLE | | |  | The Myth of "the Vatican" John Allen, Jr.
Of all the time-honored myths about the Vatican that Catholic evangelists are sure to encounter sooner or later, one is so obvious it often escapes notice unless someone calls attention to it—to wit, the notion that there is something called "the Vatican" at all. The Vatican is not an organism. It's a complex bureaucracy that includes many different experiences, outlooks, agendas, and sets of hopes and dreams, fears, and anxieties. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Can There Be Free Will with an All Knowing God?
Michael Adams
I've encountered this question—or variations of it—countless times on Reddit and X. While I disagree with their stance, I understand why they believe this. To meet critics where they are, Christians must explore this question using something we have in common with them: human reason. This manner of inquiry into the question not only supports the truth that faith asserts but helps illuminate it more fully.
| | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Playing Ball with God Fr. Brian A. Graebe
Sport, as a form of leisure, becomes most enjoyable as an antidote to the rat race, where time itself is suspended. When we watch a baseball game or a tennis match, we have no idea how long it will take. We have entered a world unto itself that will last until a particular mission is accomplished. These time-less sports also offer a metaphor for the spiritual life as they caution against both presumption and despair. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | Making Sense of the Real Presence Dr. Chad Engelland
A child's authority only extends to the identity of the doll within the game the child creates and regulates. What of Jesus' authority? He speaks with the self-same authority that merely had to speak and all was made. If he says, "This is my Body," and he has the authority of the Creator of all, then it is his Body. Then in this transformed context, one's own body becomes the home into which Christ is to be welcomed. You can only welcome someone who is bodily present. | | READ ARTICLE | | |  | A New "Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology" Is in the Works Dr. Richard DeClue
An educational initiative has recently begun that I am very excited about. I think it will be a wonderful resource for my own work and for inquiring minds in general. It is a web-based, open-access Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology. The leadership is impressive. The board of advisors is long and distinguished, involving scholars and bishops alike. | | READ ARTICLE | | |
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