Every age rdquo Ilia Delio O S F writes ldquo must discover Christ anew rdquo In her latest book Christ in Evolution she suggests how we might proceed on the road that leads to just that discovery in our own time Scientific theories especially the theory of evolution often pose difficul

Mark 6 34-56 no 19 Oct 13 The Twelve have returned from preaching repentance and performing miracles to support their trustworthiness Jesus has asked them to come away to rest a sign Mark indicates which shows the extreme attraction of all that Jesus is The crowds will not let Jesus an

In a globalized world money flows like blood coursing through interconnected veins and capillaries nbsp into the furthest corners connecting up different parts in the most astonishing ways Like blood money can go toxic and when it does all those different parts are affected And they put up ba

Toyota has a new television commercial in which the line saved by zero is sung over and over Since I have no idea what the kids listen to anymore except my own - and yes what they listen to scares me just like my punk albums scared my parents - I was not certain if Toyota was digging into so

Pope Benedict XVI has been speaking about his predecessor Pope Pius XII in very favorable terms lately specifically at the world Synod of Bishops when he explicitly mentioned Pius s response to the Holocaust nbsp All this has raised expectations that nbsp his beatification may be imminent nb

Last night I was part of a panel sponsored by the Boisi Center here at Boston College to discuss the Catholic vote in the 2008 election Our host was Alan Wolfe who is America rsquo s leading non-Catholic expert on Catholicism My co-panelist was Amy Sullivan read her latest column in Time magazin

Is it foolish NRSV Galatians or stupid NAB Galatians It s so hard to know and so hard for a Galatian to catch a break one way or the other Paul writes in a polemical style common among ancient writers but jarring to our ears It is hard to imagine a papal encyclical beginning with stupid

The Greek words that lie behind the English translations of justify justification and righteousness in the letters of Paul are the verb dikaioo and the nouns dikaios and dikaiosyne This Greek verb and associated nouns originally referred to justice and the results of justice delivered that is

With the mission of the Twelve underway Mark has asked his reader to look beyond the life of Jesus to the continuation of God s offer of His kingdom to those who repent As their mission proceeds they keep central the call to repentance so as to enjoy the Kingdom and support their call with ast

Readers of America s special Eleciton Blog will be familiar by now with Rick Garnett who teaches law at Notre Dame Rick s main blogging home is at Mirror of Justice and he has recently posted some commentary on the economic meltdown that are well worth reading if you want to get a thoughtful co

America s special Election Blog is running a Blog Contest Due to a scheduling complication the original deadline has been pushed back from tomorrow until next Wednesday october 15 The contest is open to both high school and college students For more details click here

The economic crisis has changed many calculations Certainly if Barack Obama wins his most important choice may be his new Secretary of the Treasury a job that became vastly more influential with the passage of the Bailout last week But if history is any guide another Cabinet post may prove just

Yesterday I walked under high bright blue sky leaves slipping away from green into pre-death red flares in October chill across the Fordham campus on my way to the New York Botanical Garden The path from my office to the gate leads by Fordham Preparatory School and my first time ever walking b

Last night rsquo s town hall debate was not exactly newsworthy John McCain announced a proposal to buy up all bad mortgages in the country as a further step towards solving the economic crisis an idea that was quickly condemned by his own base Barack Obama suggested that despite the cost of his

The first reading for October 8 is Galatians 2 1-2 7-14 but we will look at the whole of the chapter Paul moves to explain the acceptance of the Gospel he preaches by the Church as a whole and he describes his encounter with the Apostolic Council in Jerusalem described also in Acts 15 Paul doe

As in the past so now does Mark present the theme of rejection after astounding miracles The rejection this time comes from his native place specifically from the synagogue attendees in Nazareth The intended irony of the story is that these long-time neighbors and friends of Jesus should

Here s a trailer of what looks like a wonderful new movie in post-production about the Mighty Macs the storied womens basketball team from Immaculata College run by the IHM sisters in sylvan nbsp Immaculata Pennsylvania The team nbsp won the first national women s basketball champi

The moral dimension of the Wall Street meltdown took center stage yesterday first in Rome and later in Washington In Rome the Holy Father referred to the crisis in his opening remarks to the Synod of Bishops which began its deliberations yesterday Referring to worldly things Pope Benedict XVI s

I think of yesterday s first reading 1 6-12 as the opening of the Body of the letter The omission of the Thanksgiving strikes me even now as a little shocking because even in situations that seem to have run out of control in other cities think Corinth Paul manages more than a perfunctory Tha

Here s news from Fresno California courtesy of the local news station there about Father Geoffrey Farrow who opposed California s Proposition 8 and also revealed that he is gay in a homily on Sunday From the local media Father Geoffrey Farrow of the Saint Paul Newman Center in northeast