the rest of your money belongs to the poor. – Pope Leo XIII If your first response to this is, “Makes sense” and you second is to find some way to live it out, you are blessed by a heart responsive to the Holy Spirit. If your first and only thought in response is resentment to this thoroughly biblical, Christian, and Catholic observation, then do not kid yourself that you are deeply generous and long to pour out your largesse... Read more
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the... Read more
…tomorrow, June 25 at 10 AM. See you there! Read more
Personalism, common good, Catholic Social Teaching, community building and other dangerous notions! First episode is a chat with Matthew Loftus (of Mere Orthodoxy) and the second with Liz Bruenig (now with WashPo): Check thou it out! Read more
…the author of The Saint vs. the Scholar, about the quarrel between St. Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard: Read more
The bloody-handed GOP “health care” plan will end that, rob the middle class and the poor, and give that money to the super-rich. Guess what happens when people cannot afford a pregnancy. The abortion rate goes up. But “prolife” Christians don’t care about actual real world results. They’ve been bought off by a promise to defund Planned Parenthood for a whole year. It will have no effect on the abortion, but it feels good. So they blindly support it, without... Read more
will “wreak havoc” on families. This has nothing to do with health. It is a transparent act of class warfare and theft from the poor and the middle class by the rich. The incredible thing is watching the people who are going to suffer from it cheer for it because it is more important to them that those poorer and browner than they be punished than that they themselves prosper. Sin makes you stupid, but envy makes you dumber than... Read more
She makes an excellent book recommendation at the 16:15 mark, which I can happily help you with purchasing (along with numerous other fine books and media materials) if you go here. Thanks for your kind words, Dr. Healy! Read more
Stephanie Gray gave this talk at Google headquarters and it was a hit: Read more
I once took an Ed Psych class back in the day I was thinking about becoming a teacher. One of the things the class pointed out was that our brains tend to function in such a way that we process new information according to how it fits in with what we already know (or think we know). So, for instance, the prof told a story about an award-winning teacher he knew who taught a unit on the Reformation to a... Read more
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