As expected, the vice-presidential debate tonight included a question on what being Catholic means to each of the candidates. What I did not expect was that the question as asked would tie Catholic faith so exclusively to...
Read MorePaul Ryan, like all of us, gets a number of things right and a number of things wrong. Let’s start with “good” Paul Ryan. Isn’t it great to have a conservative Catholic politician (or, quite frankly, a...
Read MoreIt was 50 years ago today when Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council. 50 years ago today, no one writing on this blog was born (or if they were, they were infants). For us, Vatican II is a “given.” I read various...
Read MoreWis 7:7-11 Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Heb 4:12-13 Mk 10:17-30 You may have heard of the New Evangelization, an effort within the Church to “re-propose the Gospel to those who have experienced a crisis of faith.” The...
Read MoreToday, a group of Catholic theologians and scholars released a statement raising concerns about a profound and ongoing problem: the absence of a clear understanding of Catholic Social Teaching in American political discourse....
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