March 10, 2013 Fourth Sunday of Lent Jos 5:9a, 10-12; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; 2 Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Lent marks one of the (usually) few times during the year that we connect our practices of eating with the practice of...
Read MoreIn Luke’s gospel, Jesus tells the story of the poor man Lazarus. Lazarus lived on the door step of a “rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.” Daily, this rich man had to walk out...
Read MorePaul Elie wrote a column in the New York Times on Friday suggesting that Catholics ought to consider “giv[ing] up Catholicism en masse, if only for a time.” If Benedict can resign, says Elie, so can we: For the...
Read MoreWhile the Catholic world I live in has been counting down to “sede vacante,” the DC area world I live in has clearly been transfixed by another countdown: to sequester! In case you haven’t heard, and it seems that many Americans...
Read MoreIn an obvious take-off of my post last November on what Catholics might learn from the US presidential election season, I offer the following observations on papal elections and the Church for this sede-vacante period: 1. This...
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