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April 2020

April 06, 2020
I just added a pandemic prayer, Pope Francis’ “Prayer to Mary during Coronavirus Pandemic,” to...
April 02, 2020
Who am I? It’s a question addressed in parlor games, odd moments of reflection and...

March 2020

March 24, 2020
Today Common Prayer for Ordinary Radicals remembers the not-so-ordinary radical Oscar Romero. It is the...
March 21, 2020
Before the corona virus epidemic, I was a climate change pessimist. I’m a bit more...
March 16, 2020
I’m reading the e-mails of Rachel Corrie, whom I’m counting among the “ordinary radicals” of...
March 14, 2020
Military Wiki, a free military encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, isn’t all about honor...
March 10, 2020
In economics globalization seems inevitable if anything is. But at a recent Vatican meeting of...
March 04, 2020
For a communicator bishop like Bishop Robert Barron, Letter to a Suffering Church, on the...
March 02, 2020
Consumer Culture engages powerfully in our moral and spiritual formation. That formation, William T. Cavanaugh...

February 2020

February 28, 2020
What? Ash Wednesday was two days ago, and I haven’t sworn for going on three...
February 26, 2020
I have an attachment to my material things. If it’s a rock that I found...
February 24, 2020
Everyone is free in the free market, but what kind of freedom is that? William...
February 22, 2020
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire is the second book by William T. Cavanaugh to...
February 19, 2020
This month, February, we remember events and heroes of the civil rights movement. I’m thinking...
February 10, 2020
Altar call: A tradition in some evangelical Christian churches in which those who wish to...
February 07, 2020
Last fall’s Synod on the Amazon made clear the difference between Catholic and some evangelical...
February 03, 2020
Women couldn’t be teachers, at least not of men, in the early centuries of the...

January 2020

January 31, 2020
In recent years I have seen some priests taking a step backwards to my childhood...
January 29, 2020
“Ecological sin: Idea of updating catechism sparks debate.” Catholic News Service ran this article as...
January 26, 2020
I have just completed in several posts a journey through the Mass, getting help from...
January 20, 2020
……………………………………………………………………………………………… A dis– MISSA –l sends us on MISS –ion to the world. What kind...
January 13, 2020
An article in AARP Magazine has me thinking about loneliness in our lives and lonely...
January 11, 2020
Some of Jesus’ first followers had trouble with Jesus’ baptism by John. If anything, Jesus...
January 03, 2020
Basil of Caesarea, well-known as a theologian, anti-Arian apologist, and defender of the Trinitarian theology...
January 02, 2020
There probably is no region on earth where human activity has greater impact on my...

December 2019

December 31, 2019
Established in African-American communities on December 31, 1862, Watch Night is a gathering to celebrate...
December 28, 2019
Communion is the most important part of the Mass. I believe that now, but I...
December 21, 2019
Some Americans, including in my town in Southern Minnesota, who are not necessarily climate-change deniers,...
December 19, 2019
I wrote the Prayers of the Faithful for the Mass of Resurrection for my son-in-law...
December 14, 2019
I first met Thomas Merton in his early book Seeds of Contemplation. I was a...
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