By Makena Wisniewski

O little soul, know your worth. The Beloved is here! He cries to you, “I have come!” Listen. Listen carefully. Do you hear Him? This is the battle cry, the battle gladly fought for you.

By Magdalena Kyne

Woman’s beauty, mystery, and role as eser kenegdo all serve her fundamental vocation as mother and life-giver. She is relational to the core. From the beginning, when Eve was given the glorious title of “mother of all the living,” this has been her grace for the world.

By John Quejada

Even to modern Catholics, St. Paul seems to be degrading marriage, portraying it as merely a remedial arrangement for those who lack the willpower and temperance to embrace virginity. Without denying the true goodness and sanctity of marriage, St. Paul believes that virginity is a higher state.

By Magdalena Kyne

While history looks to the past to learn about the present, covenantal history contextualizes the present in light of the Lord of History, a Savior who keeps his promises.

By Maximilian Schmiesing

This idea that the demands of the law are written on the hearts of man is central to C.S. Lewis’s essay, “Men Without Chests,” and by discerning his message we can come to a deeper understanding of Paul’s message in Romans 2. 

By Alex Denley

Her insights demand from Catholic philosophers a recognition of their utter dependence on theology and the faith, but at the same time an ennobling and hopeful prospect of bringing about a synthesis unifying the whole of reason and revelation.

By Makena Wisniewski

Both Paul and John Paul II understood marriage to be a reflection of God's union with the Church, but with respect to co-creation and co-redemption with God, John Paul II argued that the early Church Fathers did not give marriage enough praise.

By Makena Wisniewski

Bernard of Clairvaux not only reformed the papacy and influenced the calling of the Second Crusade, but inspired all people of faith that the Catholic Church, in its superiority and right rule over the Holy Roman Empire, was worth fighting for.

By Magdalena Kyne

The rest of the poem covers the unfolding of Alfred’s understanding of this radical truth. He was granted a new way of seeing, and so was willing to be a fool for Christ, to be the person with their feet on earth and their eyes on heaven, and to lead with unshakable faith.

By Makena Wisniewski

With an influx of Jews in Russia, Russian diplomats scrambled to incorporate them into Russian life. However, the integration proved impossible, leading to the degradation of the Jews within Russian society, and thus, the Pale of Settlement that proceeded consequently.

By Josef Saunders

By the interchangeability of Christ and the Superior, the unifying figures of the monastery, we can divide their function in the Rule into three kinds of unities, those of Community, Formation, and Prayer, a similar division to Benedict’s own injunction to “teach, authorize, [and] command” (106). His actions made clear, it may be shown how the Abbot reflects his namesake and Christ.

By Magdalena Kyne

The place of pain and, at best, patient endurance becomes a place of encounter with Love itself, the Word far surpassing the words even of the great Marcus Aurelius.

By Magdalena Kyne

I am not a feminist. I see no reason to define myself as such. I am a Catholic, and I do not need another name for the belief that men and women are equal.

By Irene Tomasovic

Red light, yellow light

Every light

Is a blur

By Irene Tomasovic

I know God,

He is my father,

Where I can fall into His freeness,

Flee from the world in His fortress,

And be made fully alive in His faithfulness,

By Irene Tomasovic

they say the eyes are the window to the soul

they say that your eyes glow

they say I should know . . .

By Magdalena Kyne

Galadriel’s journey from rebellion in Valinor to rejection of the Ring embodies the feminine journey to holiness, going from Eve’s pride to Mary’s humility.

By Makena Wisniewski

As the life of Saint Augustine showcased, the Word, the language of Love from which all others will derive, amplifies the intellect and heart not just for the redemption of this world, but for the embrace of the next.

By Magdalena Kyne

Unless these two facts can be held with equal fervor, that man and woman are equal and that man and woman are different, society cannot approach either man or woman properly, nor would there be any reason to distinguish between the two.

By Joseph Cherney

Understanding the literary context and themes that make up John’s Gospel as a whole, it becomes easier to focus in and pick out the pieces that John places in the Passion narrative relating to kingship and the divine plan of God as Christ is revealed to be more than simply a rabbi.