My friend, John Donaghy, who used to do campus ministry at Iowa State University and now is a lay missioner with the Catholic diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, reminds us that on this date in 1943 “Blessed Franz...
Read MoreReading the newspaper one day late as I normally do, only this morning did I run across Michael Gerson’s op-ed in the Sunday paper commenting on the prominence of religious appeals in the recent public debate over the...
Read MoreAccording to the Vatican II document, Gaudium et spes: “With these truths in mind, this most holy synod makes its own the condemnations of total wars already pronounced by recent popes, and issues the following declaration: Any...
Read MoreThe conclusion of the trial convicting polygamist Warren Jeffs of sexually assaulting two young women has brought some closure to this troubling story about the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day...
Read MoreI’m 33 years old and married, and like a lot of other American families, my partner and I are looking at our budget and trying to rethink our spending habits. I don’t think I spend a lot on personal grooming products, but I do...
Read MoreWell, somehow we did it. Despite a hard play from tea-party folks who were apparently willing to actually cut the baby in half, a last minute deal to raise the debt ceiling got done. Unfortunately, the markets haven’t...
Read MoreLectionary Reflections for August 7, 2011 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a Psalm 85:9-14 Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33 “Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of man [sic]. There he is...
Read MoreApologies for the blog silence – I did hope to post Part II yesterday, but Part II ended up being too long (as you might imagine). So this post only deals with one ‘point of collusion’ as I mentioned in Part I and is...
Read MoreI just finished my ninth New Wine, New Wineskins Symposium this past weekend. I missed the very first one because I was on my honeymoon and have not missed one since. Over the past several years, we have invited a senior...
Read MoreThe following post is also part of a Book Roundtable at patheos.com on Matthew Levering’s new book, The Betrayal of Charity. For this and other posts, please go to the Roundtable. St. John tells us that “There is no fear...
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