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January 2015

January 25, 2015

Was it Suicide?

The Catholic Transcript, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Hartford, has started a new feature: ...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

The Tears of the Infant Jesus

The word "solemn" has a range of meaning that borders on the paradoxical. Most commonly,...

December 21, 2014

Come, let us keep praying: a lament for late Advent

This summer, as accounts were unfolding of the forced exodus of Iraqi Christians from Mosul and...

September 2014

September 21, 2014

Praying with Evil News

Last month, I was sent an article from The Jesuit Post that has changed the way...

May 2013

May 07, 2013

Better Not to Believe

If there is still violence, it cannot any longer, even in the remotest sense, claim...

January 2013

January 04, 2013

Far as the curse is found

The celebrations that surround the nativity of our Lord often seem to bring a mix...

July 2012

July 18, 2012

Believing in One Holy Church and living in a sinful one

Julia's recent post calling for an ecclesiology which can account for fallibility engendered much discussion...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Selfishness, Despite Claims To Justify It, Is Not Virtuous

We often do things for ourselves and justify it by some sort of “trickle down”...

February 2012

February 18, 2012

Life is Suffering, So Let Us Love One Another

Siddartha, raised in luxury, awakened to the truth that life is filled with suffering. He...

January 2012

January 21, 2012

“Those that we call monsters are not so to God”

A friend I made through my personal blog sent me a link a while ago...

December 2011

December 06, 2011

O Felix Culpa

Oh happy fault! Because of sin, the world has been raised up to a higher...

July 2011

July 08, 2011

“Sola skirtura” and Sexual Woundedness

While the “sola skirtura” debate raging elsewhere in the Catholic blogosphere is not interesting to...

March 2011

March 21, 2011

Litany for Japan

I've been saying this litany to the Japanese martyrs, and wanted to invite readers here...

December 2010

December 16, 2010

Healing the Suffering of the World

The Divine Infancy in us is the logical answer to the peculiar sufferings of our...

November 2010

November 30, 2010

Wisdom’s Fire, Radiant and Unfading. Part X: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Christ

Part IX In the glorious Trinity, love shines forth: The Father gives his all to...

September 2010

September 18, 2010

The Cross

A couple of weeks ago this Scripture was one of the readings at Mass. Heb...

August 2010

August 10, 2010

Further Thoughts on Sin: The Face of Christ

Station 6: Veronica Helps Jesus Christ Speaks: Can you be brave enough, my other self,...

July 2010

July 29, 2010

Some Thoughts on Sin, Part One

About 30 years ago, I was involved in an RCIA class being taught by a...

April 2010

April 13, 2010

A Glimpse of the Resurrection During the Church’s Way of the Cross

This past Holy Week and subsequent celebration of Easter was a rough one for me...

April 05, 2010

The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern World and the Sex Abuse Scandal: A Reflection

As we find ourselves in the midst of another discussion of sex abuse by priests...

April 02, 2010

Was Jesus Raped?: David Tombs on Sexual Violence and the Crucifixion

Although the passion narratives of our Gospels are well known to us and bring all...

March 2010

March 30, 2010

Enjoy the Silence: Triduum, sexual abuse, and the disappearance of the crucified

"Words are very unnecessary / They can only do harm Enjoy the silence" (Depeche Mode)...

March 24, 2010

Twenty-first century bishops and a twenty-first century church

Earlier this month in his regular NCR column, John Allen described Archbishop Charles Chaput as...

March 22, 2010

On Suffering and Weakness: A Contemplation

We are coming near the end of Great Lent. Soon, we will once again liturgically...

March 12, 2010

Consequentialism and Animals

Because St Thomas Aquinas believed in a kind of human dominion over animals that suggested...

February 2010

February 27, 2010

The treason of being Christlike

Two blog posts by different authors on the same blog on the same day. Both...

January 2010

January 15, 2010

Quote of the week

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government. - Martin...

January 06, 2010

u.s. troops drag 8 children from their beds in the middle of the night and kill them

"I (perhaps foolishly) like to believe that we don’t deliberately target non-combatants during warfare." -...

December 2009

December 12, 2009

A few quotes from Dorothee Soelle

I was reading excerpts tonight from the late German feminist and political theologian and activist...

September 2009

September 14, 2009

“We Will Never Forget”: Metz, Memory, and the Dangerous Spirituality of Post-9/11 America (Part IV – Conclusion)

The Church and the “Dangerous Memory” of 9/11: Narratives of Fear, Narratives of Hope The...