I hope that title got your attention. I also hope that we can laugh about it a little, and also talk about how serious it is. I found myself today fondly recalling the hilarious description in Growing Up Catholic of the moral perils of going to the ballpark on a Friday. The authors walk through the incident in hilarious detail about what Read more
Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29; 1 Jn 3:1-2; Jn 10:11-18 “See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God.” In this week’s readings, we find some powerful images of our relationship to God. John’s Gospel speaks of the sheep and the good shepherd while Read more
Coadjutor Bishop Cirilo Flores of the Diocese of San Diego published a statement in the San Diego Union Tribune Today. His op-ed, entitled, “Death Penalty Is Not Justice,” explains that Catholic bishops oppose the death penalty because it is inconsistent with the belief that human life is sacred, it is too expensive, it does not provide closure to victims’ families, and there Read more
I thought it more than a little strange when one of my teachers at Notre Dame confessed that she regularly read the obituaries in the local newspaper, often before anything else. It was an indulgence in her “maudlin Irish demeanor,” she said. Well, now I find myself regularly giving way to the same indulgence, eagerly scanning the Scranton Times for interesting or Read more
Micheal Sean Winters has directed us to a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute on the Millennials. In part because these are the students we teach, there is a treasure-trove of information for us in the report. But I want to briefly direct attention to this generation’s “magenta” trend–as it continues to dramatically fail our political culture’s red-state/blue-state binary. For Read more
Abortion. Illegal immigration. I think a knee jerk reaction with these two highly volatile issues in the upcoming US election is to categorize them as: Abortion: Catholic position = Pro-life = Conservative = Republican Illegal immigration: Catholic position = dignity and worker’s rights for all = Liberal = Democrat In today’s political climate, most issues seem to map out in this way, Read more
There has been a lot of discussion this week about the morality of the Ryan Budget. Since Paul Ryan’s statement on subsidiarity, the media and blogs have been full of posts either supporting or correcting Paul Ryan’s use of Catholic social teaching. (Lest anyone be unsure, I completely disagree with Ryan’s use of Catholic social teaching and examined the question of subsidiarity Read more
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. Their mission statement succinctly describes their work: The purpose of the conference shall be to promote a developing understanding and living of religious life by: assisting its members personally and communally to carry out more collaboratively their service of leadership Read more
It isn’t every day that one gets to be in the presence of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, but I was privileged to have this experience today. In the program book for today’s talk, “Cultivating Peace and Justice,” which is part of the Compassion Without Borders Symposium in San Diego, I learned that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the Read more
is not to be found in the arguments (bickering, perhaps?) of online groups in the US during election season. It is rather to be found in the fact that Westerners simply overlook violence done to Christians outside that context. John Allen suggests that we in the West have a particular set of blinders, partly born of the sense that Christianity is always necessarily 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
