Category: Current Events
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Greater and Deeper Reality is God’s Love
Reading 1:Amos 7: 12-15 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85 Reading 2: Ephesians 1:3-14 Gospel: Mark 6:...
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Reflections of a Professional Adjunct
At this year’s College Theology Society annual meeting, Steve Werner (on the far right of the...
Read MoreHow can we pray over meals truthfully?
Concerned about a future of “rubble, deserts, and refuse”? Then do your work to make change in political and economic and cultural structures in the world, and when you eat, say grace in a way that is tender, sober, full of the wonder of God’s goodness, and truthful about where the food we are eating comes from.
Read MoreRevisiting Infant Baptism
Citizenship confers on a person certain rights and responsibilities. As recent news has reminded us, a person’s citizenship is not primarily a matter of personal choice, nor a rational decision made by the individual....
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14th Sunday OT: Faith and What Blocks It
Readings: Ez 2:2-5; Ps 123:1-4; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 “He was amazed at their lack of faith.” So...
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Persons, Principles, Policies
Wow, our country is a mess. I’ve read enough of my MacIntyre and Hauerwas to have no illusions...
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On “Tender Age” Shelters, Internment, and Concentration Camps
I want to tell you a story. It is a story about a current national shame, uncertain theological...
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Faithful Citizenship and Democratic Institutions: Reflections from the CTSA for Our Political Moment
Earlier this month, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the self-described “principal association of Catholic theologians in North America,” held its annual convention in Indianapolis, IN. I had the opportunity to...
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Shady Stories
EZ 17:22-24 PS 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 2 COR 5:6-10 MK 4:26-34 For us in the northern hemisphere,...
Read MoreA Biblical Defense of Traumatizing Children
Let’s talk about Jeff Sessions’ biblical defense for the policy of separating children from their parents at the US border. It’s a bait and switch game meant to confuse Christians into tolerating an utter rejection of hospitality and blatant denial of human dignity.
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Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s Way
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1:Genesis 3:9-15 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 130:1-8 Reading...
Read MoreHoliness, Penance, and Moral Theology
Despite the constancy of the faith throughout two millennia, Christianity is always being adapted to the present age, usually with some difficulty, debate, and struggle. Catholic history presents us with so many examples of this...
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