This Sunday’s responsorial psalm (Go out to all the world and tell the Good News) has me thinking about being sent. Here are three very different examples of sending, and how they might relate to our lives as disciples: 1) Third Base Coach Sending a Runner Home I’ve been paying more attention to baseball over the… Read More Go Out To All the World: The Art of Sending
Of my many quirks, one of the most distinctive is that I hate to sleep. I really do. Every night when I finally turn off the lights, it’s like a personal failure for me. Five and a half to six hours of sleep a night is pretty standard, and should I find my eyes closed… Read More Why I Hate Sleep
A few months ago, I wrote an article imploring Pope Francis to finish Benedict XVI’s encyclical on faith. My rationale? The theological virtues exegesis that began with Benedict XVI’s encyclicals on hope (Spe Salvi) and charity (Deus Caritas Est) was incomplete without a corresponding papal discussion of faith. It was the appropriate hour, during the… Read More Ghostwriting the Faith: Reflections on Pope Francis’ Lumen Fidei
Millennial writer Meghan Clark has a new article on The Lancet Global Health Blog. The article, Knowledge is power: the ethical ambiguity of evidence-based medicine in global health, explores important questions in global health. Clark argues: Neonatal mortality is a global health crisis. The effectiveness of our efforts to combat this crisis will depend upon… Read More Meghan Clark in The Lancet
Today is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which you can read all about here. To celebrate our awesome mother, I’m going to take a close look at today’s Gospel reading, which includes the Magnificat – my favorite Scripture passage. Some context: In Luke’s gospel, after Gabriel appears to Mary and tells… Read More Happy Feast of the Assumption: Close-Reading the Magnificat
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a brilliant scholar and thinker, died on Sunday. RR Reno has provided some initial thoughts in First Things: Jean was one of the indispensable voices of cultural and political sanity in the post-sixties. She cared deeply about the common good, and she recognized that faith, family, and patriotic solidarity ennobled the lives… Read More Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1941-2013
In the latest instance of reaching out to everyday people during his papacy, Pope Francis personally responded to a letter he received from a grieving man (whose brother had been gunned down and killed) by picking up the phone and calling him. The Telegraph has the story: Michele Ferri wrote a letter to the Pope… Read More Another Thoughtful Gesture from Pope Francis
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