Triple Whammy: An Immigration, Prisoner’s Rights, and Pro-Life Case
Last week, The New York Times published an article about the case of Juana Villegas, an immigrant...
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The 1st Law of Prayer—Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sirach 35:12—14, 16—18 Psalm 34 2 Timothy 4:6—8, 16—18 Luke 18:9—14 Sometimes scriptural texts...
Read MoreDon’t Fall for Misdirection: It’s about Homelessness, Inequality, Unemployment and Poverty not the Debt
As I drove home this evening, slowly moving down the Van Wyck Highway Service Road, I watched as an older homeless man weaved through traffic begging for help. I pulled what cash I had accessible but he moved over to the next...
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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – The Virtue of Persistence
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ex 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-2,3-4,5-6, 7-8; 2 Tm 3:14-4:2; Lk 18:1-8...
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Kaveny’s “Big Chill”: Thoughts on Sex, Tenure and How it All Relates to the CTSA Report
Cathleen Kaveny has written an important essay in Commonweal called “The Big Chill:...
Read MoreCTSA to Theologians: Embrace Your Conservative Colleagues
The Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) has just released an important report from an ad hoc committee on diversity. The committee calls CTSA members to a deeper commitment to ideological diversity. For the sake of...
Read MoreDealing with Inequality and Social Limits to Growth – You Should Read This
Over at dotcommonweal, I have posted a lengthy discussion of Fred Hirsch’s The Social Limits to Growth, and the light that this 1970’s overlooked classic sheds on our acute problems of poverty and inequality. Our...
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Francis and the Communication of Faith
In just the past few weeks, Pope Francis has set the Catholic world, and a good many others,...
Read MoreToday’s MUST READ: Bishop McElroy’s “A Church for the Poor”
Over at America, Bishop Robert McElroy has a new article “A Church for the Poor” that is a must read for all followers of our blog. An Auxillary Bishop of San Francisco, Bishop McElroy draws our attention to Pope...
Read MoreTwenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kgs 5:14-17 Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 2 Tm 2:8-13 Lk 17:11-19 Our Old Testament and Gospel readings this weeks both relate how an outsider (a non-Jew) is brought to worship the true God of Israel through a miraculous healing. The...
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