“For our sakes God made him who did not know sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the very holiness of God” (2 Cor 5:21).
Some Christians reading these words over the last few centuries have…

March 15th, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
“For our sakes God made him who did not know sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the very holiness of God” (2 Cor 5:21).
Some Christians reading these words over the last few centuries have…
March 1st, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
Appearances can be deceiving. After all, Jesus was just another Galilean. His hands were the rough hands of a workman. People in Nazareth knew his mother. Some even remembered the man they thought was his dad.
Yet when Jesus went…
February 22nd, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
In the English language, the special season before Easter is called “Lent.” The word comes from the “lengthening” of daylight hours as we progress from the darkness of winter to the new light of spring. But other languages, such as…
February 6th, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
Peter. Paul. Isaiah. Frodo Baggins. They have more in common than meets the eye.
Of course there are differences, too. Peter is a small business man, trying to wring a living for his family out of a lake in Hicksville. …
January 25th, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
There is a myth that we must lay to rest, once and for all: Protestants are all about the Bible, while Catholics are all about the Sacraments. While I can’t speak for my Protestant brethren, I can say…
January 11th, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
At first glance, the scene makes little sense. John’s strident call to repentance provokes an overwhelming response. People of all shapes and sizes flock to him in the wilderness. They are baptized in the Jordan as a sign of repentance…
January 2nd, 2010 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
The mother of the messiah has been called many things in the last 2000 years — the Virgin Mary, Our Lady, the Blessed Mother. But call her “the Mother of God” and you’ll see some Christians squirm.
This is nothing…
December 28th, 2009 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
Every year right after Christmas, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family. There is an important reason for this. It’s easy to think the “incarnation” means God took on a human body, that he appeared in human…
December 14th, 2009 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
On the third Sunday of Advent, the penitential purple of the season changes to rose and we celebrate “Gaudete” or “Rejoice!” Sunday. “Shout for joy, daughter of Zion” says Zephaniah. “Draw water joyfully from the font of salvation,”…
December 7th, 2009 by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
Faith, hope, and love. St. Paul, in I Corinthians 13:13, says these three are the bottom line. They are called the theological virtues, the qualities that make us most like God.
We hear plenty about faith and love. But when…