The readings for the Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas can be found here on the USCCB daily readings website. Source: Monastery Icons This post was originally written by Beth Haile on January 28, 2013 and is reprinted here in her...
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The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective. By William C. Mattison III....
Read MoreAs promised, I have posted Part 2 over at Political Theology’s There’s Power in the Blog. The Circumstance of Unmet Need: Part II on Aquinas and the Moral Evaluation of a Budget Offering examples of how...
Read MoreThe following post is also part of a Book Roundtable at patheos.com on Matthew Levering’s new book, The Betrayal of Charity. For this and other posts, please go to the Roundtable. St. John tells us that “There is no fear...
Read MoreThe gym that I have been working out at near my parents’ house, unlike my gym back at home, has a bunch of TVs constantly tuned to cable news. I have been amazed, horrified, and disturbingly fascinated by the...
Read MoreAbout 10% of women of child-bearing years, that is 6.1 million women in the U.S., suffer from infertility (the inability to get pregnant after 1 year of trying or after six months of trying for those 35 or older). For many, an...
Read MoreFederal prosecutors have issued a subpoena to my very own Boston College, ordering the school to turn over the tapes of two interviews from two former soldiers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, one of whom is still...
Read MoreThe front page of the New York Times today bears a picture of Osama bin Laden with the headline: BIN LADEN KILLED BY US FORCES IN PAKISTAN, OBAMA SAYS, DECLARING JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE. The news touched off an extraordinary...
Read MoreI teach the kids class at the Church of Christ my husband and I attend, and last Sunday, we covered the crucifixion. The kids, who are 4 and 5, have been really fascinated all through Lent with Jesus’ death, and perhaps...
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