Last week, I participated in a couple of online discussions on why people attend church. Most church goers suggested that it was about “being renewed” and “getting filled up again” for the week. These...
Read MoreLast night I had the pleasure of attending an event at Columbia’s Heyman Center for the Humanities on Global Inequality with an all star cast: Joseph Stiglitz (nobel laureate and Columbia Professor), James K. Gailbraith...
Read MoreIn some ways, the story which prompted this post is nothing new. We have been helping sick children to die (even if one does not think of the fetus as a child) in the developed West for some time. The Groningen Protocol, which...
Read MoreBetty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is 50 and there is a lot of talk about whether we still need to read it. In the book, Janet Maslin of the New York Times writes, Friedan named “the problem with no...
Read MoreGenesis 15:5-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:-4:1 Luke 9:28b-36 … contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing that Christians do: it is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a...
Read MoreAs I was on the NYTimes reading about the new data on Plan B (in brief, use is way up), I came across this comment: Curly: The President should make the IUD free to females. The President should mandate that all girls who reach...
Read MoreCan I copyright creation? The United States Supreme Court effectively decided in 1980 that you can in fact copyright creation. In Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the court decided live organisms all count as private property to be...
Read MoreTwo apparently unrelated things have been on my mind this week. One, of course, is the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the subsequent media war we’ve all come to expect. Taking a look at the comboxes and FB feeds this...
Read MoreI was asked, on a radio program yesterday, what I thought the Pope’s legacy would be, and I said I thought he would be “the great Vatican II pope,” one of the youngest theologians who worked at the Council, who summed up all the...
Read MoreDeuteronomy 26:4-10 Psalm 91 Romans 10:8-13 Luke 4:1-13 “Become who you are!” This most memorable saying of Bl. Pope John Paul II was also one of his most enigmatic. Many have been deeply moved by it, but many have also been...
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