“I love the Church.” This is the answer I give when people ask me why I’m on my seventh year of school working on yet another theological degree, or when DC Uber drivers ask why I moved to the district. I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school from kindergarten through eighth grade and Catholic… Read More In the Wake of Another Crisis, Remembering Who the Church is
via the Washington Post: The Washington Post debuted its first Super Bowl commercial — a message underscoring the importance of newsgathering and the dangers journalists can face — during Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams…. The advertisement briefly showed several slain and missing journalists affiliated with The Post and… Read More Super Bowl Ad Highlights the Importance of a Free Press and Brave Journalists
EJ Dionne writes: Our core problem is a dogmatic antigovernment attitude…that arose in the 1970s and ’80s. This makes it impossible for us to have a constructive debate about what government is for, what tasks it should take on and what good it actually does. In truth, the whole antigovernment thing is fundamentally fraudulent. So… Read More Anti-Government Ideology and Hypocrisy Undermines the Common Good
At Grotto Network, Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: When distorted by hyper-individualism, being authentic can become associated with things that are superficial and ephemeral, behavior and preferences that are unrelated to who a person is at their core — their deepest values and the unique position that each occupies in the world of persons. A… Read More Social Media Friendships Might Be More Special Than We Realize
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Historian Rutger Bregman told those in attendance that they need to talk about billionaires paying their fair share in taxes, if they really care about justice and the other ideals they have been espousing. Watch the video:
Cardinal Joseph Tobin writes: A wall would probably drive them into more remote areas of the desert or mountains, possibly to their deaths, as the forces driving them — violence, persecution and extreme poverty — are more life threatening than a risky border crossing. In fact, close to 8,000 migrants have died in Arizona and… Read More Cardinal Joe: Trump’s Immoral Wall Threatens Lives, Is Based on Lies and Anti-Immigrant Agenda
At Where Peter Is, Mike Lewis writes: The Magisterium is the teaching office of the Church. According the the Catechism (#100), “The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the bishops in communion with him.” In other… Read More The Imagisterium vs. the Actual Magisterium
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