NPR’s morning report aired the first part of a two-part series, “Making it in the U.S.: More than Just Hard Work” offers statistics and the powerful narrative of two California women, Dametra Williams and...
Read MoreIsaiah 55:6-9 Psalm 145 Philippians 1:20-24, 27 Matthew 20:1-16 Each of the readings for this coming Sunday’s lectionary invite us in a distinctive manner to ponder the idea that in our journey of seeking the face of God,...
Read MoreOn Sunday, I read and watched the memorials about 9/11, and my wife and I talked about them throughout the day. We talked about it because we were both in Washington, DC that day. She was teaching high school. I was sitting...
Read MoreAs I watched in silence yesterday as Presidents Obama and Bush walked with their wives up to the new 9/11 memorial, and honored a moment of silence and prayer, I could not help but be struck by the story that the physical...
Read MoreI had not planned on doing anything special on 9/11, but the substitute organist at the 5pm mass I cantored last night mentioned that she was playing at an interfaith service in Baker Park, Frederick’s splendid...
Read MoreWell, it is ten years after 9/11/01, but like many Notre Dame fans, though I’m trying to watch the news coverage, I can’t stop thinking about last night’s loss to Michigan. I’m pretty hard core when it...
Read More“This is the most difficult question in all of moral theology.” So says Richard McCormick about the distinction and application of the principle of cooperation in evil. In Part I, I suggested that the eating of “cruelty meat,”...
Read More“No, no. That’s not what that is there for.” So exclaim Nim’s teachers as the adolescent Chimp tries *ahem* pleasure himself with a cat. It’s a common expression, something we tell our kids all the...
Read MoreSunday, September 11, 2011 – Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:30 – 28:7; Ps 103:1-2,3-4,9-10,11-12; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18: 21-35 “Can anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the LORD?” (Sir...
Read MoreOver at my other blogging “home” at the journal Political Theology’s There Is Power in the Blog, I posted the following brief reflection as the first contribution to a series this week on Ten Years after 9/11:...
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