This post is part of CatholicMoralTheology.com’s commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Part Three, Section One, Chapter One, Article Eight (nos. 1846-1876). In the Catholic tradition, sin is described as a stain or...
Read MoreThe meme of “the 99% vs. the 1%” has now become part of our general public discourse. One can scarcely turn on the news without hearing it referenced in some way. But who are the 1%? Happily, it turns out that it...
Read MoreI had not really thought about doing a post on father’s day until late Sunday afternoon. I had returned from walking the dog with two of my three young children. (The third was at a birthday party.) As I was looking in my...
Read More(I would like to dedicate this post to my Dad, who took the time to teach me the faith and who helped me to understand and accept the love of the One from Whom his own fatherhood took its name.) The commandment to “honor your...
Read MoreAt this week’s meeting of the USCCB, the Conference voted 171 to 26 in favor of drafting a Catholic Pastoral Reflection tentatively titled: “Catholic Reflections on Work, Poverty, and a Broken Economy.” The...
Read MoreOver at National Review Online, George Weigel has put up a blog post, “Don’t Know Much about Theology…”. In it, he criticizes a number of things. I will highlight these and say a brief word about them;...
Read MoreEzekiel 17:22-24 Psalm 92 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 Ezekiel, the Psalmist, and the author of the Gospel of Mark each invoke the image of a large tree as a symbol of the flourishing of God’s presence among the...
Read MoreThis headline has to be mistake, right? After all, as an article in the Montreal Gazette reminds us, it is conventional wisdom that Canada is “more compassionate than its rough-and-tumble neighbour to the south.” ...
Read MoreThis past weekend was the 67th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America in St. Louis Missouri. As more than one of my colleagues noted jokingly, this is what it looks like to be a professional nerd –...
Read MoreLast week, Congress fell short of the 2/3 majority needed to pass the Prenatal Nondiscimination Act (PRENDA) which would have banned sex selective abortion in the United States. President Obama also voiced his opposition to the...
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