A Word to Enkindle: The Divine Philanthropy at Christmas
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A Word to Enkindle: ‘Humanae Vitae’ and its Joyful Prophets
Click here to read A Word to Enkindle: ‘Humanae Vitae’ and its Joyful Prophets By Father Thomas Esposito, written for The Texas Catholic.
A Word to Enkindle: The apocalypse that we need now
‘The apocalypse that we need now’ By Father Thomas Esposito for The Texas Catholic. My friend Father Josh Whitfield of St. Rita Catholic Church recently wrote a fine Dallas Morning News op-ed in which he suggests that America is experiencing a political...
A Word to Enkindle: The cosmos that puts chaos to flight
‘The cosmos that puts chaos to flight’ By Father Thomas Esposito for The Texas Catholic. Almost every semester, I teach a course for freshmen at the University of Dallas entitled “Understanding the Bible,” though most students prefer the hipster nickname...
A Word to Enkindle: Of these things we are witnesses
One of the great titles bestowed by the church upon Mary Magdalene is “the apostle to the apostles.” According to the Gospel of John, Mary, still sorrowful on “the first day of the week” (John 20:1), is the privileged recipient of the first Easter message that Jesus’ body no longer rests in the tomb…
A Word to Enkindle: Remember, do not look back in the midst of the desert
Israel became a nation in the barren desert of the Sinai Peninsula. The formative experience of fleeing Egypt united them as a band of refugee-brothers, but nostalgia for their enslaved lives quickly overruns them at the first sign of hunger and thirst…