Daniel P. Horan

Faith Seeking Understanding: May we take time during this celebration of Pentecost not only to recall the Holy Spirit's enduring presence in human history, but to come to see more clearly the divine action of the Spirit throughout the broader community of God's creation. 

Faith Seeking Understanding: How should Christians engage with the internet and social media? The wisdom of the 800-year-old Franciscan spiritual tradition has some robust and surprising insights for our 21st century context.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Long before I was ordained a priest or became a theology professor, I was a professional photographer.

Faith Seeking Understanding: There have been constructive Catholic pastoral statements and resources, though they often do not receive the attention that the most vocal culture-warrior and transphobic church leaders garner.

Faith Seeking Understanding: The familiarity most Christians have with what each chapter of the Easter triduum emphasizes may inadvertently lead many of us to miss the powerful and timely implications of what we commemorate.

Faith Seeking Understanding - With vaccines in many of our arms and months of discernment under our belts, we should not rush to return to some mere status quo as if everything was just fine in February 2020; that includes our church.

Faith Seeking Understanding: "Ted Lasso" is a funny and heartwarming show. While there is no overt religious element in the show, it may very well be the most unwittingly Christian program on air today.

Faith Seeking Understanding: What does it mean to approach the penitential season of Lent in a time of global pandemic in which nearly everybody has experienced involuntary self-denial?

Faith Seeking Understanding: Lately I have been turning to the words of St. Óscar Romero as an oasis of authentic pastoral wisdom in the desert of American ecclesial leadership.

Faith Seeking Understanding: The government is not intended to prioritize "individual liberties" over communal flourishing, as so many right-leaning Americans wish, nor is the state intended by the church's teaching to be a hegemonic force for sectarian norms and partisan preferences.

Faith Seeking Understanding: St. Angela of Foligno was someone that women and men, lay and religious, sought out for insight — both spiritual and practical. She makes for a great wisdom figure in our own time, too.

Faith Seeking Understanding: I believe that one of the best guides for reflecting on the humanity of God is a not-too-well-known spiritual treatise by St. Bonaventure, the medieval Franciscan theologian and doctor of the church.

Faith Seeking Understanding: The incoming Biden administration is offering us a small sliver of pro-life hope when it comes to climate change, which should be supported and celebrated by Catholics.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Like so many other people, I am struggling to be grateful this Thanksgiving. I have brought to prayer these concerns, my laments, moments edging near despair.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Electing Biden and Harris is a significant starting point, but it is only the beginning of the work of healing a broken nation that has perhaps not seen such division since the end of the Civil War.

Faith Seeking Understanding: For Christians seeking to move forward toward reconciliation and peace after the 2020 election, we have to avoid cynicism, preserve memory and restore a sense of our shared humanity.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Few Catholic leaders or public figures in the United States are talking about 2020's toll on mental health. But the Australian bishops offer an incredible contribution.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Trump's obsession with being perceived as "manly" and "tough" has increased erratic behaviors and irresponsibility that is literally toxic, since it exposes others to a deadly disease.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Living like Jesus means prioritizing relationship above all else, and in many ways the Franciscan tradition has, as the pope acknowledged, shaped the focus of this social teaching.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Like priests who benefit from a large and powerful institution, police are protected by a system that treats them as a category unto themselves, shielded from criminal liability.