Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist and founder of Partners in Health, identifies what he calls the epidemiological insight – diseases make a preferential option for the poor; thus, healthcare workers must as well....
Read MoreAlthough it is a little late in the day to post this, today is the feast day of St. Damian Molokai, a Belgian priest of the Sacred Hearts Fathers who volunteered to be sent to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1873 to care for the lepers...
Read MoreWith all the talk about violence going on elsewhere in the world, perhaps in the spirit of intellectual honesty (and avoidance of rank hypocrisy) it is prudent to turn inward and look at how violence is part our own lives. More...
Read MoreAs more details about the killing of Osama Bin Laden are released, one of the questions that has surfaced is whether the CIA relied on intelligence resulting from the torture of terrorist suspects held in detention facilities...
Read MoreAs I have stated on this website and elsewhere, Catholic social teaching advocates unequivocally the needs of the poor and vulnerable take priority over the wants of the rich. I have also argued that the budget is not only a...
Read MoreDefining death is no mere academic exercise. At least if one accepts that one must be dead in order to be cut open and have organs taken from one’s body, it is a very serious and practical matter of life and death not only...
Read MoreAs we enter the month of May, we enter the season of college graduation–that season of final exams, grading, commencement invitations, and the inevitable round of conversations regarding the value of a college degree. Many...
Read MoreThe National Catholic Reporter posted a story today (via Cindy Wooden of CNS) about the removal of Bishop William Morris of the Diocese of Toowoomba, Australia. This follows an apostolic visitation by Archbishop Chaput of the...
Read MoreThird Sunday of Easter – May 8, 2011 Acts 2:14,22-33 ~ Ps 16:1-2,5,7-11 ~ 1 Pt 1:17-21 ~ Lk 24:13-35 As we walked out of the Easter vigil mass a couple weeks ago, a friend of mine observed a car with its front fender...
Read MoreHere are just a couple scattered thoughts that have come swirling into my mind in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death: First, should we consider it anything more than a blind coincidence that this momentous attack was...
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