To Ascend, You Must Embrace the Descent

by Gabrielle Huff | May 29, 2025 | Dominicana Journal

The Ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven stuns the human mind. It is a terrific display of the glory, grandeur, and majesty of God’s power. The eternal Son of God, having taken on the flesh of humanity, now ascends to the heavenly throne to sit at the right hand of...

Power to Rise

by Gabrielle Huff | May 27, 2025 | Dominicana Journal

Walking down a busy city street, it can be easy to let strangers pass around you without giving them a second thought. Everyone is going about their business, caught up in their daily tasks. But have you ever walked past someone who, for whatever reason, catches your...

Be a Bridge to Someone

by Gabrielle Huff | May 22, 2025 | Dominicana Journal

During these days since the election of Pope Leo XIV, I’ve been reflecting on one of his many titles: Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church (Summus Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis). It raises the question, what’s a pontiff? Pontiff comes from the Latin word pontifex....

Catholics, Conscience, and IVF

by Gabrielle Huff | May 20, 2025 | Dominicana Journal

A “sed contra” essay is to engage a cultural concern and to address it with the help of some philosophical or theological authority. Allegiance to Jesus Christ transcends all other allegiances. Something that happened during the 2024 elections should remind us of this...

All Fat is the Lord’s

by Gabrielle Huff | May 13, 2025 | Dominicana Journal

Some Christians get hats or bumper-stickers or even tattoos that simply say “John 3:16.” For some reason “Leviticus 3:16” doesn’t get much love. In that verse, we read: “All fat is the LORD’s” (Lev 3:16). Surprisingly, this verse points to what Christian joy truly...