Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 45:1,4-6; Ps 96: 1,3,4-5,7-8,9-10; 1 Thes 1:1-5b; Mt 22: 15-21 “Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” (Mt 22:17) This episode from Matthew’s gospel is a familiar one...
Read MoreThere were two state-sanctioned executions in the United States on September 21, 2011. In Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis, an African American man, was put to death for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. In...
Read MoreIn Chapter 4 of his Rule for the monastic life, St. Benedict writes a list of the “Instruments of Good Works,” a simple yet beautiful list of 61 actions and attitudes that foster and sustain a life in pursuit of...
Read MoreSaturday 10/15 was the first anniversary of the ‘Open Hearts, Open Minds’ Princeton Abortion Conference–a historic gathering that brought a wildly diverse group of people together to find new ways to think and...
Read MoreThis past weekend, the Montana Catholic Conference hosted a two-day “Affirming the Culture of Life Conference.” In light of Jana Bennett’s recent post on the death penalty and abortion, this conference was a...
Read More***NOTE: This roundtable will include posts by multiple Catholicmoraltheology bloggers. Please check back for additions to the body of the text. Recent discussions of issues like capital punishment have raised what has become a...
Read MoreGuest musings by MT Dávila, Andover Newton Theological School “Neither individuals nor nations should regard the possession of more and more goods as the ultimate objective. Every kind of progress is a two-edged sword. It is...
Read MoreMonths ago, I posted on the worsening and crisis conditions at the Dadaab refugee camp on the border between Somalia and Kenya. The famine ravaging East Africa is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Back in August,...
Read More28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 25:6-10a Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 Phil 4:12-14, 19-20 Mt 22:1-14 These readings, first of all, emphasize God’s gracious invitation to all people to “live in the house of the...
Read MoreGiven all the recent attention to the death penalty here at our site (and other places around the web, of course!), and the recent extended lesson on the concept of “cooperation with evil” that John Berkman and...
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