Regis Martin

Steubenville

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Articles

Cultivating the Soil

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series on Catholic culture. How to account for the Good News of Jesus Christ? The short answer is the Holy Ghost, who, in the words of the poet Hopkins, “with warm breast and with ah! bright wings,” hovers about a broken world, and in whose fiery descent deigns to give birth to men and women annealed in Christ through the sacrament of Baptism.
From Sinner to Saint

1 week ago | theimaginativeconservative.org | Regis Martin

Like Mr. Chesterton, it would never have occurred to St. Augustine to assign blame for the world’s problems to anyone other than himself. Around the turn of the last century, a prominent London newspaper called The World put the following question to its readers, offering a prize for the best possible answer: “What’s wrong with the world?” Not the newspaper, of course, whose good health the owners took for granted. But the planet, about which there was a good deal of anxious concern.
Mary Is Our Mother - and Our Little Sister, ‘Younger Than Sin’

1 week ago | ncregister.com | Regis Martin

Bernanos’ unforgettable phrase reveals a Marian mystery at the heart of salvation history — the innocence that preceded even the Fall. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, “Immaculate Conception,” 1662 (photo: Public Domain) Blogs June 16, 2025 If asked to identify a principle central to the practice of the Christian faith, where would you begin?
Mary Is Our Mother - and Our Little Sister, ‘Younger Than Sin’

1 week ago | ewtn.co.uk | Regis Martin

Bernanos’ unforgettable phrase reveals a Marian mystery at the heart of salvation history — the innocence that preceded even the Fall. , June 16, 2025 – National Catholic RegisterIf asked to identify a principle central to the practice of the Christian faith, where would you begin? Is there something out there that leaps right off the page, a statement of belief, of behavior, without which Christianity becomes, at best, indistinguishable from the usual bromides of secular uplift?
Whither the Fall?

2 weeks ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

What is freedom for? And why is it so important that we be allowed to exercise it? Do the choices we make really matter? Ask an atheist and he’ll tell you it’s for actualizing the self in a world without God. Of course, in a godless world why would freedom matter at all? What difference are the choices we make in a world where, as Marx predicted, “everything solid melts into thin air”?
Between Luther and Pelagius

2 weeks ago | theimaginativeconservative.org | Regis Martin

When it comes to our role in salvation, St. Augustine sits squarely between the heretical extremes of Luther and Pelagius. A large mug arrived in the mail the other day, around which I counted twenty or so apothegms written by St. Augustine.
Probing the Depths of Evangelization, by Regis Martin

3 weeks ago | brownpelicanla.com | Regis Martin

As necessary as the evangelical imperative is to the life of the Church, since without it the Gospel withers and dies, it is not enough simply to proclaim the Good News. For all that the world needs to hear the message of Jesus Christ, merely doing so does not exhaust the possibilities of bringing Christ to the world. There is another way, which is not at variance with planting the Gospel seed one row at a time but entirely complementary to sharing Christ with others.
Probing the Depths of Evangelization

3 weeks ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series on Catholic culture. As necessary as the evangelical imperative is to the life of the Church, since without it the Gospel withers and dies, it is not enough simply to proclaim the Good News. For all that the world needs to hear the message of Jesus Christ, merely doing so does not exhaust the possibilities of bringing Christ to the world.
Does God Speak? by Regis Martin

1 month ago | brownpelicanla.com | Regis Martin

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, May 29, 2025Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
Does God Speak?

1 month ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

If this were day one in a course on the Theology of Christ, the first order of business would be to issue the following disclaimer, which is that not even the least glimpse into the mystery of Jesus is possible without first answering one very big question. Leave it out and the whole inquiry regarding who He was and the work He came into this world to do would simply implode on the launching pad.