Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), an influential Protestant theologian in the United States, greatly impacted how we think about the relationship of religion and culture.
Category: Bishop
The need for solitude
The older I get, the more comfortable I am being alone. That feeling is probably a common one because the increasing maturity of years leads to deeper self-knowledge and a confidence in our identity.
The Church and human dignity
Through the Catholic faith, God has revealed to us the mystery and meaning of our human nature. Our fundamental identity rests in our relationship with the One who created, saved, and sanctified us.
The Resurrection and its place in our lives
Matthew is the only Gospel to narrate the plot of the chief priests in Jerusalem to discredit the truth of the Resurrection of Jesus by bribing the guards at the tomb to say that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus at night. (Matthew 28: 11-15)
Embrace Holy Saturday
In celebrating the Sacred Triduum, we can easily pass over the significance of Holy Saturday. We move from the pathos of Good Friday to the joy of the Easter Vigil on Saturday night, with just a few brief hours in between.
‘It is finished’
Jesus’ final words from the Cross were: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” (Luke 23:46) and “It is finished.” (John 19:30) With this, Christ dies, handing His life over to the Father.
Satisfying Christ’s ‘thirst’
“I thirst,” Jesus said in John 19:28. Imagine how physically thirsty Jesus was on the Cross!
Statement from Bishop Hying on the ‘Synodal Way’ process from bishops in Germany
For three years, the leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany have been involved in their “Synodal Way,” a process of conversation and decisions among the bishops and laity, regarding Church doctrine and practice, which culminated recently in three days of voting on particular issues.
Rescript granting a dispensation from the law of abstinence on the Memorial of St. Patrick
Seeing that the prescripts of canons 1251 and 1253 of the Code of Canon Law, in keeping with the immemorial practice of the Church, require the faithful who have completed their fourteenth year to abstain from eating meat on every Friday of the year in the manner determined more precisely by the conference of bishops;
Behold your mother
“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother’. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” (John 19: 25-27)