What does the resurrection of Jesus tell us about the relationship between science and faith? The answer is in the baked fish that Jesus ate in the presence of his amazed disciples. But first, a story. A few years ago, I was out fossil hunting with my wife and a group of other paleontologists in Northern Kentucky. You may not know this, but the Cincinnati area contains an incredible trove of fossils from an age of natural history called the “Ordovician Period.” My wife, Dr. Kate Bulinski, is a paleontologist who specializes in this period and the invertebrates that populated it. Fossil hunting often involves going to “road cuts,” which are places where hills or other rises have been blasted and dug out to allow a road to pass through. This exposes a wide cross section of rocks and, in some places, fossils. After a long day of visiting several of these cuts, I remember standing next...
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."