The following entry is cross-posted with the Patheos.com book club discussion on the text. Holy Week is an appropriate time to turn our minds and hearts to the contemplation of the end of all things – to eschatology – as Matthew...
Read MoreWesley Smith, whose ‘Secondhand Smoke’ blog is important reading (especially for those interested in bioethics), gets a lot right–especially when it comes to his concern about euthanasia. His books on that...
Read MoreIn Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, the US Bishops state: In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation. This obligation is rooted in our...
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The United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez have been in the news a lot in the...
Read MoreIs 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9,17-18,19-20,23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 – 15:47 Following each Palm Sunday, I find my thoughts and prayer lingering on one moment in the narrative of the Passion. Some years I am at the tomb with the stone...
Read MoreA recent piece at National Review Online by Dorinda Borlee, Nicholas Nikas and Mark Rienzi brings into the light a very alarming new wrinkle associated with the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable...
Read MorePope Benedict XVI, upon his arrival in Mexico [English links from Vatican transcript] on Friday,said that his goal in this apostolic visit was to encourage Mexican Catholics to “revitalize their faith” so that they...
Read MoreEver since I read Paolo Coehlo’s The Pilgrimage, I have been fascinated by the Camino de Santiago de Compostella (The Way of St James) pilgrimage in Spain. This allure of a 500 mile walk through the Pyrenees and Spain has only...
Read MoreI committed to this post a while ago, and I thought I would likely write a bit about the joy of sharing a project such as this with a community of friends and fellow-scholars, or perhaps about some of the founding hopes and...
Read MoreWhen my friends from New Wineskins first started talking about a Catholic Moral Theology blog a few summers ago, I tried to talk them out of it. I remember a Sunday morning conversation at the end of a stimulating weekend. We...
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