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2023-02-13T08:13:08-06:00

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Pope at Economy of Francesco: A Rich Heritage – Except for the Planet

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:13 am By Jack Hartjes

Pope Francis on Saturday spoke to a gathering of about 1000 young people in Assisi. Assisi is the Italian birthplace of St. Francis, the pope’s namesake. Pope Francis was in Assisi for the final day of a meeting of young peoples’ Economy of Francesco. The title of this article paraphrases what the pope said about the heritage young people are receiving. The Guardian quotes Pope Francis: Our generation has left you with a rich heritage, but we have not known... Read more

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2022-10-09T02:28:46-06:00

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Human Composting: California Bishops Say ‘No,’ but Why Not?

Last updated on: October 9, 2022 at 2:28 am By Jack Hartjes

California now allows human composting as a way of returning the body of a deceased person to nature. It is an eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation. Other states approving human composting include Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, and, by now, possibly New York. The process of human composting takes about 30 days. The body of the deceased is placed in a reusable vessel. Wood chips and aeration create an environment where microbes and bacteria can transform the body into... Read more

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2023-02-13T08:13:58-06:00

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Paulo Freire, the “Pedagogue of the Oppressed”: Is This a Good Fit for Jesus?

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:13 am By Jack Hartjes

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian activist and academic. He taught, and led others to teach, literacy to impoverished, downtrodden, and despised people in Northeastern Brazil. Teaching for Freire wasn’t just imparting knowledge and skills. Education’s goal, he thought, was to help people discover themselves as “creative agents” in the process of lifting themselves up and changing their world. Before being vindicated by the worldwide scholarly community, Freire was imprisoned as a threat to Brazil’s elite. That was after a Cia-aided... Read more

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2023-02-13T08:14:08-06:00

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William Herzog Reads Jesus’ Parables, Brings them Down to Earth

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:14 am By Jack Hartjes

William R. Herzog II says he wrote a book about Jesus’ parables after puzzling about the parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. My dad once told me how he felt about that very parable. It wasn’t just. The landowner should not have paid laborers who worked all day the same wage as those who only worked one hour. I could easily understand. Dad was a banker; financial doings were important to him. My response, which I don’t remember after... Read more

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2022-08-29T11:34:58-06:00

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Does a Land-based ICBM Force Keep Us Safe from Nuclear Armageddon

Last updated on: August 29, 2022 at 11:34 am By Jack Hartjes

The Union of Concerned Scientists Says it Doesn’t and should be Scrapped A virtual-reality simulation asks: Should I launch an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) counterforce in response to a perceived Russian nuclear attack? The London Guardian Newspaper last December tells what it would be like for a president faced with this decision: Our Early Warning System has detected what appears to be the launch of 299 Russian missiles aimed at our ICBM deterrent force in silos across the Western Plains. Someone from... Read more

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2022-08-29T11:40:08-06:00

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Nuclear Deterrence: The Church’s Changing Moral Teaching

Last updated on: August 29, 2022 at 11:40 am By Jack Hartjes

This post traces the development of Catholic Church teaching on the morality of nuclear weapons. In particular, it looks at the nuclear powers’ strategy of deterrence. Following that strategy Russia and the U.S. keep their nuclear weapons at the ready to deter each other from using them first. For a while conditionally accepting deterrence, the Church now officially condemns even the possession of nuclear weapons. The immorality of nuclear weapons use A philosophy prof at Catholic University in the 1960’s... Read more

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2022-08-16T15:09:08-06:00

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Trying to Justify the Bomb – Stories and Facts

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:09 pm By Jack Hartjes

Seventy-seven years ago the United States unleashed the power of the atom against two population centers in Japan. Since then practically all the typical American heard about the morality of these acts was how necessary it was to end the war and prevent even more killing. Contrary voices, including those of religious figures (see this post), scientists, generals, and other military advisers were missing from the history that I and most Americans learned in school. It was an “end justifies... Read more

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2022-08-16T15:10:01-06:00

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Conscience of World War II Victors

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:10 pm By Jack Hartjes

It’s been 77 years since the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United states dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I’m returning to a subject I treated previously. This post will begin a series on “Nuclear Weapons, the World, and the Church.” Four posts in this series will cover these topics: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the conscience of World War II victors ... Read more

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2022-08-16T15:12:48-06:00

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The Year of the Lord’s favor: What Happened to it after Jesus?

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:12 pm By Jack Hartjes

The year of the Lord’s favor – that’s what Luke says Jesus preached in Nazareth to begin his public ministry. He was reading from a scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and both Isaiah and Jesus were referring to the Jubilee Year. That’s the 50th year, when those who had increased their wealth and accumulated property (through foreclosures) and even persons (as debt slaves) were to forgive debts, free slaves, and return ancestral lands to their original possessors. After 49 years... Read more

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2022-08-16T15:13:16-06:00

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Debt and Debt Forgiveness from Ancient Sumer to Jesus

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:13 pm By Jack Hartjes

Debt is a major part of economic behavior in the modern world. That hardly distinguishes modern economics from the medieval or even ancient varieties. According to Michael Hudson, debt in ancient Near Eastern societies gave rise to money rather than vice versa. (… And Forgive Them Their Debts, p. 268 et al.) That debt was what peasant farmers owed after obtaining at planting time not money but seed on credit. And that was happening as long ago as the third... Read more

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