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Bishops conference calls for employers to pay a living wage
From the Catholic bishops of England and Wales: To coincide with Living Wage Week, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales together with three of its leading Catholic Agencies: the...
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Francis unmasked
More evidence of the foolishness and unorthodoxy of Pope Francis comes to light on the blogosphere! Another one of them has made himself known, thus unmasking Francis. One of what? One of those people,...
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Dorothy — and her ongoing legacy
Today is Dorothy Day’s birthday! She was born November 8, 1897. It’s a good day to point out that one of the newest Catholic Worker communities in the United States — the Central Minnesota Catholic...
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Inspiration and disappointment at the National Shrine
I had the pleasure of being on the campus of the Catholic University of America yesterday. I spent a couple of happy years at CUA, nearly two decades ago, studying sacramental theology, and it was good...
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On a roll at First Things (UPDATED)
They’re on a roll at the First Things blog this week. I don’t often get to excited about what they have to say there — a bit too much of the ideology I criticized in my previous post about the National...
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Mother Celestine Bottego
Uh-oh. Here may be one more sign that the devil has infiltrated the Vatican in the form of Pope Francis, one more example of that s.o.b. “making all of the wrong people happy.” In this case, it will be...
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Has Jesus been “locked inside the Church and knocking because he wants to get...
The newsprint is yellowed now, despite being framed under glass. It’s the front page of an old edition of L’Osservatore Romano, English edition, from October 1992, that I bought in Rome the week it...
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Francis’s Camaldolese visit: the U.S. connection
There’s beautiful video available now from Pope Francis’s visit earlier today to the Camaldolese Monastery of Sant’Antonio Abate in Rome. Beautiful prayer in a beautiful chapel, and beautiful words...
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Christ the center
I have been a Catholic all my life and a “professional” Catholic, in one way or another, for much of my adult life. I have studied our history carefully and our theology deeply. I have lived and...
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Congar’s call: “a prophetic awareness of what it means to be human”
The Pray Tell blog has recently been featuring select passages from My Journal of the Council, the remarkable personal journal kept by theologian (and later cardinal) Yves Congar throughout the Second...
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The Joy of the Gospel — thoughts on chapter one
Even as someone who has deeply appreciated and been excited by the ministry of Pope Francis, I must admit I reacted a bit cynically when I read Fr. Jim Martin’s take on the new apostolic exhortation,...
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“Mater si, Magistra no” lives again
It’s been over 50 years since the conservative American magazine National Review, under the leadership of Catholic William Buckley, published its now famous ”Mater si, Magistra no” in response to Pope...
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Sad
From CNN Money this morning: Thanksgiving openings appear to succeed The first takeaway from Black Friday 2013: Thanksgiving is changing. For all the talk of shopping boycotts — on the grounds that...
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Commercial break
November 2013, it turns out, has been the busiest month, in terms of visitors and views, in this blog’s almost-two-year history. That’s exciting to me, and much appreciated. So thank you for coming by,...
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Obama goes to Hollywood
President Obama visited Hollywood last week. He stopped by DreamWorks Animations Studios, where he watched some movie production in action and met with many industry big-wigs. He also attended...
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“In Aula fit plausus”: At Pray Tell today
The Pray Tell blog has posted a guest post of mine that briefly explores a remarkable moment during the proceedings of the Second Vatican Council, on October 30, 1962. On that day, the most powerful...
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New article in OSV: 450th anniversary of the Council of Trent
Besides being the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s promulgation of its historic Constituion on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, today is also the 450th anniversary of the...
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“The gap is growing”: The President on economic inequality
I was critical of President Obama the other day about remarks he delivered to movie execs during his trip to Hollywood last week. So today I’m more than happy to draw attention to an important speech...
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Lots of minus signs in front of those numbers
It’s cold in quite a few places in the U.S., and here in central Minnesota, it’s COOOOLLLLD. Just rolled out of bed to begin my morning routine and checked the current temp before heading out to walk...
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The single most stunningly inaccurate observation about Evangelii Gaudium
I’ve been moving along through Evangelii Gaudium — savoring it, really — and will likely post a few more thoughts on it soon. Of course, the parts on economics are striking and the parts on...
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