Reflections On Giving Thanks
The Gospel passage selected for Thanksgiving Day, 2016 was the story of the ten lepers that Jesus cleansed: “Now one [...]
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11, 2016
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11, 2016
A Crucial Education Reform
With a new administration comes renewed hope of meaningful education reform. Among the most needed reforms is one that ought [...]
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11, 2016
The Challenge of Healing America
Throughout Election Day I suffered from what might be termed anticipatory depression. I dreaded that the outcome shamefully engineered by [...]
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11, 2016
Envisioning America in 2050
Forecasting the future is an inexact enterprise at best. Yet examining current conditions and trends is a helpful way of [...]
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10, 2016
The Catholic Vote in 2016
According to most reports, a majority of Catholics intend to vote for Hillary Clinton this year. The reason, at least [...]
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10, 2016
Theology Confounded
A friend recently recommended a slender spiritual book, Poverty of Spirit. Written by Johannes Baptist Metz, a German Catholic theologian, [...]
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10, 2016
My Political Disgust
Call me a malcontent, if you wish, but I am disgusted with most politicians, their paid spokespeople, and the media [...]
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10, 2016
Thinking Catholic with Mike Pence
The Vice-Presidential debate provided a perfectly articulated argument for the traditional Catholic view of a politician’s obligation regarding abortion. Ironically, [...]
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09, 2016
The Marriage of Denial and Groupthink
When psychologists begin to ponder liberals’ refusal to acknowledge Islamic terrorism, they will likely stumble over one another in their [...]
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09, 2016
Isn’t Self-Esteem a Good Thing?
A perceptive friend told me that, though she agrees with my often-expressed criticism of the self-esteem movement (see, for example, [...]