Author: Dana Robinson

Since its earliest days when its Greco-Roman branches grafted themselves on to its Judaic roots, Christianity has advocated the pursuit of truth through education. While it is true that in the course of the ensuing millennia some “branches” of Christianity have eschewed education as a…

Catholics in the United States of America will in the not too distant future witness a most edifying blossoming of the faith. It is a blossoming of a tree whose roots go back as far as the mid-16th century Florida. In more recent years its…

A priest in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, kindly passed on the following message from Brian Flanagan, president of the Catholic Student Association at Rutgers University:

More than likely most Catholics in the United States consider the Catholic Church to be the Roman Catholic Church and think that what makes it ‘Catholic’ is the universality manifested in its presence throughout the world. This is a limited understanding. A fuller understanding of…

The liturgical year will end in a few weeks with the feast of Christ the King. In the modern world the religious imagery of a kingdom, as in ‘Thy kingdom come,” may seem odd since it refers to a system of social organization long since…

Adrian Abeyta grew up an atheist and spent his young life arguing against the Christian faith. After years of being “afraid to learn something he couldn’t accept,” Adrian felt like he needed to find that “something” that was missing in his life.

It would be a safe bet that readers of this column, regardless of their “positions” on religion, will agree that the advance of our Lord’s Kingdom in some way depends on our interaction with the world’s poor.( Poverty here refers, of course, not just to…

The Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) was founded early in 1995 when Jesuit Fathers Jim Conroy and the late Charlie Costello gathered a small group of retired women and men to consider ways to minister to persons who are materially poor and, at the same time,…

… to the full extent of its strength and competence Given globalization and the world’s instantaneous communication capabilities anyone interested in the cultivation of the faith might understandably wonder why two millennia after Christianity’s founding this “universal” religion isn’t universally embraced.

Since its founding, Christianity has employed imagery to capture the reality of the Church. Consider St. Paul’s reference to the Body of Christ, or subsequent references to the Bride of Christ, the Lord’s flock, or the People of God. One particularly poetic image which can…