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Pushing the Envelope: 32nd Sunday OT
It would be easy enough to draw certain typical (and true) lessons from this week’s Gospel. We...
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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Is 53:10-11Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22Heb 4:14-16Mk 10:35-45 This Sunday’s scriptures are...
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Testing on Fetal Cell Lines: What Does the Church Teach?
Following is a guest post by Fr. Matthew Schneider, with his full bio posted at the end. This...
Read MoreGod does all things well: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
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...
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What defiles? 22nd Sunday Ordinary Time commentary
A recent study of the psychology of ritual behaviors yields some interesting insights. The authors...
Read MoreSin-talk in a time of COVID-19
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...
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America Magazine Short Take, and my Longer Take on Abortion’s Complexities
I wrote a piece recently for America Magazine in which I (lightly) go after Garry Wills’s...
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Thinking Through the Case of a Priest’s De-Anonymized Data, Part 2
In an earlier post, I looked in detail at the facts surrounding the Catholic publication The...
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Thinking Through the Case of a Priest’s De-Anonymized Data, Part 1
In a well-known episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, the character George Costanza, when his fiancée...
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Bring Your Loaves and Fishes – 17th Sunday OT
Sometimes – maybe a lot of the time – it never seems like we can do enough to solve all the...
Read MoreJustice and Peace Shall Kiss: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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:...
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Whether They Hear or Resist…
Ez 2:2-5Ps 123:1-2, 2, 3-42 Cor 12:7-10Mk 6:1-6 I have been thinking quite a bit recently –...
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