Here is an excerpt from my recent contribution to the ‘On Faith’ section of the Washington Post: Perhaps we should focus instead on our consumerist use of resources and a growing inability to provide environmentally-safe energy. Indeed we should, but these practices are largely unique to the oil-soaked lifestyles of the middle- and upper-classes in the developed world. And in such cultures Read more
When we think of the women in this country seeking abortions, we often call to mind the image of the young single woman–possibly college-aged or even a little younger–at too delicate a stage of life to take on the responsibilities of motherhood. Turns out that the majority of abortions in this country do not fit this image. According to the Guttmacher Institute, Read more
Pope Benedict XVI offered a thoughtful statement today at the gathering of leaders of world religions (along with some agnostics) in Assisi. Over at Daniel P. Horan’s blog, Dating God, the full text is provided. As Horan sums up its key theme: “Religions must work to end violence in the world!” Four significant paragraphs in my view are: As a Christian I want to say Read more
Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10 Ps 131:1, 2, 3 1 Thes 2:7b-9, 13 Mt 23:1-12 Our Gospel for this week in Matthew 23 is a long denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, ending with Jesus prophesying the destruction of the temple. The Scribes were those who wrote legal documents and were collectively a sort of Jewish guild of intellectuals. The Pharisees, by contrast, were Read more
As an ecumenical expression of solidarity with our recent “A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty,” German Reformed theologian Jürgen Moltmann has issued the following brief statement (translated by Dr. Steffen Lösel), which I have been requested to post here at Catholicmoraltheology.com. Following his statement, I have provided a short comment. Dr. Moltmann’s Statement: The unjust killing of Troy Davis has filled the world Read more
We are kicking off the CatholicMoralTheology.com Commentary project! As we try to grow as a resource for Catholic moral theology on the web, we thought we could provide “commentaries” on major topics in Catholic moral theology as a valuable tool for students, teachers, or other interested people seeking to learn about some specific area of moral theology. Yet how to organize such Read more
The discontent with the current economy is mounting. People have moved from occupying Wall Street to almost every major city in the United States and are even spreading to countries across the globe. Broadly speaking, it comes from two sources. First are the realities about the economy. The US Census Bureau report on poverty, published in early September, captures the situation well. Read more
Dean Brackley, the Jesuit priest from New York who spent many of his later years at the UCA in El Salvador, died last week at the age of 65. When I heard the news, I was traveling with Call to Discernment in Troubled Times in my bag, along with the text of my talk, which owed a great deal to Brackley. I Read more
Exodus 22: 20-26 Psalm 18 1 Thessalonians 1: 5c-10 Matthew 22: 34-40 Oftentimes it is difficult to find one common thread that connects each of the readings for a given week, but sometimes with a little digging around it is possible to see some themes emerge. What I would like to suggest with this week’s readings is that they can all be Read more
Virtue (Part Three, Chapter One, Section One, Article Seven) William C. Mattison III, The Catholic University of America The article on “The Virtues” in Chapter One, Section One is one of the more exciting texts in the morality part (Part Three) of the Catechism. Virtue is a topic not given adequate attention in the moral manuals that served as the bedrock of Read more
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
