The Meal of the Mass: Food for the Journey to Jerusalem and Beyond
Reading Time: 6 minutes Ben Duphiney, The Catholic University of America The Journey to Emmaus (24:13-35) is a signature story in the Gospel of Luke. Merely as a story itself, it is iconic and a perfect example of hospitality, kindness, and love; connected to the entire gospel, it speaks volumes towards the Lucan image of Christ, the universal savior. […]
Christ as Light in the Darkness
Reading Time: 5 minutes The following was a college essay written by Ben Duphiney. It has been edited and approved by Christopher Centrella. If you have a Theology essay that you would like published that received a grade of an A- or higher, please be sure to contact us. Out of pure love, God breathed forth his spirit and […]
A Little Taste of Heaven
Reading Time: 5 minutes The following was a college essay written by Maureen Francois. It has been edited and approved by Ariel Hobbs. If you have a Theology essay that you would like published that received a grade of an A- or higher, please be sure to contact us. By Maureen Francois, Benedictine College The reflections found in the […]
The Eucharist and John 6: A Former Protestant’s Perspective
Reading Time: 11 minutes By Jack Morgan, Auburn University One of the dividing issues between Protestants and Catholics consists in what we believe takes place during the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Catholics — and all other ancient Christian sects for that matter — have always upheld belief in the “Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.” That is, […]
Necessarily Infinite, Perfectly Simple
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Samuel D. Samson, UT Austin As fallen beings living in a fallen world, we do not possess the capacity to fully understand God’s nature and attributes. Therefore, until we attain the Beatific Vision and sans miraculous revelation, our comprehension of God will be necessarily limited. Even St. Thomas Aquinas, emerging from one such ecstatic […]
Testimony: Why I am Catholic
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Ben Daly Labelle, University of Rhode Island Why am I Catholic? The easy answer would be that I was raised that way and that it is easy to make Catholicism a cultural identity. But it goes deeper than that. At some point in every Catholic’s life, they have to decide whether to make this […]
Eucharist: Source and Summit
Reading Time: 4 minutes Written by Nick Jones (University of Rhode Island) | Edited by Ariel Hobbs As I write, the Church finds herself in the midst of celebrating the great feast of Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ. Naturally, this feast invites us to a deeper, more recollected contemplation of the Most Holy Eucharist. It is very easy […]
Blessed Carlo Acutis: Meet the Teen Who Could become the First Millennial Saint
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Christopher Centrella, Franciscan University Alleluia! Alleluia! “Death is defeated! The King is alive!” Just this past Saturday, October 10, the Holy Father beatified the first millennial, Blessed Carlo Acutis. Carlo was a regular teenager in so many ways—he enjoyed playing video games, was a computer genius, and loved hanging out with friends. But above […]
To Receive or not to Receive: Eucharist in the Pandemic
Reading Time: 10 minutes The opinions expressed by the below two authors do not necessarily represent those of the Clarifying Catholicism writing staff. We encourage healthy discourse in the comments below! Whenever a major and divisive crisis pops up, we at Clarifying Catholicism enjoy encouraging our writers to engage in point-counterpoint discussions of them. Our last article was on […]
The Trinity: Water, Ice, and Gas
Reading Time: 2 minutes The following was a college essay written by Joseph Giessuebel. It has been edited and approved by GraceAnne Sullivan. If you have a Theology essay that you would like published that received a grade of an A- or higher, please be sure to contact us. By Joseph Giessuebel, Catholic University of America In De Trinitate, Augustine […]
