There is not a moment in which God is not present with us under the cover of some pain to be endured, some obligation or some duty to be performed, or some consolation to be enjoyed.
The Second Reading for Sunday, August 26, is from St. Paul (Ephesians 5:21-32), in which Paul offers the instruction in 5:22, "Wives should be subordinate to their husbands, as to the Lord."
What's not so often acknowledged is that tolerance implies reciprocity from the person whose behavior is tolerated.
There has been no shortage of recent media stories bound to embarrass the Roman Catholic Church.
The small, hidden, anonymous God I found in the Gospels appealed to me deeply.
On the Fall of Man, recounted in but a few verses in the third chapter of Genesis, one might well fill many shelves full of books, so rich is the mythic presentation of what Newman called the aboriginal calamity, a disastrous turning away from God wherein we are all involved.
Jesus asks his disciples to exercise authority like a child or a servant.
Every Catholic is at some point obliged to defend the flair his Church has for covering everything in gold.
On the sixth day of creation, God made the "beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and everything that creepeth on the earth," and He saw that it was good. But the day's work was not done.
