Perspective
An education for kindness
Like many, I enjoyed watching the video clips of Prince George starting school. I am taken, though, with the choice of school by his parents, one that departs from prior […]
Columns Archive
Perspective
The hollow man
What savagery lies in the breast of man? Two recent television epics ask us to contemplate this question. The first is Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s magnificent documentary, “The Vietnam […]
Bishop's Column: In Truth and Charity
The Gospel of Life is the Gospel of Mercy
Bishop Rhoades delivered the following homily during Mass at the Afternoon of Prayerful Remembrance and Intercession on October 8th at the University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne: October is Respect […]
The Human Condition
Some takeaways from Tolkien
I have to confess, with some embarrassment, that one of my human deficiencies is that while I read quite a lot, I am not much of a fiction reader. So, […]
The Sunday Gospel
What will we, the Lord’s vineyard, choose to yield?
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 21:33-43 The first section of the Book of Isaiah is the source of this weekend’s first reading. In this reading, the prophet speaks directly […]
Perspective
Transmigration of theological nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke for many self-identified progressive Catholics when she told […]
A more human society
Discerning the spirits
Given a tough question, St. Thomas Aquinas sometimes declined to give a simple yes or no answer. Instead he began with: “distinguo.” The question can be taken different ways; we […]
Perspective
Pastoral formation: jumping into reality
There were many opportunities for me to grow while I was working construction and out in the field during my high school and early college summers. A common situation for […]
Bishop's Column: In Truth and Charity
The rule of law and freedom of conscience
The following is the text of Bishop Rhoades’ homily at the Red Masses on October 2 and 3: The Red Mass is a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit in […]
Perspective
Sex in accord with reason
An article published in 2012 in The Atlantic described the sexual practices of the Aka and Ngandu people, who live in the tropical forests of central Africa. Researchers Barry and […]
The Sunday Gospel
The Lord stands ready to forgive us, if we repent
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 21:28-32 The Book of Ezekiel provides this weekend’s first reading. Pivotal in Jewish history was the time spent by Hebrew captives, and by their […]
Perspective
Is this bloodshed really necessary?
A book review by David McClamrock From my first year in law school, I remember the excellent advice of Irving Younger: Briefly make the points you need to make, and […]