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June 12, 2019

Christian Democrats. The Center-Right Post-War Years

Individual Catholics came through the Second World War in powerful positions in political parties that were,...

June 07, 2019

Pluralism, Anti-Fascism, and Fraternal Catholic Modernism, 1929-1944

In the period between the two world wars, the Catholic Church was becoming modern, accepting its place...

June 05, 2019

Anti-Communism, Human Rights, and Paternal Catholic Modernism, 1929-1944

The years from 1929 to the end of the Second World War were disastrous ones...

June 03, 2019

Medieval or Ultra-Modern: The Anti-Modern Church of the 1920’s

Part 3 in the series on Catholic Modern by James Chappel –Chapter One, Catholic Anti-modernism, 1920-1929 In...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Catholic Modernism, the Legacy of the 1930’s

A modern Church emerged in the 1930's, earlier, James Chappel holds, than often thought. Disagreements...

May 29, 2019

The Modern World in the Catholic Church

A First Look at Catholic Modern by James Chappel I have been reading and writing about the...

May 27, 2019

Memorial Day and the Liturgies of a small town in Rural Minnesota

I don’t know what it’s like in your town, but in my town in rural...

May 24, 2019

On the DOCAT, Social Justice Catechism for Youth, Part Two

A Look at Some Weakness amid Overall Strength I wrote last week in praise of...

May 22, 2019

The Eucharistic Imagination – Too Big for a Private Space

In Chile, Cavanaugh says, “It should come as no surprise that reception of the Eucharist...

May 20, 2019

Performing the Body of Christ against Torture in Chile

The Church in Chile had confined itself to matters of the soul and the spirit...

May 17, 2019

On the DOCAT, Youth Social Justice Catechism, Part One

Strong Challenges in Some Important Areas of Social Life Pleased, excited. These name my reaction...

May 15, 2019

The Mystical Body and the True Body of Christ

One of my favorite images of the Church, from before the Second Vatican Council, is...

May 13, 2019

A New Christendom Fails to Challenge the State

My last post on Chapter Three of Torture and Eucharist saw William Cavanaugh’s exposition and critique of...

May 11, 2019

Minnesota Bishops’ Integral Ecology Document Disappoints

I’ve been posting about the response of the bishops of Chile to the oppression of...

May 08, 2019

Catholic Action and the Ecclesiology of a Disappearing Church

Torture and Eucharist, Chapter 3 In the 1970’s under the cruel Pinochet regime, the Church...

May 06, 2019

Evolving Ecclesiology in Chile: COPACHI, the Vicariate and Excommunications

Torture and Eucharist, Chapter Two: The Church Learns How to be Oppressed William T. Cavanaugh’s second...

May 03, 2019

Greta Thunberg, Pope Francis agree: It’s an Emergency

“I want you to panic” about climate change -- Thunberg Donald Trump declares a state...

May 01, 2019

Torture, Neo-Liberalism and the Fragmentation of Social Bodies

William T. Cavanaugh writes about the brutal regime under Pinochet in Chile. He documents its effects on...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

Torture and Society in Pinochet’s Chile

Chapter One, Part One of Torture and Eucharist by William T. Cavanaugh Torture in Pinochet's Chile did...

April 26, 2019

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ, Introduction

It has occurred to me to wonder about Jesus’ suffering during his trial and execution....

April 24, 2019

William T. Cavanaugh, Catholic Theologian, Places Church Firmly in World

Introduction to the Theologian and his Book Torture and Eucharist William T. Cavanaugh is a Catholic...

April 23, 2019

Praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary with Scripture

Praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary on Holy Saturday was a little premature, but...

April 19, 2019

CRUCIFY HIM! — What the Jews Did or Didn’t Do on Good Friday

On Good Friday I stood with the congregation in church playing my part in the...

April 17, 2019

The Lord’s Prayer, the Prayer in the Garden, and “Lead Us Not into Temptation …”

For a long time I have wondered what to think about Pope Francis’s suggestion about changing the...

April 15, 2019

Faith that can Move Mountains … or Not

It’s Tuesday after the first “Palm Sunday,” that is, after the day Jesus paraded into Jerusalem on a donkey....

April 12, 2019

Does the Bible Mean what it Says? – Yes, if You Know the Idiom.

Thoughts about Two Readings from the Fifth Sunday of Lent I was pretty sure I...

April 10, 2019

The Misunderstood Messiah: Jesus’ Friends Don’t Get It

Mark relates several stories where Jesus is apparently successful, but the success is only apparent....

April 08, 2019

Unsuccessful Prophet: Jesus Fails to Win His Own

As one who “came to do God’s will," Jesus succeeded wonderfully. But people knew Jesus...

April 04, 2019

The Beatitudes: Blessed are We Poor

It was in the middle of a plain, or was it on a mountain? It...

April 01, 2019

The Unbrokered Kingdom and Jesus’ Wandering Ways

Looking at Jesus from a distance, an observer would notice one thing especially: he didn’t...

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