Did Mary Have Agency?
by Kirsten SandersIn her new book Women and the Gender of God, Amy Peeler adds contemporary questions of power and consent to the shopworn themes of feminist theology. Continue Reading »
In her new book Women and the Gender of God, Amy Peeler adds contemporary questions of power and consent to the shopworn themes of feminist theology. Continue Reading »
At this Catholic moment, when so many are disturbed by ecclesiastical dysfunction, it is good, at Christmastide, to reflect on Mary and the Church—and on what Mary’s initial act of discipleship, that fiat, means for us today. Continue Reading »
Here is a new English verse translation of one of St. Ambrose's most popular compositions, which takes the Incarnation of the Son of God as its theme. Continue Reading »
Only through tribulation does hope have its advent in the world, and all this comes to literal fulfillment in Mary. Continue Reading »
While the theology of the Immaculate Conception wasn't formulated until the Middle Ages, it was widely believed from the earliest days of the Church. Continue Reading »
Litanies are one of my favorite forms of prayer: a rare pleasure that I look forward to on feast days, and a mystery that I sometimes contemplate and try to understand. Continue Reading »
Pakaluk interprets John’s soaring Gospel as informed by conversations he must have enjoyed with Mary over thirty years of living and communing in their common home. Continue Reading »
Ours is a Catholic country, not because of what we have done there, but because there has been prepared a place for God to do something. Continue Reading »
The Virgin's influence extends to American art. Continue Reading »
We should celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception with fanfare because Mariology is ecclesiology—every special grace given to Mary is an eschatological promise to the Church. Continue Reading »