Not as many as you may think — and David Gibson raises a few interesting issues in his New York Times piece: When Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree last month that nudged nearer to sainthood his controversial wartime predecessor, Pius XII, he sparked another round of the sort of Jewish-Catholic disputations that have marked…

My brother deacon Scott Dodge posted a little rumination this weekend on judging.   I judge it to be something we all need to read and ponder: It is an indisputable article of Christian faith that you will be judged. Each Sunday and on solemnities we recite the Credo and say: “He will come again in…

This Sunday, the people of Haiti gathered together wherever they good to offer prayers and pleadings to God. Many of their churches have been destroyed, but that didn’t stop them. From the New York Times: With their churches flattened, their priests killed and their Bibles lost amid the rubble of their homes, desperate Haitians prayed…

” As Moses taught in the Shema (cf. Dt 6:5; Lev 19:34) – and as Jesus reaffirms in the Gospel (cf. Mk 12:19-31), all of the Commandments are summed up in the love of God and loving-kindness towards one’s neighbour. This Rule urges Jews and Christians to exercise, in our time, a special generosity towards…

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