Lord Jesus, heal our indifference, and inspire us to welcome these strangers as valuable members of your one human family, so that on the Day of Judgment we may gladly hear you say, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
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When the Church Tears Down Its Own Statues
I was writing the umpteenth so-called surreal canon defense, when my friend, Vik van Brantegem kindly sent me the “Vademecum’ edited by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.“I don’t see many new things” someone – among today’s many commentators -said to me. “There weren’t supposed to be”, I…
Celebrating Holy Week
In Catholic Social Teaching there are two general approaches to the morality of war: “Pacifism” that opposes all war; and the “Just War Tradition” that provides criteria for determining if a specific war can be morally justified or not.
Wisdom Wednesday | April 10th
Welcome to Wisdom Wednesday with a warning: Some strong opinions are expressed today. In identifying opinion as opinion, we also identify who is offering the opinion.