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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Sometimes I think Catholic moral theology doesn’t deal enough – or seriously enough...
Read MoreThis post hopefully builds on or piggybacks Beth Haile’s “Where Do We Go From Here?” posted on November 8th here at Catholic Moral Theology. By “we” I am referring to my fellow Roman Catholics and...
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Feast of the Most Holy Trinity Lectionary #165 Deut 4:32-34, 39-40 Psalm 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20,...
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Just as Matthew’s gospel makes a connection between the Baptism of the Lord and the mission of the suffering servant, we too should make a connection between our own baptism and that same mission.
Read MoreLectionary 80 Is 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25 Ps 41:2-3, 4-5, 13-14 2 Cor 1:18-22 Mk 2:1-12 The gospel reading for this week challenges us to see faith as something more than an individual act of belief. The Catechism tells us that...
Read MoreJohn Demjanjuk was found guilty this past Thursday of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a guard at the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp. He is now 91 years old, and the alleged crimes (the case is under...
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