Soul searching in economic hard times
Sins of the Wallet - Carl Anderson, Father Robert Sirico, Frank J. Hanna, et al.
Economic hard times are always times of soul-searching and a good time to look at the underlying moral dimensions of the economic downturn.
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Alex Beam, a columnist for the Boston Globe, set out to write a book that wasn't great -- and, mirabile dictu, he has succeeded.
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Students once identified with Schulz's patient, hard-working also-ran. But today, everyone expects recognition -- even if they fail.
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While Congress spends -- and plans to spend -- like the proverbial drunken sailor to "bailout" various industries for practices that are largely their fault and the fault of those in Congress who were supposed to provide oversight, another deficit looms which is at least as troubling as the economic one.
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In A Short World History of Christianity, Robert Bruce Mullin offers us, not a theological interpretation of history but a concise narrative of the Church's life in the world -- the Church's life between "Redemption" and "the Kingdom of God."
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It seems that while American women are making great strides in public life, our daughters are enduring agonizing struggles in private.
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Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win.
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One of the deepest mysteries of life is that of happiness.
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Fr. Newman’s parishioners came to Mass in large numbers this weekend and applauded so long when he began his homily that they only quieted down when he turned and knelt to the Blessed Sacrament.
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EDITORIALS OF INTEREST
"Gethsemane" in Context - Whispers in the loggia
Last week's comments by the major penitentiary of the church Cardinal James Francis Stafford have circulated far and wide since the Baltimore-born prelate offered his impressions on the incoming administration in a lecture at DC's Catholic University of America late last week.
Catholic Charities USA Named Top Provider of Social Services - Market Watch
In 2007 Catholic Charities provided services to 7,736,855 people nationwide. In all, 171 main Catholic Charities agenciesprovided food, clothing, counseling, disaster relief, financial assistance and an array of vital community-based services 13,919,070 times last year.
An age of barbarism - The Spectator
Twenty years ago, I started writing about the breakdown of the family, the systematic undermining of moral constraints and the ascendancy of 'lifestyle choice', a doctrine which forbade condemnation of any lifestyle as harmful.
Bush Abortion Proposal Raises Ire of Health Groups - Wall Street Journal
Opposition is building to a Bush administration proposal that would give health providers more leverage to refuse to participate in abortions or other treatments they oppose on religious or moral grounds.
The Formerly Middle Class - New York Times
Recessions are about more than material deprivation. They're also about fear and diminished expectations. The cultural consequences of recessions are rarely uplifting.
Birth defects linked with assisted reproduction - Chicago Tribune
Babies born to couples who rely on medical technology to become pregnant have much higher rates of certain birth defects.
Requiem at Oxford - Upside down blogspot
My friend Fra Lawrence Lew OP takes splendid photographs of the various events of Catholic renewal of the liturgy that take place in Oxford.
Online Catholic TV programs - Salt & Light
A list of the series and programs available online from Salt & Light.
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