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July 2016

July 25, 2016
David Cloutier teaches Catholic ethics at Mt. St. Mary’s University in Maryland. The students give...
July 15, 2016
Too many people seem too sure about the causes and the cure for poverty. I...
July 11, 2016
Some philosophical and religious traditions look askance at fashion. Eastern religions, for example, focus on...

June 2016

June 10, 2016
It wasn’t so traumatic here when in the 1980s Los Angeles overtook Chicago, until then...
June 04, 2016
As anniversaries go, the 125th of modern Catholic social thought is a non-starter except perhaps...

May 2016

May 18, 2016
A religion-labor coalition appeared during the first decade of the 20th century, reversing the prior...
May 01, 2016
There is the world of meritocracy and the world of grace. There is the world...

April 2016

April 26, 2016
Outreach and mission must set a parish’s goals, not inherited routines or personality quirks of...
April 19, 2016
Domestic workers—nannies and eldercare assistants--are a major part of the growing personal service job sector....
April 10, 2016
Chaos reigns in high school classrooms and hallways when rules are too vague or are...

March 2016

March 24, 2016
In 1984 Msgr. Jack Egan (1916-2001), who at that time was director of Human Relations...
March 09, 2016
The formula for parish decline, indeed for the decline of any enterprise, is to maximize...
March 04, 2016
The term intrinsic evil is appropriate in a philosophy or theology classroom where students are...

February 2016

February 26, 2016
The phrase Godless world is popular with some presidential candidates. In recent months it has...
February 18, 2016
The late 1800s and early 1900s were boom years for U.S. Catholicism. Immigrants from Ireland,...
February 08, 2016
The coins on our counter and in our pockets carry the slogan “Out of Many,...

January 2016

January 16, 2016
The phrase new evangelization has entered the Catholic lexicon within the past dozen years or...
January 04, 2016
Michael Hsu, writing in The Wall St. Journal (1/3/16), rates meditation technologies. He examines those...

December 2015

December 12, 2015
There has always been a strain of anti-Catholicism in our country. For example, Catholics were...
December 04, 2015
It is impossible this month to worship in a Christian church and avoid cliché-ridden sermons...

November 2015

November 25, 2015
In the summer of 2014 Oracle, Arizona reflected back to us two defining cultural images....
November 11, 2015
Political scientist Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015), who died in October, fought against a dominant approach in...
November 06, 2015
She is the first U.S. citizen to be an official saint. But it almost didn’t...
November 01, 2015
This is the season for gratitude. First up is our national day of Thanksgiving on...

October 2015

October 30, 2015
Our Bears lost because of a disputed play. Actually, our Bears lose for several reasons....
October 26, 2015
According to a popular opinion, the National Rifle Association is the primary obstacle to gun...
October 04, 2015
Don Trump is out. Don Quixote is in. Worldly success is out. Regard for others...
October 01, 2015
October is a great month for saints: St. Therese Lisieux (the Little Flower), St. Boniface,...

September 2015

September 23, 2015
Rev. Martin Luther King (1929-1968) writes from jail in Summer 1963 to his fellow ministers....
September 09, 2015
Where does Pope Francis get his ideas on the economy? The same place as every...
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