Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 45:1,4-6; Ps 96: 1,3,4-5,7-8,9-10; 1 Thes 1:1-5b; Mt 22: 15-21 “Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” (Mt 22:17) This episode from Matthew’s gospel is a familiar one...
Read MoreThere were two state-sanctioned executions in the United States on September 21, 2011. In Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis, an African American man, was put to death for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. In...
Read MoreIn Chapter 4 of his Rule for the monastic life, St. Benedict writes a list of the “Instruments of Good Works,” a simple yet beautiful list of 61 actions and attitudes that foster and sustain a life in pursuit of...
Read MoreSaturday 10/15 was the first anniversary of the ‘Open Hearts, Open Minds’ Princeton Abortion Conference–a historic gathering that brought a wildly diverse group of people together to find new ways to think and...
Read MoreThis past weekend, the Montana Catholic Conference hosted a two-day “Affirming the Culture of Life Conference.” In light of Jana Bennett’s recent post on the death penalty and abortion, this conference was a...
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