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2023-04-22T07:59:20-06:00

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

Last updated on: April 22, 2023 at 7:59 am By Jack Hartjes

Introduction to the Theologian and his Book Torture and Eucharist William T. Cavanaugh is a Catholic theologian whose interests, besides theology, include economics and politics. The role of the Church in the world of politics and economics is central in his thought. He has been a professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University since 1910. Before that he taught at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology.... Read more

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Torture and Eucharist

2021-08-13T14:34:53-06:00

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Praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary with Scripture

Last updated on: August 13, 2021 at 2:34 pm By Jack Hartjes

Praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary on Holy Saturday was a little premature, but it seemed the right thing to do. It also reminded me to write this post. Thinking back over the series of posts on the mysteries of the Rosary and reviewing the Scriptures these mysteries call up, I realize I have some favorites: Joyful Mysteries. The favorite has to be Mary’s Magnificat at the Visitation. Luminous Mysteries. Here it’s the Proclamation of the Kingdom — “This is the time of fulfillment. “... Read more

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2021-08-11T19:59:49-06:00

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

Last updated on: August 11, 2021 at 7:59 pm By Jack Hartjes

On Good Friday I stood with the congregation in church playing my part in the dramatization of the Passion story according to the Gospel of John. No need to identify the year; it was the same every year on Good Friday. We get to the part where Pilate presents Jesus to the crowd and I cry out along with everyone in the pews: CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM — just as that Gospel of John says the Jews cried out on the... Read more

2021-08-11T20:06:29-06:00

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

Last updated on: August 11, 2021 at 8:06 pm By Jack Hartjes

For a long time I have wondered what to think about Pope Francis’s suggestion about changing the translation of the Lord’s Prayer. The familiarity of the words almost, but not quite, buries the oddness of the petition “Lead us not into temptation.” That same familiarity has had me looking for a reason not to change. Luke’s Gospel account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, which we heard on Palm Sunday, helps. Pope Francis on asking God not to lead us into temptation... Read more

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2019-04-29T07:49:38-06:00

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Faith that can Move Mountains … or Not

Last updated on: April 29, 2019 at 7:49 am By Jack Hartjes

It’s Tuesday after the first “Palm Sunday,” that is, after the day Jesus paraded into Jerusalem on a donkey. Jesus wants to teach something about faith, but what exactly? Yesterday Jesus performed in the temple what we would call an act of civil disobedience. He created a ruckus. (Disagreeing with the first three gospels, the Gospel of John says it happened earlier in Jesus’ ministry. Scholars are not sure whom to believe about the time, but they’re pretty sure, at least, that the demonstration in the... Read more

Stories of Jesus

2019-07-23T16:17:44-06:00

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

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 4:17 pm By Jack Hartjes

Thoughts about Two Readings from the Fifth Sunday of Lent I was pretty sure I had identified the idiom in last Sundays first reading from Isaiah, and then I was fine with what it said. I wasn’t so happy with the second reading from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians until it occurred to me: He’s using the same idiom. Remember not the events of the past. (Isaiah 43:18) What an awful thing for God to say to a Jew, or... Read more

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2019-04-10T06:10:51-06:00

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

Last updated on: April 10, 2019 at 6:10 am By Jack Hartjes

Mark relates several stories where Jesus is apparently successful, but the success is only apparent. He performs miracles—casts out a demon, cures Simon’s mother-in-law of a fever, cures several other people, casts out several other demons. He ends up with crowds of people following him. It sounds like the opposite of the story in Luke where Jesus is rejected by his hometown. (See previous post.) But here too Jesus has a problem. You might call it the Messiah problem. According to Mark nobody understood Jesus... Read more

Stories of Jesus

2019-04-29T07:50:29-06:00

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Unsuccessful Prophet: Jesus Fails to Win His Own

Last updated on: April 29, 2019 at 7:50 am By Jack Hartjes

As one who “came to do God’s will,” Jesus succeeded wonderfully. But people knew Jesus as a prophet, and as a prophet he largely failed. His message about the coming of God’s Kingdom and life in God’s Kingdom fell on a lot of deaf ears. Jesus addressed his message to Jews almost exclusively. He even instructed his emissaries not to go to Samaria or the Greek cities. That has to be an accurate memory, it seems to me. Why otherwise would... Read more

Stories of Jesus

2022-10-09T02:24:51-06:00

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The Beatitudes: Blessed are We Poor

Last updated on: October 9, 2022 at 2:24 am By Jack Hartjes

It was in the middle of a plain, or was it on a mountain? It started with what we call the Beatitudes, and it was a great speech. Or was it an editor’s gathering of things Jesus said on many separate occasions? The story appears in Matthew and Luke, both of whom relied on an earlier source now lost. Matthew is the one who gives us the “Sermon on the Mountain.” The mountain makes us think of Jesus as the... Read more

Stories of Jesus

2019-04-01T06:51:58-06:00

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The Unbrokered Kingdom and Jesus’ Wandering Ways

Last updated on: April 1, 2019 at 6:51 am By Jack Hartjes

Looking at Jesus from a distance, an observer would notice one thing especially: he didn’t stay long in one place. If actions speak louder than words, one would want to understand what message Jesus’ wandering ways convey. This post traces a sort of journey in my thinking with help from John Dominic Crossan and his idea of the unbrokered kingdom. I tend to think about Jesus’ poverty and imagine that says something important about God. Crossan, in The Historical Jesus: The... Read more

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