This Sunday’s Gospel passage is an all-time classic: the story of the Good Samaritan. There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said… Read More Three Thoughts on Sunday’s Gospel: The Good Samaritan
Today is Malala Day, named after the extraordinary, courageous Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. Malala remains a fierce proponent of education for all, even after being shot in the head by members of the Taliban and seeing her friends murdered. As she said earlier today, “They thought that the bullet would silence us…but they failed.” Malala… Read More Malala at the UN: Education for All
Michael Sean Winters has an excellent article in Religion & Politics on Pope Francis’ economic vision. Among those quoted is Millennial writer Meghan Clark, who gave her thoughts on the subject: “His language is striking—showing a very clear moral evaluation of the actual system we live in. Referring to the ‘slave-labor’ in Bangladesh, the ‘cult… Read More Meghan Clark Quoted in Religion & Politics
Remember those critics who thought Pope Francis was “too soft” to be the leader of the universal Church? They were wrong. Pope Francis has laid down the law again. On Thursday, the Vatican announced that Francis in a motu propio had significantly strengthened the punishments against child sex abusers convicted on Vatican grounds. who are employed… Read More Breaking: Pope Francis throws the book at child sex abusers
Pope Francis released the fantastic new encyclical “Lumen Fidei” (“Light of Faith”) on Friday, which Pope Benedict started before his resignation this past winter. Encyclicals are the most important form of papal teaching and comprise much of the vast body of our Catholic social tradition. Here is a collection of some of the quotes from… Read More Lumen Fidei Casts Light on Key Catholic Social Teachings
Humility prevents me from giving this post the title ‘Top 23 Quotes from Lumen Fidei’, so I will simply say that these are the passages that caught my eye as I read the encyclical, which was released earlier today: “Yet in the absence of light everything becomes confused; it is impossible to tell good from… Read More 23 Quotes from Lumen Fidei
The second Fortnight for Freedom wraps up today. It would be difficult to say that it has been a sterling success. Certainly some Catholics have benefited from thinking about religious freedom and threats to this fundamental human right. But it has done little to penetrate the larger culture and it has not generated a great… Read More Fortnight for Freedom III: Freedom from Want, Please
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