You shall not covet . . . anything that is your neighbor’s. . . . You shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your...
Read MoreCatechism Commentary: The Ninth Commandment Julie Hanlon Rubio, St. Louis University The ninth commandment seems redundant, sexist, trivial, and maybe even impossible. Why, “Do not covet your neighbor’s wife,” when we already...
Read MoreThe Nativity of the Lord – Christmas December 25, 2011 Vigil Mass: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5,16-17,27,29; Acts 13:16-17,22-25; Mt 1:1-25 or Mt 1:18-25 Mass at Midnight: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-2,2-3,11-12,13; Ti 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Mass...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post by Jacaranda Turvey of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Chester University, United Kingdom. She is writing a thesis on the following topic (supervised by David Clough) and can be...
Read MoreAnyone who follows the messages from the USCCB or Catholics in politics will likely be aware that a number of statements have come out recently regarding unemployment, justice for immigrants, the budget, and the deliberations...
Read MoreDecember 12 marked the Feast of Our Lady of Guadeloupe and 33 Hispanic and Latino Bishops around the United States took this opportunity to release a joint letter on immigration. It will surprise none of our readers that...
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines filed for bankruptcy reorganization. With this move, American became the last of the legacy carriers (companies who helped pioneer American air travel and existed prior...
Read MoreAs this map indicates, while we speak of human rights as universal (as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948) we are not all at equal risk for having our human rights violated. Human Rights Risk...
Read MoreKen Murray, an MD and Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC, informs us that non-physicians do not die like physicians. To make things better, however, we should consider doing so: Years ago, Charlie, a highly...
Read More2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16 Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 In his classic book, The Politics of Jesus (which the evangelical magazine Christianity Today once listed as #5–right after works by C.S....
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