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,...
Read MoreBeth 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...
Read MoreJonah 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreFrom 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...
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