Tag: Transformation

  • The Eucharist and the Transformation of Politics

    Pope Francis calls politics “a lofty vocation and one of the highest forms of charity, inasmuch as it seeks the common good” (Evangelii Gaudium, §205). Indeed, it is “the field of charity at its most vast” (Fratelli Tutti,§180, quoting Pius XI). “If someone helps an elderly person cross a river,

  • Prison Ministry Transformation

    Prison Ministry Transformation By Joey Butler (UM News) – “I was in prison and you came to visit me.” — Matthew 25:36 When he was 18, Dusty Merrill decided that he wanted to go to prison. Of course, that decision was made a little easier because he could leave whenever

  • Lectio Divina’s Transformation of the Art of Reading

    As a young adult of nineteen—just a few years older than the high school students I teach—Augustine had his first conversion on his pilgrimage towards Christianity. As Augustine recounts in his Confessions, the catalyst for his first conversion was, famously, his reading of Cicero’s Hortensius. A pagan’s apologia for philosophy