Daniel P. Horan

Faith Seeking Understanding: What is starkly missing from these bishops' statements and similar transphobic remarks by church leaders in recent years is any encounter with transgender persons themselves.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Whatever the cause of some peoples' refusal to accept the truth, persisting down the path of inaction, the new climate report offers those with "eyes to see and ears to hear" a grim reality check.

Faith Seeking Understanding: In their book Seeing Differently, three Anglican Franciscans return to the roots of the spiritual tradition of St. Francis to recover a vision of creation that is grounded in the Gospel.

Faith Seeking Understanding: The indifference millions of men and women display toward climate change and its disastrous consequences for our fellow human beings is at the core of what I'm calling a spiritual crisis.

Faith Seeking Understanding: As U.S. bishops imprudently forged ahead with a document on Communion ostensibly targeting Biden, I returned to some of Merton's writings on ecclesial and social crises of the mid-1960s.

Faith Seeking Understanding: Church leaders and self-identified Christians are largely responsible for anti-LGBTQ violence in Ghana, given the population's largely Christian makeup. But this is also a disturbingly Catholic problem that the global church must face.

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.

Listen: In this episode, hosts Heidi, Father Daniel and David discuss the first hundred days of the Biden presidency — and the reactions from some Catholic quarters. They also look at factors influencing some Catholics to leave the church.

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

Listen: In this episode, hosts Father Daniel and David talk about anti-transgender bills introduced in state legislatures and the way the free exercise clause is being interpreted. Also, it's the 51st Earth Day celebration April 22.

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.

Listen: In this episode, hosts Heidi, Father Daniel and David talk about the new Georgia voting laws and the Derek Chauvin trial. Then, they imagine the Catholic Church of the post-pandemic era.

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.

Listen: In this episode, hosts Heidi, Father Daniel and David discuss the recent document on LGBTQ blessings from the Vatican, domestic terrorism in Atlanta, and the governor of New York.

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.

Listen: This episode focuses on the strange path to COVID-19 relief, the conflicting messages of the bishops regarding vaccines and the recent papal visit to Iraq.

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.

Listen: In this episode, hosts talk about the recent effects of winter storms on Texas and the re-establishment of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships by the Biden administration. Plus, a discussion with Jesuit Fr. Jim McDermott.

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?