Thursday, May 5, 20220139Mary is never named in the Gospel of John. In the only scenes featuring her, the beloved disciple refers to her simply as “the mother of Jesus.” Those two episodes...
Monday, April 25, 2022019Our world needs Christian faith. A book that proved this to me regarding the medical field is Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental...
Friday, April 8, 20220122Many of us want to grow in holiness and draw closer to God. Our perception of our personal holiness or closeness to God often revolves around how many prayers we say,...
Thursday, April 7, 20220118The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, declared in a book of prose that “the Scriptures constitute the common good of...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022092
By Father Ignacio Olvera
Special to The Texas Catholic
What happens when a priest walks into a bar? With the will of God, anything it seems.
A few years ago...
Monday, March 28, 202205This Lent I’m studying the “wilderness” or “desert” in Scripture, and especially in the journey of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. The dangerous wild...
Sunday, March 13, 20220382A curious pattern of exile is evident in the endings of several Old Testament books. After God promises Abram the land of Canaan, the patriarch must immediately flee to...
Friday, March 11, 20220231I want you to know how much I believe in and love Lent, and I want you to know how much I wish that no one would say “I don’t believe in Lent.”
Thursday, February 24, 2022035One of the shibboleths of our times is the word diversity. Our use of the word can easily signal our social, political and philosophical sympathies. It is ubiquitous in...