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May 2017

May 25, 2017
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin (1928-1996) of Chicago urged his fellow Catholics to adopt a consistent ethic...
May 19, 2017
The living wage movement improves family life for targeted workers but has little spillover effect...
May 08, 2017
“Your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health...

April 2017

April 28, 2017
For the past 300 years or more the secularism thesis has said that science, individual...
April 04, 2017
Following each presidential election, a cottage industry of analysis appears—maps, tables, articles and books. This...

March 2017

March 27, 2017
Nearly every business leader agrees with the idea of corporate responsibility, said Stefano Zamagni at...
March 21, 2017
St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday this year. Thus, several Illinois bishops (though not...
March 11, 2017
Children in a generally peaceful home can acquire virtue more readily than those in a...
March 04, 2017
Nearly 250 people, including a fair number of high school students, filled St. Barnabas church...

February 2017

February 20, 2017
Fr. Isaac Hecker, CSP (1819-1888) founded the Paulist Fathers, the first United States-based religious order....

January 2017

January 28, 2017
The best-selling Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (Harper Collins, 2016) is about fierce loyalty within...
January 18, 2017
The office of our county sheriff has an animal welfare unit. It received a tip...
January 14, 2017
Pope Francis recently uttered what should be regarded as one more ho-hum statement: “Never before...
January 10, 2017
by Bill Droel and John Erb In a series for this blog we say that...
January 04, 2017
by Bill Droel and John Erb In this and previous installments on this blog site...

December 2016

December 29, 2016
By Bill Droel and John Erb In a series of essays on this blog site...
December 20, 2016
by Bill Droel and John Erb For some time now, we have thought about the...
December 16, 2016
A pilgrim goes to a place that contains some spiritual sentiment—like Rome, Mecca or Bethlehem....
December 01, 2016
Martin Scorsese was vaccinated with “a Catholic imagination,” writes Fr. Andrew Greeley (1928-2013). For Scorsese...

November 2016

November 16, 2016
Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, OP of Peru is rightly receiving awards these days for his role...
November 04, 2016
Some time ago a business group sponsored a Saturday clean-up in my neighborhood. Teenagers were...

October 2016

October 20, 2016
The internal battles are the hardest. The particulars of an internal dispute quickly seem inconsequential...
October 13, 2016
A small number of Catholics more or less believes that capitalism is evil. On the...

September 2016

September 26, 2016
Once upon a time there was an elderly monk “who wove a basket one day;...
September 21, 2016
After about 35 years of weekly gatherings, the members of my spiritual support group are...
September 13, 2016
Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, grew up in a small Texas town....
September 03, 2016
According to an IRS rule, churches (and other non-profits) “are absolutely prohibited from directly or...

August 2016

August 18, 2016
“It is not a sin to steal food if you are starving.” That is what...
August 15, 2016
All ethnic groups experience a tension between the old world and the new world. First...
August 07, 2016
Chicago White Sox hurler Chris Sale forgot that he is a member of a powerful...
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