2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14 Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15 2 Thes 2:16-3:5 Lk 20:27-38 Our readings for this week are fitting for this month of the Holy Souls. In my conversations over the years with my husband, who is not Catholic, I have come to...
Read MoreThe cover story in the most recent Economist turns a critical eye to the sloppy standards of contemporary scientific scholarship. “Modern scientists are doing too much trusting and not enough verifying,” the article...
Read More2 Kgs 5:14-17 Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 2 Tm 2:8-13 Lk 17:11-19 Our Old Testament and Gospel readings this weeks both relate how an outsider (a non-Jew) is brought to worship the true God of Israel through a miraculous healing. The...
Read MoreToday is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron of ecology and traditionally associated with a strikingly high regard of non-human creation. How fitting it would have been to celebrate with a freshly minted copy of our own...
Read MoreEx 32:7-11, 13-14 Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19 1 Tm 1:12-17 Lk 15:1-32 In their excellent discussion of sin and conversion in The Christian Moral Life, Pat Lamoureux and Pual Wadell quite aptly sum up the basic problem of human...
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