28th 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...
Read MoreLast Sunday, on his visit to Germany, Pope Benedict XVI met with Catholics who are engaged in social work and social advocacy, or, as he described them, persons who “do dedicated work for the present and the future from a...
Read MoreSome of the comments I’ve been seeing around the web relating to the post made here on abolishing the death penalty, or other news stories relating to the death penalty, seem to insinuate that calling for an end to the...
Read MoreDuring this week’s UN General Assembly Debate, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States (aka. the Vatican’s Foreign Minister) focused attention on continued religious persecution of...
Read MoreFellow CMT.com contributor Emily Reimer-Barry has already given a helpful roundup of the of our meeting with the Committee on Doctrine on the intellectual tasks of the New Evangelization. Go here for her write-up including...
Read MoreTwenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 5:1–7 Psalm 80 Philippians 4:6–9 Matthew 21:33–43 Alasdair MacIntyre once remarked in a classroom lecture that (I’m roughly paraphrasing here): “the...
Read MoreJohn Berkman started this whole thing a few weeks ago by challenging us to rethink our relationship with the factory farming of non-human animals. I responded by fundamentally agreeing with his view while also detailing other...
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Read MoreI ended my last post with the phrase, “We [Christians] have so much more to offer [to political discourses]…” In reflecting upon my own words, and my own convictions, it occurs to me that it is all too easy as...
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