By: JOHN J. FLYNN III

Graham Greene limned the interplay of sin and grace so skillfully in his novels that the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar reportedly said that Greene, a Catholic himself, had created a mystique of sin. But there was nothing venerable or attractive about sin…

By: JOHN J. FLYNN III

There are moments in life like Good Friday, so dark that the tumult of hope dies, and there is only the silence of the tomb. Perhaps only then can we rise. To suggest that darkness is the pre-condition of resurrection can seem either a hollow, mocking piety, or

By: ROBERT J. MATTHEWS

Catholics believe that Jesus Christ is “fully present” in the consecrated host and wine of the chalice – that these are not symbols of Jesus, but…

By: JOHN J. FLYNN III

Pride is blind to itself. Hence, the one in the grip of pride is unmoved to repent and reform. Though there are traces of pride in every sin, no other sin is quite so blinding, or so dangerous. And when the sin of pride infects a soul who professes the faith, the…