Sacrament of the Future: Eucharist in an Unfolding Universe
Robert Nicastro Editor’s Note: Robert Nicastro, Ph.D., is executive director of the Center for Christogenesis in Washington, DC, and a 2025 graduate of the doctoral program in theology at Villanova University, where his research focused on the work of twentieth century anthropologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. In this submission to Emmanuel Magazine, […]
Book Review: Guide for Celebrating The Liturgy of the Hours
BOOK REVIEW Guide for Celebrating The Liturgy of the Hours By Christopher J. Ferraro and Father Anthomy Ruff, OSB Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2019 117 pages. Price available online. Editor’s Note: Emmanuel Magazine is pleased again to offer, as it did routinely for years, reviews of books likely to be of interest to our readers. […]
Passing this Lent at the Gates of Gethsemane
Joe McCormack Editor’s Note: With Ash Wednesday just around the corner, Emmanuel Magazine is pleased to offer a short Lenten reflection by Joe McCormack, an associate of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament from Highland Heights, Ohio, and regular contributor to the Congregation’s Daily Eucharist Reflections online. McCormack was, for many years, a teacher of […]
One Jewish Boy’s Perspective on Religion and Inter-Faith Dialogue
Steven A. Levy, MD, FCAP Editor’s Note: The following reflection on the nature of religion was submitted by Dr. Steven Levy, MD, FCAP, a retired physician well-known throughout the medical community in Erie, Pennsylvania, for having served as an instructor in medical ethics at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM). A life-long Jew, Dr. […]
Christmas Thoughts on the MET’s Tiny Crib of the Infant Jesus
Christmas Thoughts on the MET’s Tiny Crib of the Infant Jesus Michael E. DeSanctis, Editor Buried somewhere in the collection of newspaper and magazine clippings I acquired during my decades of teaching both theology and art history at a Catholic university is a photo from 2001 of the federal execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, […]
Liturgical Space and Artificial Intelligence
Liturgical Space and Artificial Intelligence* Tino Grisi Tino Grisi, Ph.D., is founder of the Church for the Future Design Studio at the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), where he also lectures. Professor Grisi’s doctoral dissertation for the University of Bologna (2013) examined the ecclesiastical projects of the German modernist architect, Emil Steffann (1899-1968). For the […]
Foreward and Forward
Foreward and Forward: Rebirthing Emmanuel Magazine Michael E. DeSanctis, Editor In a recent installment of SSS Grapevine, I introduced myself as editor of the newly-launched digital version of Emmanuel Magazine. By means of the “foreward” that follows, I hope to offer both longtime readers and prospective new ones a fuller sense of my plans for […]
Introducing the New Editor of a Restored Emmanuel Magazine
By Michael E. DeSanctis, Ph.D. With great delight and popular demand from SSS religious of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament and diocesan priests internationally and our associates across the United States, we are pleased to reboot our award-winning publication, Emmanuel Magazine. This will be on our website – an online-only edition. There will be […]