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2025-03-24T15:22:46-06:00

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Global Warming, Glaciers, and Nearly Silent Catholic Wisdom

Last updated on: March 24, 2025 at 3:22 pm By Jack Hartjes

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently released an ominous report on a lesser noted effect of global warming. Around the world, mountain glaciers are retreating, threatening the future livelihood of billions of people. Previously I wrote on another report that fourteen years ago made exactly the same point. “The Fate of Mountain Glaciers” was authored by a consortium of scientists known as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Hardly any Catholics – nor anyone else – are... Read more

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2025-03-21T12:40:36-06:00

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First-Century Palestine was Set for a Leader, Perhaps Jesus

Last updated on: March 21, 2025 at 12:40 pm By Jack Hartjes

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On Richard A. Horsley’s Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Part 2 Whatever else Jesus was, he was also a leader of a peasant movement for the renewal of Israel in opposition to both Roman occupation and the Temple cooperation with the conquerors. First-century Palestine was ripe for some such leader. This is the second post on Richard A. Horsley’s Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine. It looks at the political and economic conditions facing the little people of... Read more

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2025-02-25T06:48:43-06:00

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A Catholic Burial, Bodily Resurrection, and Funeral Expenses

Last updated on: February 25, 2025 at 6:48 am By Jack Hartjes

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How carefully must the Church guard the doctrine of bodily resurrection with rules regarding Catholic burial practices? The recent death of my wife’s mother is the occasion for this question. As her urn was sitting in our living room, the bill from the funeral home arrived. We puzzled over one item: hundreds of dollars for a “vault” to surround the urn in its eventual burial place. Why a vault? We questioned the funeral home director about the need for a... Read more

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2025-02-14T10:50:45-06:00

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Richard A. Horsley Sees Jesus in the Context of Empire

Last updated on: February 14, 2025 at 10:50 am By Jack Hartjes

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Jesus was a prophet of the renewal of Israel in opposition to Israel’s Roman occupiers and obsequious Judean puppet rulers. That’s the import of Richard A. Horsley’s work, since the 1980’s, of uncovering a historical Jesus in the political, economic, and religious context of first-century Palestine. That position and its thorough defense appear in Horsley’s 2014 book Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine. Historians, sociologists, and archaeologists have opened up previously unavailable views of life in first-century Palestine. Horsley... Read more

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2025-01-31T14:33:11-06:00

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Extreme Wealth Deplored by ‘Patriotic Millionaires’ Group

Last updated on: January 31, 2025 at 2:33 pm By Jack Hartjes

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Extreme wealth and ‘wealth extremism’ are threatening democracy and global stability. That’s the judgment of over half of the respondents to a random survey of the world’s millionaires and billionaires. The Patriotic Millionaires group conducted the survey, and Press Reader carried the story. Commenting for the article, Marlene Engelhorn said, “The superrich are buying themselves more wealth and more power while the rest of the world is living in economic fear.” She is the heiress of billionaires and of a... Read more

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2025-01-30T11:34:09-06:00

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Nick Cave and a Rocker’s ‘Faith, Hope and Carnage’

Last updated on: January 30, 2025 at 11:34 am By Jack Hartjes

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Nick Cave wants to die “inside this life … not halfway out the door in the hope of something better.” Thus an almost Christian rock star ends his long conversation with journalist Seán O’Hagan and with anyone lucky enough to have fall into his or her hands a book like Faith, Hope and Carnage. That book is the product of a series of phone interviews, lasting through most of the pandemic years. Cave’s ups and downs, tragedies and growth through... Read more

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2025-02-19T11:49:31-06:00

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Social Democracy Saves Capitalism: ‘Tyranny, Inc.,’ Part 2

Last updated on: February 19, 2025 at 11:49 am By Jack Hartjes

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Sohrab Ahmari takes a long, historical view of capitalism and finds one period in the modern era when economies worked well. In the United States, this was the 40 or so years after the Great Depression and through the 1970’s – the New Deal years. In Europe, it began during the recovery from the Second World War. Ahmari calls this phase in world economies social democracy, or transatlantic “socially managed capitalism.” (p. 144) To understand Ahmari’s praise of this period,... Read more

Economics

2024-07-27T08:22:41-06:00

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Economic Coercion and ‘Tyranny, Inc.’ by Sohrab Ahmari

Last updated on: July 27, 2024 at 8:22 am By Jack Hartjes

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Sohrab Ahmari shows how coercion operates in the American economy, especially in its most recent “neoliberal” phase. Neoliberalism is the economic theory that exalts market freedom and claims that market coercion does not exist as long as government stays out of the way of freely signed contracts between labor and employer and free exchange of money for goods and services. Rejecting that idealistic picture, Ahmari looks realistically at a market rife with coercion resulting from inequalities of power. In my... Read more

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2025-01-30T11:15:28-06:00

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Easter Triduum at Saint Raphael’s: Three Days with Jesus

Last updated on: January 30, 2025 at 11:15 am By Jack Hartjes

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Tomorrow the 40 days of Lent will end. These six weeks call to our minds Jesus’ 40 days in the desert and the Israelites’ 40 years of wandering to the Promised Land. Tomorrow also begins the Church’s shortest season, the Easter Triduum, and her longest Mass. Three days, Holy Thursday night through Good Friday to Saturday night’s Easter Vigil. We go to church three times, but it’s all one Liturgy. The Easter Triduum is the summit of the Church’s year,... Read more

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2023-12-06T06:33:33-06:00

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Francis, the Writing Pope: A Walk through Some Major Works

Last updated on: December 6, 2023 at 6:33 am By Jack Hartjes

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A Maryknoll friend of mine and Orbis Press did us a service with a condensed version of several of Pope Francis’s published writings. In under 200 pages you can get the gist of ten major works of Francis’s papacy. The book is Fr. James Kroeger’s Walking with Pope Francis: The Official Documents in Ordinary Language The works that Fr. Jim walks through, in Latin and English titles, are: Lumen Fidei, The Light of Faith Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the... Read more

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