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Advent, Christmas, and Hospitality

Posted by Dana Dillon | Dec 11, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |

Surviving the Apocalypse: Tips from the Catholic T...

Posted by Holly Taylor Coolman | Aug 27, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |

Does Just War Theory Have a Future in Catholic Soc...

Posted by Tobias Winright | May 18, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |

Lent and Revisiting the Catholic Theologians’...

Posted by Tobias Winright | Feb 28, 2017 | Current Events | 0 |

God does all things well: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

by Maria Morrow | Sep 1, 2021 | Current Events | 0 |

Readings for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time At times, the sufferings and injustices in the world can be overwhelming. From violent conflicts to natural disasters, it’s no wonder if we sometimes feel frightened, upset, or...

What defiles? 22nd Sunday Ordinary Time commentary

by David Cloutier | Aug 27, 2021 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

A recent study of the psychology of ritual behaviors yields some interesting insights. The authors...

Sin-talk in a time of COVID-19

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Aug 24, 2021 | Current Events | 0 |

Nine years ago I wrote our blog’s commentary on “sin,” which explains official church teachings from the Catechism and the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Since then, many contributors have...

America Magazine Short Take, and my Longer Take on Abortion’s Complexities

by Jana Bennett | Aug 23, 2021 | Current Events | 0 |

I wrote a piece recently for America Magazine in which I (lightly) go after Garry Wills’s...

Thinking Through the Case of a Priest’s De-Anonymized Data, Part 2

by Matthew Shadle | Jul 25, 2021 | Current Events | 0 |

In an earlier post, I looked in detail at the facts surrounding the Catholic publication The...

Thinking Through the Case of a Priest’s De-Anonymized Data, Part 1

by Matthew Shadle | Jul 23, 2021 | Current Events | 0 |

In a well-known episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, the character George Costanza, when his fiancée...

Bring Your Loaves and Fishes – 17th Sunday OT

by David Cloutier | Jul 21, 2021 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0 |

Sometimes – maybe a lot of the time – it never seems like we can do enough to solve all the...

Justice and Peace Shall Kiss: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by Maria Morrow | Jul 7, 2021 | Current Events | 0 |

Readings for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Am 7:12-15 Responsorial Psalm Ps. 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Reading 2: Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10 Gospel: Mk 6:7-13 The Psalm for this Sunday contains familiar words:...