Author: Beth Haile

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Gn 18:1-10a Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 Col 1:24-28 Lk 10:38-42 Are you a Martha or a Mary? We tend to see this story as an either/or typology about the active and contemplative life. Jesus’ admonition to Martha, “Mary has...

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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lectionary 96 Zec 12:10-11; 13:1 Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Gal 3:26-29 Lk 9:18-24 The prosperity gospel, popularized by preachers like Joel Osteen and Bruce Wilkinson, teaches that Christianity is the ticket to physical health and...

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RIP Edmund Pellegrino, MD

The field of bioethics is a little poorer this week as it mourns the death of Edmund Pellegrino, MD who died on June 13th at the age of 92. Dr. Pellegrino served as the president of the Catholic University of America from 1978...

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