Blessed are the Poor
A few weeks ago (the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time), the Gospel presented us with the parable of the poor man, Lazarus, and the rich man who ignored him suffering at the gate of his house. There are two...
View ArticleCatholic Social Teaching
In his 11/1/22 article, I was delighted that Father Nathaniel Dryer spoke of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. As per my own comment on Father’s article: “The Church’s authentic...
View ArticleWhat Will Be Our Legacy?
Sometime in the Future “Daddy, What’s a Statue?” “I’m sorry honey. What did you say?” “Statue. What is it?” “Spell it for me.” “S-T-A-T-U-E.” He scratched his chin thoughtfully. “Oh. Statue! Well,...
View ArticleBeing Authentic in the Struggle Against Abortion
Once again this Advent, the sermons of Jesuit Fr. Alfred Delp published in Advent of the Heart (Ignatius Press) have deeply touched and challenged me. Father Delp preached in his Munich, Germany parish...
View ArticleThe Impact of Liberation Theology is Still Being Felt
Liberation Theology never became mainstream, but it did have a number of Catholic proponents, mainly in Latin America. This essay explores the origins, proponents, opponents, and the shifting stance...
View ArticleMagadonia and The Catholic Ghetto
Something’s different now. It feels like the toothpaste is out of the tube, there’s no denying it and there’s no putting it back. The flashpoint came when journalist and Catholic layman Jack Posbiec,...
View ArticleCain, Equality, Repentance, Penance, and Redemption
Many of us have heard people argue that the lessons presented in the Bible are old fashioned and outdated, especially the Book of Genesis. The gist of the argument is that a 2,000-year-old book has...
View ArticleThe Unique “Both/And” of Catholic Social Teaching
During my freshman year in college, my assistant professor in Composition 101 once went on a seemingly random rant against what was then a relatively new political action group, the pro-life movement....
View ArticleComforting the Disturbed and Disturbing the Comfortable
Perhaps you’ve heard the saying “Jesus came to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Christian authors and speakers often use this saying to encapsulate Jesus’s revolutionary essence. It...
View ArticleLet Us Never Forget
The recent turmoil and slaughter of innocent people in the Middle East are a tragic reminder of how fragile our world is, as well as the many struggles and suffering of the Israeli people. It’s easy to...
View ArticleWe Need to Learn Forgiveness
The ancient Israelites were given a mantra by which they could steer themselves on a straight path to eternal bliss with God in heaven: “You shall love the Lord, your God with your whole heart, with...
View ArticleConfronting Two Common Pro-Abortion Perceptions
The annual March for Life and the upcoming Dobbs vs Jackson court case puts abortion front and center on many folks radar. It certainly is on mine. I have been active in pro-life for many years at...
View ArticleProfit Sharing Is an Act of Generosity
Is the company you work for one of the country’s biggest corporations? If so, does profit sharing factor into its mission? Profit sharing is that fringe benefit on top of the employees’ normal...
View ArticleDoes ‘The Common Good’ Demand Everyone Get Vaccinated?
Let’s face it, when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine there are those who are for it and those who are against it. No one can “kind of” get vaccinated. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, however, the...
View ArticleErasing Women: The Misogyny of Transgenderism
Woman has a genius all her own, which is vitally essential to both society and the Church. (Pope John Paul II, Angelus Message, July 23, 1995) Proponents of transgenderism hold that if you feel that...
View ArticleMainstream Feminism: Loving and Hating Womanhood
In 2018, Notre Dame University’s Church Life Journal published an article criticizing mainstream feminism’s twin pillars of abortion-on-demand and sexual autonomy. The author, Abigail Favale, was a...
View ArticleTime to Say Goodbye to Roe
I graduated from grade school in 1973, coinciding with the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which was to unleash unrestrained abortion across the United States. While I knew that abortion was...
View ArticleGlobalized Wealth and the End of the Sexual Revolution
Wealth made possible all the things we associate with the “Sexual Revolution”: effective contraception, abortion on demand, radical feminism, and the victory of the LGBTQI movement. However, if...
View ArticleOf Moral Leadership and Honest Abe
The question of moral leadership leads us to the example of American President Abraham Lincoln who struggled with the sufferings of a divided nation but rose above them and succeeded. But we’re not...
View ArticleAbortion in the USA
I think the United States is about to make a very serious mistake, therefore, I’m not going to pull any punches in this essay. The enemy of Jesus Christ and of mankind wants to set the United States...
View ArticleForgiving the Debt of the Poor
The Christian duty to provide for the poor and the needy is conditioned only by our own capabilities. Whether the poor person “deserves” to be poor through some moral fault is irrelevant to that duty;...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Vine Workers
Some days ago I was driving by one of those home centers when I saw a crowd of day workers anxiously waiting for someone to give them work for the day. While I had seen such groups many times in the...
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