Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, August 14, 2011 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28 The processional hymn for our wedding nine years ago was “Gather...
Read MoreMy friend, John Donaghy, who used to do campus ministry at Iowa State University and now is a lay missioner with the Catholic diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, reminds us that on this date in 1943 “Blessed Franz...
Read MoreReading the newspaper one day late as I normally do, only this morning did I run across Michael Gerson’s op-ed in the Sunday paper commenting on the prominence of religious appeals in the recent public debate over the...
Read MoreAccording to the Vatican II document, Gaudium et spes: “With these truths in mind, this most holy synod makes its own the condemnations of total wars already pronounced by recent popes, and issues the following declaration: Any...
Read MoreThe conclusion of the trial convicting polygamist Warren Jeffs of sexually assaulting two young women has brought some closure to this troubling story about the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day...
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