Regis Martin

Regis 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. Martin is the author of a number of books, including Still Point: Loss, Longing, and Our Search for God (2012) and The Beggar's Banquet (Emmaus Road). His most recent book, published by Sophia Institute Press, is March to Martyrdom: Seven Letters on Sanctity from St. Ignatius of Antioch.

recent articles

On Sanctifying Sodomy

The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy.

Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XI

Why do we pay attention to atheists when they condescend to tell us the truth about God, which is that He does not exist? Or anything at all touching on matters of the spirit, when they make no provision for it in their system?

Fear and Wonder in the Upper Room

How many souls are there for whom salvation is less than a half-minute away! If only, that is, they allow themselves to be awakened from the sleep of sin long enough to be surprised by grace.

Where God Weeps

It is not only seemly but profoundly human for a grown man to weep in solidarity with our suffering savior, who wept in solidarity with our human suffering.

From Birth to Death to Life

The loss of everything we love to the ultimate arbiter of life – death – is ultimately what makes the Good News good.

Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part VII

Between the omnipotence of God, who holds all creation in being, and the impotence of men, who possess no claim whatsoever on being, there remains an impassible barrier which no creature may presume to breach.

Looking Toward Lent

Lent is coming upon us quickly this year! Will we sit still long enough to slow it down, or just let another one pass us by?

Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part V

There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.

Telling Our Story

Every Christian, great and small, across two millennia, in every tribe and nation, has heard the warn-out taunt about believing in fairy tales.

Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part IV

Modern scientific atheism (A.K.A. scientism) is just a dogmatic assertion that dismisses God, meaning, and purpose, reducing the universe to a mindless chaos of accidental stuff.

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