Iconologos

A testimony to the joyful hope of Pope Benedict XVI as we commend his soul to the Heavenly Father.

Is the depiction of Mary crushing the head of the serpent a pious tradition or the Scriptural heart of the Immaculate Conception?

Our physical disciplines make spiritual difference.

There are no atheists among starving pioneers.

St. John says that we are children of God, yet we are still purifying ourselves as he is pure. The saints model how to become more fully what we already are.

Paul says that God alone is immortal, yet he tells Timothy to take hold of eternal life. The apparent paradox is resolved as the transcendence of God becomes immanent in Christ.

The cross changes the story of humanity our lives

Suffering is a fact of life in the fallen world, but the radical difference of Christianity is that we learn to embrace suffering through the cross. The more we grow in holiness, the more we learn to find redemption in suffering. With this can even come, paradoxically, a deeper measure of joy. In this next ChristLife gathering for young adults, we consider how "for those who love God, all things work together for the good" (Rom 8:28), and how this even includes our suffering. Fr. Albert Scharbach is an Ordinariate priest and pastor of Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore. He's the father of nine children and recently experienced the tragic death of his oldest son. Yet even this loss proved to him that nothing is beyond the reach of God's redemption. Moreover, he will share how this is proved over and over in the trials and tribulations of daily life