Freely Given, Freely Received: The True Cost of Grace
Grace is given without price and received without ease. On the disposition of a heart that means to keep what it has been given.
In Luce Veritatis
In the Light of Truth
Essays, reviews and reflections on the Catholic faith — Scripture, the Catechism, and the ordinary life of grace.
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The Long Green Season
Ordinary Time is the longest stretch of the Church's year and the least dramatic. Most of a life is spent there.
Faith: The First of the Three
First in a series on faith, hope and charity. Faith is not certainty, and treating it as certainty makes doubt into apostasy when it is usually just weather.
The Argument That Convinced Nobody
Every proof of God's existence is valid and almost nobody is converted by one. That is not a failure of the arguments. It may be a fact about what assent is.
A Book That Reads You Back
A review of Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (trans. Henry Chadwick, Oxford World's Classics)
Augustine's Confessions is usually described as the first autobiography. It is better understood as a prayer that happens to be overheard.