Sometimes You Can Go Home Again
I returned to Maine recently to visit with family. So on Sunday, before heading home to Vermont, I returned to the church that had been my home parish, off and on, for many years....
Catholic Social Teaching for Our World Today
I returned to Maine recently to visit with family. So on Sunday, before heading home to Vermont, I returned to the church that had been my home parish, off and on, for many years....
A new online magazine has just launched. Voyage Comics is focused on comics and popular media, approaching it from a Catholic perspective. So of course I had to write something for their inaugural issue....
So what’s been going on these past six months since I’ve posted to this blog? Not as much as I’d have liked, unfortunately. But as we begin a new year I’m planning on writing...
A lot has already been written about Jeff Sessions, about his use of a Biblical quote to justify political actions, and about the reasons why he’s wrong. I don’t know that I can say...
This year for our Holy Week Tenebrae service I presented a short reflection on Luke 22: 47 – 52 — the betrayal and arrest of Jesus. The disciples are having a very bad day....
The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace by Paul Moses My rating: 4 of 5 stars The basic story is well-established in the biography of Saint...
Wisdom seems to be in rather short supply these days. I think one reason I’ve found myself so drawn to my theology studies is that it offers a wider view of things. At a...
Is money a form of idolatry? This past Sunday, listening to the Gospel reading in which Jesus speaks of the lawfulness of paying taxes, I had one of those quick and fleeting drive-by thoughts....
What does Catholic teaching tell us about extraterrestrial life? This might not seem like the most pressing of theological questions, but here I must admit to being a complete and unabashed science-fiction nerd. So...
At the store where I work we put up a sign at the beginning of the month, letting customers know that September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. It’s been up now for a few...
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