The Roman Catholic church has its first non-European pope: Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, now to be known as Pope Francis I. He was elected the 266th successor to St. Peter and leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Wednesday after five ballots. Appearing on a balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, French Cardinal Jean-Louise Tauran introduced Pope Francis by Read more
Like many other Catholics around the world, I have been following the news of the papal conclave with great interest. But I continue to have mixed feelings about the news coverage and about the images of the Church that have become normal in news coverage of this important ecclesial event. Commentators keep emphasizing that this is what it means to be church. Read more
Pope Benedict XVI has issued an Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio on The Service of Charity (English translation on pages 13-19 of pdf) that many readers will find interesting, and some might even find troubling. John Allen of NCR reports on it here. These canonical prescriptions expand the control of the bishop over charitable organizations in his diocese and enter into force on Read more
If you close your eyes, can you imagine the 34 million people living with HIV/AIDS? Can you see their faces, hear their stories? Part of the problem with the data of statistics is that it is difficult for us to wrap our heads around numbers so big. When we think about the global AIDS pandemic, statistics are important. We need to know Read more
The University of San Diego is in the news again, and unfortunately not for very positive reasons. [Full disclosure: I teach at USD.] However some reporting has been inaccurate, and so this post will address the facts as I know them. I will make updates as I learn more and as this story continues to unfold. Professor Tina Beattie, Director of the Read more
I learned a new term yesterday when I read Nina Burleigh’s Op-Ed, “Food Porn Won’t Fill an Empty Stomach,” in the Los Angeles Times. She describes how her family is hooked on television programs starring Chef Gordon Ramsay. But she has moral qualms about it, asking if this is akin to the “food porn” that Rosalind Coward described in her 1984 book Read more
This post is part of CatholicMoralTheology.com’s commentary on The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Chapter Four, Section Six: The Principle of Solidarity. While the term “solidarity” is relatively new, emerging in the last century within the documents of Catholic social teaching (adopted from the labor movements of Europe), the idea of solidarity is well rooted in the earliest of Read more
This post is part of CatholicMoralTheology.com’s commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Part Three, Section One, Chapter One, Article Eight (nos. 1846-1876). In the Catholic tradition, sin is described as a stain or contagion, an interior disposition of selfishness, a disordered heart, a misguided will, an external act that violates a law or rule, a rejection of God, a power 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
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
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
