This week is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and I wanted to make sure that it did not pass unremarked on this blog. In his encyclical Ut Unum Sint, Pope John Paul II remarked, Thus it is absolutely clear that ecumenism, the movement promoting Christian unity, is not just some sort of “appendix” which is added to the Church’s traditional Read more
Beth Haile’s recent post on Portraying Working Women Positively in the Media prodded me to finally write about what I see as a complementary problem: the depictions of men in the media. As I see it, there are roughly five different scripts—socially mediated roles for identity—that depict what a man is and, by implication, should be. Rarely do they come close to Read more
Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 The readings for this week reveal just how difficult it can be at times to look to scripture for moral guidance. In the reading from 1 Corinthians, Paul tells his hearers, “from now on, let those having wives act as not having them.” The lectionary selection follows some even trickier Read more
The Anchoress, among others, has joined ‘team Amelia’: a group of people supporting the fight of her parents to get Amelia treated just like everyone else. Here is Amelia’s mother, in her own words. It is a long piece, and you can read the whole thing on your own via the previous link, but here are some highlights: I am going to Read more
From May 30-June 3, the 7th World Meetings of Families will be held in Milan. At a symposium this week to prepare for the meeting, entitled “Such a Family for Such a Society,” Bishop Enrico Dal Covlo drew attention to the role of the media in shaping the family: “By way of a concrete example, what is the image of woman that Read more
“There must be some limit to the burden of remembering that we impose on our children and grandchildren. They have a world of their own, of which we should be less and less part.” This is one of the many phrases that has stayed with me since the Society of Christian Ethics meeting last weekend. These words appeared in Stanley Hauerwas’s presidential Read more
As an undergraduate at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, I used to run the “chapel trail” through the woods around Lake Sagatagan. On the way we would pass a statue of Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680), a native American who converted to Catholicism, and we would always pat the little dog statue at her feet on its head as we ran by. On Read more
Readings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The return to Ordinary Time offers us an opportunity to get back to the basics of the Christian journey – in this case, the fundamental task of listening for God’s voice in our lives. After all the changes in the liturgy, I suspect it will also be a relief Read more
Superb exchange going on over at dotCommonweal over a post about how certain political conservatives, like Rick Santorum or Michael Gerson, try to reconcile their Catholicism with the neoliberal paradigm. For once, even the comment thread is worth reading! I think this is an important – if not THE important – debate about Catholicism and politics in the current election. Often, the Read more
At the recent annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, I had the opportunity to be the author at a Breakfast with an Author table with seven other SCE members who foolishly committed to join me for food and conversation at 7:15AM on the last day of the conference. The topic of our discussion was my recent book, Family Ethics: Practices 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
