I’m encouraged by the news that Panera Foundation will be opening more of its “suggested donations” stores. Pay-as-you-can cafes appear to be a new trend, launched by Denise Cerreta of One World Everybody Eats...
Read MoreWhen I was in graduate school, I made the off hand comment to my roommate about how McDonald’s runs Filet-o-Fish specials every year during Lent. My roommate, a life long Methodist, was totally surprised by this revelation. He...
Read MoreWe have decided to add a regular feature to this blog, at least through the end of this election year: Faithful Citizenship Fridays. “Faithful Citizenship” refers to the document the USCCB approved in 2007, and...
Read MoreExodus 20:1-17 Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11 1 Corinthians 1:22-25 John 2:13-25 The thing that normally attracts people’s attention about the Gospel reading for this Sunday is the fact that Jesus appears to act in anger. He appears in...
Read MoreAs a Catholic moral theologian, I must confess that the principle of subsidiarity is perhaps one of the most crucial and most misunderstood in Catholic social teaching. According to the principle of subsidiarity, decisions...
Read MoreThere is a new (or at least new to me) endeavor by younger Jesuits called The Jesuit Post. This fantastic new website has a wide range of reflections relating to lent, popular culture, even teaching middle schoolers to practice...
Read MoreSo often, we get seduced into imagining that the moral life centers on big, dramatic life-or-death decisions. Of course, when we are faced with them, those are crucial and important. But so much of the moral life passes us by...
Read MoreLast week, presidential candidate Rick Santorum defended his previous statement that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy’s famous speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960. Santorum referenced the...
Read MoreAll of us who contribute to this blog, along with a fair number of our readers, are also teachers. It can be difficult to discuss the church’s teachings on economic justice to college students who are often from more...
Read MoreSecond Sunday of Lent March 4, 2012 Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Ps 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19; Rom 8:31b-34; Mk 9:2-10 The binding of Isaac has been the source of centuries of moral consternation. And as we continue our Lenten...
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