Bioedge and others reported last week that four doctors in an Indian public hospital performed 106 sterilization operations in a single day, leaving patients unattended in a nearby field to recover due to a lack of available...
Read MoreThis post is co-authored with Thomas M. Hart, O.S.B., Assistant to the President for Mission, Saint Vincent College. The prayers throughout Lent exhort us to a three-fold practice: prayer, fasting, and works of mercy. We...
Read MoreAs I walked off the plane and into Khartoum Airport, I looked around to see if the other women were covering their heads. I had a scarf ready; I did not want to stand out any more than I automatically did. From Ireland and Costa...
Read MoreMarch 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...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post from Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman, who teaches moral theology at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University. This post’s title is a catchy line from one of several flashy advertisements...
Read MoreLectionary #30 Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 Luke 13:1-9 Repent! It is a word that is out of fashion. It is a command that conjures images of a crazy person wearing a sandwich board sign that reads...
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