Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 5, 2013 Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Rev 21:10-14, 22-23; Jn 14:23-29 Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the encyclical of Pope John XXIII...
Read MorePolitics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. ...
Read MoreJust wanted to alert our readers that I have written a response to America Magazine’s new article “Just Economics” by Dr. Stacie Beck. In which I conclude: If Beck is right, then the entire project of Catholic...
Read MoreThe New Evangelization might just look like this: 7 priests on barstools at a Dave and Buster’s in Providence, Rhode Island, talking with a (sold out) crowd of 150 young adults about the faith we share. The event called...
Read MoreOn April 23 at a university public debate in Belgium entitled “Blasphemy: Offense or Freedom of Self-Expression,” four topless protesters from the FEMEN movement attacked Archbishop Andre Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels...
Read MoreI’ve been on the search for a school for my soon-to-be-school age kids in recent weeks. Kindergarten, I have come to find out (as have many parents before me), is not at all like what I did when I was five. There are no...
Read MoreActs 14:21-27 Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 Rev 21:1-5a Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 During the past year, I have become a little obsessed with Catholic “Mommy” blogs which have given me vital insight into raising my own almost-15...
Read MoreGuest Post by Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics at Fordham University. Satire has been a salve for many Americans in the past week. Witness The Onion’s rapidly re-tweeted...
Read MoreIt has been quite a week in Boston: explosions, deaths, maimings, and other injuries at the marathon; acts of heroism and pulling together in the mayhem that followed; an interfaith service that included a visit from President...
Read MoreIs there a way to give an account of phone gluttony? I have long thought we Catholics don’t pay nearly enough time to thinking through the moral importance of technology use, despite the clear injunctions in Pope John Paul...
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