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December 2017

December 06, 2017
Every preacher has a sermon ready for this weekend or next in a folder labeled...

November 2017

November 19, 2017
Contemporaries Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) and Charles Dickens (1812-1870) were concerned about the...
November 13, 2017
The grocery store was more congested than usual this morning because Christmas has taken over...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
Larry Keogh, a fellow teacher at our community college, began each semester by telling his...
October 24, 2017
Lousy writing is intentional, insists George Orwell (1903-1950). Shoddy writers may not be aware of...
October 03, 2017
Back in March 2017 I picked the Dodgers in our usually friendly betting pool. I...

September 2017

September 13, 2017
Death is the penalty we pay for Eve and Adam’s disobedience. How do we know?...

August 2017

August 29, 2017
I just returned from St. Paul. In the early 1970s, as part of the War...

July 2017

July 28, 2017
  Rev. Martin Luther King (1929-1968), one of our country’s foremost leaders in race relations,...
July 18, 2017
Back in 1992 New Jersey raised its minimum wage. Social scientists David Card and Alan...
July 01, 2017
I moved into Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood in the late 1970s and within seven years...

June 2017

June 21, 2017
An imprecise distinction can be made between the working poor and the poor; between episodic...

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....
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