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2018-02-14T18:02:27-05:00

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We Need to Talk about Violence.

Last updated on: February 14, 2018 at 6:02 pm By Julia Smucker

President Obama got it right: we can’t tolerate this anymore. In his speech at Newtown’s interfaith prayer vigil on Sunday, while appropriately keeping the primary focus on voicing and responding to the nation’s grief, Obama showed a hint of political courage that hasn’t been seen on the problem of public shootings from either side of the aisle for as long as I can remember: Since I’ve been president, this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart... Read more

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2012-12-20T15:29:27-05:00

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Quote of the Day – Lew Daly

Last updated on: December 20, 2012 at 3:29 pm By Morning's Minion

From The Church of Labor: “Religious bodies and organized labor share many common features of identity, mission, and purpose, and share equally in the development of ideas of solidarity and their enduring appeal. In different times and places they also shared in a struggle for rights of association and a legitimate, protected place in public law. The notable correlation between church-state integration and collective bargaining strength in Europe often reflects specific political alignments of religious and labor institutions; Christian political parties... Read more

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2012-12-20T13:13:52-05:00

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Benedict’s Book: An Appraisal

Last updated on: December 20, 2012 at 1:13 pm By Nathan O'Halloran, SJ

Now that the secular media has completed its rants about how Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) destroyed Christmas, the time has come to engage more seriously the accomplishment of Ratzinger in his new book The Infancy Narratives. What is the overall merit of his project? Let me begin by saying that the spiritual reflections Ratzinger offers throughout the book are well worth anyone’s read. I was deeply moved, for instance, by his reflections on the Annunciation, and by his insightful commentary... Read more

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2012-12-19T22:10:42-05:00

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Thomas Merton on Advent (and Newtown)

Last updated on: December 19, 2012 at 10:10 pm By Mark Gordon

From Thomas Merton’s essay, “Advent: Hope or Delusion?” “The certainty of Christian hope lies beyond passion and beyond knowledge. Therefore we must sometimes expect our hope to come in conflict with darkness, desperation and ignorance. Therefore, too, we must remember that Christian optimism is not a perpetual sense of euphoria, an indefectable comfort in whose presence neither anguish nor tragedy can possibly exist. We must not strive to maintain a climate of optimism by the mere suppression of tragic realities.... Read more

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2017-04-26T11:15:25-05:00

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Reaping What We Sow

Last updated on: April 26, 2017 at 11:15 am By Matt Talbot

So, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 children are dead. 20 Children. Most of them six-year-olds. Gunned down by a madman with an assault rifle and two handguns. I spent most of last Friday feeling like crying. It is hard to be objective about such a crime, such a violation of the innocence of children. My first reaction was that moral depravity on this scale is impossible to make sense of, because it is truly senseless. But, what if it is true... Read more

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2012-12-17T11:16:36-05:00

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Another religious liberty issue?

Last updated on: December 17, 2012 at 11:16 am By Morning's Minion

I had not thought about this much until I read this blog post on the craziest gun laws in the United States. Consider this: “Property rights end where gun rights begin: According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 17 states, including Oklahoma and Florida, bar employers from preventing their employees from bringing guns to work and keeping them locked in their vehicles, even if those vehicles are on the property of the employer. Indiana and North Dakota allow employees... Read more

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2012-12-16T13:01:03-05:00

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Reflections on the Nativity

Last updated on: December 16, 2012 at 1:01 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

December 16, 2012, Gaudete Sunday A sermon delivered to St. Joseph Fraternity, Hartford, as part of our annual Christmas Creche devotion My brothers and sisters in Christ: may the Lord give you Peace! Today we follow the tradition established by our Father Francis of recreating the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, celebrating this fact in word and song. The first such celebration was in Greccio in 1223, and we have just heard the description of it by Thomas of Celano.... Read more

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2017-05-03T19:01:53-05:00

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Powers and Principalities: The Gun as Idol

Last updated on: May 3, 2017 at 7:01 pm By Brett Salkeld

I am increasingly convinced that idolatry is a category that Christianity needs to recover. As long as it remains ignored, a central tenet of Christianity, that an essential aspect of Jesus’s work was to unmask the powers and principalities that order the logic of this world, remains opaque to us. And as long as this remains opaque, we will continue to worship those powers and principalities. The suggestion that this is hyperbole and mythology has no purchase with me. The... Read more

2017-04-26T12:05:46-05:00

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Mary: Our Voice, God’s Voice

Last updated on: April 26, 2017 at 12:05 pm By Nathan O'Halloran, SJ

Having completed two of my favorite Marian days of the year, the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I can take a moment now to pause and reflect on what they mean together. In the Immaculate Conception, Mary speaks for humanity. That, I believe, is the deepest meaning of the Immaculate Conception. Not freedom from some kind “stain” of original sin, but the completely free capacity to speak a full and resounding “Yes” on behalf... Read more

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2017-04-26T11:23:26-05:00

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Robert Sirico is pro-choice

Last updated on: April 26, 2017 at 11:23 am By Morning's Minion

Have a look at Robert Sirico’s latest essay applauding Michigan’s right-to-work legislation. (By the way, Michael Sean Winters is a must-read on this today). It is not really a surprise that Sirico is against unions. After all, he is a consistent libertarian who believes in the supremacy of individual autonomy, in spite of clear Church positions against this – take Pope Paul VI, for example, who explicitly condemns the “erroneous affirmation of the autonomy of the individual in his activity, his motivation... Read more

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