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2018-04-05T08:44:55-05:00

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The Mindless Menace of Violence

Last updated on: April 5, 2018 at 8:44 am By Mark Gordon

Fifty years ago today, on the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy channeled Catholic Social Teaching in a speech before the Cleveland City Club. Read the second half of his speech and listen to the entire thing below. Think about how frighteningly appropriate these words are for us today. Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Mark Gordon

Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection

Racial Reconciliation

2017-10-13T09:55:25-05:00

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Babylon’s Falling: Recovering an Exilic Christian Consciousness

Last updated on: October 13, 2017 at 9:55 am By Mark Gordon

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that there has always been a Babylon and the Christian people have always been exiles within it. Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

Mark Gordon

Radical Christianity

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2017-08-23T11:59:58-05:00

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The Word from Dr. Lowdown

Last updated on: August 23, 2017 at 11:59 am By Elias Crim

Yesterday morning I picked up my friend, Issa Umi, at the suburban train stop. He was wearing a soft hat, mismatched women’s earrings, and a peculiar shirt and vest combination. (He later told me a lady in his new apartment building exclaimed “You look like art!”, as she strolled past him.) Issa had taken the train down from Chicago in order to pick up some belongings he had left in storage from a previous stay in my NW Indiana town.... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Christian Friendship

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Elias Crim

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2017-08-08T13:54:59-05:00

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Feeling the Francis Effect

Last updated on: August 8, 2017 at 1:54 pm By Elias Crim

How to understand Pope Francis? Despite the apparent dyspepsia his arrival has caused among some of the unafflictedly comfortable, it really shouldn’t be that difficult to get him right, wouldn’t you think? Here’s a tip: I recently watched a DVD of The Francis Effect, which I suspect is probably the best single video introduction to the life, ideas and mission of Pope Francis currently available. Produced by Salt + Light, the Toronto/Montreal-based Catholic television network, the film is a skillful blending of both... Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Elias Crim

Mercy

Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage

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2017-07-31T10:02:04-05:00

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Jesus the Imagination

Last updated on: July 31, 2017 at 10:02 am By Elias Crim

Art, says Michael Martin, has the potential to create a new Gospel every day. “Not a different one,” he adds, “but a new one, and this through the incarnational possible.” In the summer of 2016, Martin, a farmer and author of The Submerged Reality and The Incarnation of the Poetic Word, invited a number of friends to a rural Michigan weekend of reflection on the arts and culture. This was an arty, literate bunch but we shared a dissatisfaction at... Read more

Art

Community building, models or forms of community, radical hospitality

Elias Crim

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2017-07-17T12:16:05-05:00

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Does God Love the Poor More Than the Rich?

Last updated on: July 17, 2017 at 12:16 pm By Mark Gordon

On the surface, it would seem so; in Scripture, there are nearly 3,000 verses concerned with justice for the lowly, the oppressed, and the stranger. Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Mark Gordon

Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage

Radical Christianity

2017-07-11T09:54:31-05:00

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Why You Should Read (and Listen to) Sam Rocha

Last updated on: July 11, 2017 at 9:54 am By Elias Crim

Not long after Pope Francis’ election in 2013, we friends around Solidarity Hall began to sense that some of our fellow Catholics were just not getting this new Argentinian guy. We decided to collect some essays, partly “translating” Francis for an American audience and also speculating on how we saw the coming years of his papacy. Somewhere I had heard of a youngish but talented Patheos Channel blogger, Sam Rocha, and we asked him to contribute something. Sam obligingly sent us... Read more

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2017-07-02T17:19:57-05:00

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Catholic Artists Getting Re-enchanted

Last updated on: July 2, 2017 at 5:19 pm By Elias Crim

Like some hack sportswriter who skips the game but writes his piece by listening on the radio at home, I offer here a report on last week’s Trying to Say God conference at the University of Notre Dame, despite the fact I couldn’t make it there. (Family unexpectedly came in from out of town.) Happily, I was able to listen to some of the presentations posted as audio files on SoundCloud, courtesy of that estimable Patheos blog, Sick Pilgrim, whose proprietors... Read more

Art

Elias Crim

2017-05-16T15:39:52-05:00

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The Life of “An Apostle of Charity”

Last updated on: May 16, 2017 at 3:39 pm By Mark Gordon

Raymond Sickinger, a professor of history at Providence College, has written an impressive new biography of Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, the mid-19th Century French layman who Pope St. John Paul II called an "apostle of charity" and "a precursor of the social doctrine of the Church." Read more

Catholic Social Teaching

Corporal & Spiritual Works of Mercy

Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, CW aims and means, spirituality

Mark Gordon

Poverty, economic inequality, consumerism, unemployment, underemployment, living wage

2017-05-10T09:48:28-05:00

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Jesus, Taxes, and Charity

Last updated on: May 10, 2017 at 9:48 am By Guest Contributor

It’s sadly become somewhat de rigueur, particularly but not exclusively on the American political right, to proof-text or misread this passage or to read into it things that were not intended, to prove an ideological point or – as I rather more strongly suspect – to put a religious gloss on an ideological position (that of libertarianism, or anarcho-capitalism) which is, according to the social teaching of the Church, fundamentally godless. Read more

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