The Good Word

The USA is often portrayed as the ldquo Greatest Country in the World rdquo or conversely nbsp the ldquo Great Satan rdquo the place to fulfill the American Dream or the Boulevard of Broken Dreams On September 11 2001 the reality of both of those categorizations met when planes were flown i

If one has been the victim of a profoundly evil act how does one mdash or rather how should one mdash respond By a profoundly evil act I do not mean that one is simply the recipient of some unkindness that chafes but is quickly healed but truly the recipient of a life-altering injustice so

Monsignor Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington wrote an online post on September 1 which stated that ldquo Jesus Was no ldquo Girlie-man rdquo On Restoring a Truer Vision of the Biblical Jesus from the 20th Century Remake rdquo In this article Monsignor Pope claims that images of Jes

ldquo All you need is love rdquo sang the Beatles and we should not overlook the fact that Jesus and Paul were singing the same song as John and Paul far earlier and from a song sheet developed in ancient Israel Admittedly the early Christians developed the tune in a particular manner riffing

The Apostle Paul writes I do not understand my own actions For I do not do what I want but I do the very thing I hate Now if I do what I do not want I agree that the law is good But in fact it is no longer I that do it but sin that dwells within me For I know that nothing good dwells within

I was greeted on nbsp my Facebook page late this afternoon with a discussion regarding a blog post on which nbsp a number of my colleagues were commenting hat-tip to Gerald Schlabach The post is by Lillian Daniel a UCC Church minister on the reading Matthew 16 18 And I tell you that you are P

The British philosopher Gillian Rose spent her brief life arguing against a basic presumption of modern life one that goes something like this now that almost everyone can be heard and now that we realize how profoundly we disagree about the most important aspects and values in life let rsquo s

We are pleased to publish this guest post from Mark Scalese S J Fr Scalese is an associate professor in the Department of Visual amp Performing Arts at Fairfield University His documentary short Greetings from Havre de Grace is a winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award and has aired on Maryla

ldquo I need advice about my marriage rdquo nbsp She was certainly direct brushing aside the question I had proffered to open our conversation about her four children all of whom were in our parochial school nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp ldquo Okay Tell me about your marriage rdquo ldquo

The Readings for Sunday August 28 the nbsp Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 20 7-9 Psalm 63 2-9 Romans 12 1-2 Matthew 16 21-27 raise nbsp two questions one simple and one complex nbsp How does it feel to suffer What does it mean to suffer Suffering consumes the body ev