The 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...
Read MoreDear Kind Readers, Any who follow my posts have likely have noticed a recurring theme concerning the criminalization and marginalization of the poor. And while I do not mean to repeat myself, I cannot but raise attention to a...
Read MoreYesterday, I had a student drop by office hours to get some help on his midterm study guide. “I looked the terms you gave us up on the internet,” he explained, “but I was confused on a couple.” “You...
Read MoreTwenty-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...
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