About Maria Cintorino

Maria Cintorino teaches at a Catholic school in Northern Virginia. She graduated from Christendom College with a B.A. in Theology and a minor in Philosophy.

Aquinas & the Theology of Grace in Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement”

By |2024-01-28T07:51:09-06:00January 27th, 2023|Categories: Art, Christianity, Culture, Heaven, St. Thomas Aquinas, Theology, Timeless Essays|

Portraying the souls of the faithful and those of the damned, “The Last Judgement” of Michelangelo serves as a powerful reminder of the theology of grace and of the importance of one’s own volition in accepting and actively cooperating with the grace which God so freely gives to men. The Last Judgement When [...]

Leadership, Hypocrisy, and Dante’s “Inferno”

By |2020-01-03T07:25:25-06:00January 2nd, 2020|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christian Living, Christianity, Culture, Religion, Virtue|

C.S. Lewis once wrote that “of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.” Reflecting on the various revelations in the Church within the past year that involved poor leadership, hypocrisy, and scandalizing behavior to say the least, it is hard not to think of the words of C.S. Lewis and recall Dante’s [...]

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