Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10 Ps 131:1, 2, 3 1 Thes 2:7b-9, 13 Mt 23:1-12 Our Gospel for this week in Matthew 23 is a long denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, ending with Jesus prophesying the destruction of the temple. The...
Read MoreAs an ecumenical expression of solidarity with our recent “A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty,” German Reformed theologian Jürgen Moltmann has issued the following brief statement (translated by Dr. Steffen...
Read MoreWe are kicking off the CatholicMoralTheology.com Commentary project! As we try to grow as a resource for Catholic moral theology on the web, we thought we could provide “commentaries” on major topics in Catholic...
Read MoreThe discontent with the current economy is mounting. People have moved from occupying Wall Street to almost every major city in the United States and are even spreading to countries across the globe. Broadly speaking, it comes...
Read MoreDean Brackley, the Jesuit priest from New York who spent many of his later years at the UCA in El Salvador, died last week at the age of 65. When I heard the news, I was traveling with Call to Discernment in Troubled Times in...
Read MoreExodus 22: 20-26 Psalm 18 1 Thessalonians 1: 5c-10 Matthew 22: 34-40 Oftentimes it is difficult to find one common thread that connects each of the readings for a given week, but sometimes with a little digging around it is...
Read MoreVirtue (Part Three, Chapter One, Section One, Article Seven) William C. Mattison III, The Catholic University of America The article on “The Virtues” in Chapter One, Section One is one of the more exciting texts in the morality...
Read MoreThe Passions (Part Three, Chapter One, Section One, Article Five) Jason King, Saint Vincent College An entry on the passions in the Catechism of the Catholic Church should strike the reader as a bit odd. Why would the Church...
Read MoreIn Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI writes: Economic activity cannot solve all social problems through the simple application of commercial logic. This needs to be directed towards the pursuit of the common good, for which...
Read MoreA survey of headlines this week show an ongoing controversy regarding proposed conscience provisions at the Department of Health and Human Services and that HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement is not renewing a grant to...
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