(NB: This is a homily given once previously ten years ago, in 2001) Lesson: Ecclesiastes 3:18-22, Psalm 104: 10-30 (selections) It is my pleasure and honor to address you on this beautiful day. It is my first opportunity...
Read MoreMany discussions about Catholic social justice use the term “subsidiarity” as code for “libertarian individualism” – it is as if “solidarity” just looks too imposing, and we need something to balance it out. So we use...
Read MoreI join other people of faith in mourning the death of Troy Davis, who was killed by lethal injection in Jackson, Georgia tonight. Davis had been convicted of the 1989 killing of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail. One of the...
Read MoreWhen I saw that sex columnist Dan Savage is going to be one of keynote speakers at an upcoming conference on sexual diversity, it reminded me that I have been wanting to write about Mark Oppenheimer’s summer New York Times...
Read MoreAfter the conclusion of the New Evangelization conference that I wrote about in a previous post, I was able to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was a fitting conclusion to a three-day...
Read MoreLast week I traveled to Washington, D.C. for a conference sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic University of America. The conference focused on the Intellectual Tasks of the New...
Read More…but rather that he should be converted and live” (Ezekiel 18:23). At a recent debate between potential presidential candidates, when Brian Williams asked Texas Governor Rick Perry about his record overseeing 234...
Read More26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ezekiel 18:25-28 Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 Phil 2:1-11 Mt 21:28-32 In my moral theology class this week, we have been studying the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is programmatic not only...
Read MoreThis is what Mark Steyn called it. Is he fair in doing so? Here are the basics of the awful story: Katrina Effert was 19 on April 13, 2005, when she secretly gave birth in her parents’ home, strangled the baby boy with...
Read MoreTwo-thirds of young adults couldn’t name a moral dilemma, says David Brooks, citing a study done on that age group by University of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith. ‘I don’t really deal with right and...
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