Here is an excerpt from my recent contribution to the ‘On Faith’ section of the Washington Post: Perhaps we should focus instead on our consumerist use of resources and a growing inability to provide...
Read MoreWhen we think of the women in this country seeking abortions, we often call to mind the image of the young single woman–possibly college-aged or even a little younger–at too delicate a stage of life to take on the...
Read MorePope Benedict XVI offered a thoughtful statement today at the gathering of leaders of world religions (along with some agnostics) in Assisi. Over at Daniel P. Horan’s blog, Dating God, the full text is provided. As Horan...
Read MoreMal 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...
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