After Jacob of Serug Blessed are you, O Maiden; blest The fruit which dwells within your womb,Beloved in that holy rest Whose secret comes to sacred bloom.And blessed is this virgin birth Which shall uproot sin from the earth. Who grants this . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Lady of Guadalupe unites the Old World and the New, and so a new Christian people is formed from the two—a mestizo people. Continue Reading »
Notre-Dame is not merely a witness to the history of France; it is also a result of that history. Continue Reading »
It isn't the building of stone, glass, and wood that matters, but the worship offered therein. Continue Reading »
Emma Maggie Solberg's The Virgin Whore spends far too much time taking bad jokes and strained wordplay too seriously, and too little time taking basic theology seriously enough. Continue Reading »
The dogma of the Immaculate Conception affirms that Mary's privileged status is due to Christ alone, Christus solus. Continue Reading »
When I was three years old, I asked my pregnant mother whether Jesus could come into me as my baby brother had come into her. It was my inept way of saying that I wanted to accept Jesus into my heart as my personal lord and savior, an idea to which my Evangelical church had already introduced me. . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Virgin Mary we can identify the dispositions, qualities, and virtues we need to be truth-receivers and truth-givers, which is to say, genuine intellectuals. Continue Reading »
When conventions are aligned with morality, keeping up appearances is sane. Continue Reading »
Featuring Rachel Fulton Brown on her book Mary and the Art of Prayer. Continue Reading »
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