“We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks”. What does it mean to glorify God? As implied in the Gloria, that ancient liturgical prayer which contains these words, to glorify must be different than to bless, or…
Author: Dana Robinson
Empty passports
A national news station recently reported that U.S. passports will soon list three options for citizens to identify their sex: male, female, and other. Does this decision cause anyone else to pause and wonder? Where is the limit to such self-definition? Will we soon be…
Holy Family Hospital
The following article was published in this column last year. Given the desperate plight Bethlehem now faces we reprint it here with the website of the Holy Family Hospital Foundation in Washington. Faten’s Story Faten, a Palestinian social worker from Gaza, was 33 weeks pregnant…
Berengarianism
In anticipation of her being confirmed next Spring my granddaughter’s parish provided her with an abundance of materials about the sacrament. Included among them is the YouTube link to Bishop Robert Barron’s address to the 2020 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress titled “The Real Presence…
Christendom College
The United States of America is blessed with multiple forms of Catholic academic institutions. These exist at levels progressing from elementary school, through high school, through university and graduate schools. Some are parochial, some private, and some sponsored by dioceses. In ways that vary but…
Conflicting destinies
Has ethical preaching supplanted eschatological preaching? Are we so caught up in making the most of now that we forget we are created to live in eternal beatitude with God? Even after the fracture of Christendom around the middle of the last millennium heirs of…
Given or taken
Years ago in some philosophy course at college I recall reading one author’s prophecy that mankind (so we were called then) will someday have to choose between totalitarianism and charity. Put metaphorically, will the wheels that make the world go around be greased by resources…
Cross Catholic Outreach
Cross Catholic Outreach: Celebrating 20 Years of Service to the Poor “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing,” the late Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, famously wrote. It’s good advice. And by that measure,…
Post hoc exsilium
Recently I read that fewer than half of Italy’s Catholics believe life is eternal, that is that there is ‘life after death’. How many of us in our country who identify ourselves as Christians are of like mind? What, if any, are our thoughts on…
Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations
Many young men and women are called to religious lift but are prevented or delayed because of student debt. OPENING THE DOORS TO VOCATIONS The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations exists for one purpose: to support vocations to the priesthood and religious life by removing the obstacle…