Faith Seeking Understanding

Franciscan Fr. Daniel P. Horan writes about politics, culture and theology in this column that appears twice a month.

Integral ecology requires a larger 'seamless garment'

Feb 19, 2020

Faith Seeking Understanding: A true sense of interconnectedness suggests that one cannot merely select a single ethical issue in isolation as if it were unrelated to all others.

Commemorating Black History Month as a white Catholic

by Daniel P. Horan

Feb 5, 2020

Faith Seeking Understanding: While Black History Month is a time for people of African descent to celebrate their legacy, it offers a particular challenge and opportunity for white people like me.

The ecological significance of the Eucharist

by Daniel P. Horan

Jan 22, 2020

Faith Seeking Understanding: The Eucharist is not simply a means by which humanity receives the sacramental presence of Christ, it is the privileged place where God is now present to our world as part of that world.

New year, new decade and a new chance for church renewal

by Daniel P. Horan

Jan 8, 2020

Faith Seeking Understanding: I thought about a column that imagined an optimistic decade ahead, and I wondered what it might look like to engage in a similar imaginative exercise for the church.

Columns ›

Integral ecology requires a larger 'seamless garment'

Commemorating Black History Month as a white Catholic

The ecological significance of the Eucharist

New year, new decade and a new chance for church renewal

Christmas is for all God's creatures

Intellectual and spiritual blindness may be our greatest cultural problem

Rehabilitate Thanksgiving and renew the practice of gratitude

Synodality isn't just an option, it's the only way to be church

St. John Henry Newman would approve of synod's final document

In his letter on racism, Seitz gets right what US bishops got wrong

The decolonial and intercultural hopes of the pan-Amazon synod

Beyond the 'birdbath industrial complex' is the radical St. Francis of Assisi

Climate change is the most important life issue today

Sr. Helen Prejean's 'River of Fire' a wellspring of wisdom for all Christians

America is addicted to guns, and we're in denial

The church needs to be better at helping us be better Christians

Bishops and priests need more range

What's the path to true dialogue about gender in the church?

Confronting the 'monarchy of fear' with spiritual resistance

Going on pilgrimage, religious or secular, is important

Thomas Merton's counsel for Donald Trump (and the rest of us)

M. Shawn Copeland's retirement is a time to celebrate this friend of God

We should preach about the death penalty on Good Friday

The problematic rise of armchair theologians

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