Tag: Easter

Easter Triduum approaches!  The Liturgy Guys share some of their favorite factoids about this most holy season.  For example, did you know it’s not pronounced, “Tri-Doom?”

Like “Christmas Catholic,” the phrase usually refers, in a negative way, to Catholics who rarely attend Mass.

This extended Pentecost Vigil is filled with high drama.

The Church shouts at us every Easter: We have nothing to fear from the future, because we know it is in good hands — God’s hands.

Why do we pretend things that happened a long, long time ago are happening right now? I brought my question to the Theology floor at Benedictine College.

From the start, Jesus is a great king entering into Jerusalem in a regal way. Things will change quickly once he gets there, as we know. But his demeanor won’t change.

As the world continues to debate and fight against ISIS, the Memorare Army for Religious Freedom at Benedictine College is asking for continued prayers for the Christians, Yezidis, and Shias who are constantly

I was lecturing rhapsodically about beauty’s power to pierce the defensive shell of today’s world last week when I noticed that my students were having none of it. I stopped and said,

(Photo: Flickr Yuya Sekiguchi) St. Paul famously said that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, our faith is in vain. This Sunday’s Gospel shows that the same thing can

By Fr. Matthew Habiger, OSB | A moral theologian, former president of HLI and noted expert on Natural Family Planning, Fr. Habiger is also a monk at St. Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison,