Though it appears few are paying attention (and perhaps understandably so), the Church continues to claim to anyone who will listen that many of our sexual practices today not only turn our partners into objects of our pleasure...
Read MoreImagine a libertarian Christianity, which urged individuals to give away as much of their property as possible to the poor, to forget about the sex lives of their neighbors and focus on their own, to pray more than politic and...
Read MoreLectionary Reflections for Sunday, August 14, 2011 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28 The processional hymn for our wedding nine years ago was “Gather...
Read MoreMy 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...
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