Bush 41: The End of an Era
Americans, perhaps inevitably, invest the figures who occupy the presidency with a symbolic or...
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1st Sunday of Advent: Waiting for Renewal
Readings: Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25; 1 Thess 3:12-4:2; Lk 21: 25-28, 34-36 The first Sunday of Advent...
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The Value of Rest in a Season of Busy
There is a general sense of agreement, or at least a culturally enshrined assumption, that the...
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Coming to terms with the weakness of truth (Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe)
Readings: Daniel 7:13-14; Psalm 93:1-2, 5; Revelation 1:5-8; John 18:33b-37 The “ruler...
Read MorePraise and Thanksgiving
This week we celebrate that great American holiday of Thanksgiving. Perhaps the details of the day – family, food, football – have come to obscure the name and meaning behind Thanksgiving. While not a Catholic...
Read MoreReflections on a Terminal Diagnosis
I have a brain tumor. Actually two. I was diagnosed last year five days before Christmas. My youngest son was not yet a month old. And my tumors are terminal. Unless something else kills me, my tumors will. I don’t know when. It...
Read MoreHelp Us See More Clearly
Possibly the most important work in Christian ethics in the last decade has been Oliver O’Donovan’s trilogy of books subtitled “ethics as theology.” In researching for an essay I am writing on the importance of the final...
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Pastoral Perspectives: Preparing for Aging Parents (and Where are the Books on This?)
Frequent guest blogger, Father Satish Joseph, offers the following thoughts about aging parents:...
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Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
DT 6:2-6; HEB 7:23-28; MK 12:28B-34 Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You...
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The Tree of Life and the Wisdom of Vigiling
In every sphere, there is a way to vigil: to remain awake, to resist violence and hatred, and to move toward truth and love. In vigil, we do that attentively, we do it together, we do it in prayer and in patient hope.
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