Month: August 2011

A Prayer for Students and Teachers

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 121 Is 22:19-23 Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6, 8 Rom 11:33-36 Mt 16:13-20 August is a special time of year for those involved in university life. Summer is coming to an end. Students are...

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Underestimating Social Media

One has only to look at the varying roles that Facebook and Twitter played in the protests that spread across Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya to recognize the power of social media sites. The rioters in Britain also used these...

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Using Children as Sex Objects

Though it appears few are paying attention (and perhaps understandably so), the Church continues to claim to anyone who will listen that many of our sexual practices today not only turn our partners into objects of our pleasure...

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