Joshua Whitfield
June 28, 2019
“Discipleship is not an offer man makes to Christ,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And it’s the point of this Sunday’s passage from Luke, about being “fit for the kingdom of God” (Lk 9:62).
June 21, 2019
Of course, the faith we share is not merely a collection of concepts. The faith we share is a person—Christ himself. We don’t merely talk about Jesus; we live in him. He is truly in us, and we are truly in him. This is the deep abiding truth of Catholicism, that Christ is not absent but […]
June 15, 2019
Today we celebrate the most Holy Trinity, the Catholic dogma of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We must admit, though, it’s something of a troublesome dogma, difficult if not embarrassing for some. It’s always been so.
June 15, 2019
This weekend we celebrate the Trinity. That is, we celebrate the Catholic faith in substance, what the Catechism calls the “central mystery,” the dogma without which we are nothing, without which there is no salvation—our faith that there is “only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son, and the Holy Spirit.”
June 8, 2019
I always think of Saint Philip Neri around Pentecost. You might’ve not heard of him; he’s less popular these days than he used to be.
June 7, 2019
Graham Greene’s novel The Power and the Glory begins with the protagonist, the “whiskey priest,” waiting for a boat on the banks of the Grijalva River, contemplating his escape.