Dulce et decorum est? Is it sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland?
Trillions of dollars later, with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis dead, and with tens of thousands of American soldiers dead and wounded, that hubristic enterprise has given rise to threats...
View ArticleThe death penalty: Catholics and Colorado candidates
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s decision last year to grant a “temporary reprieve” blocking the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Nathan Dunlop has, it seems, satisfied no one. Death penalty...
View ArticleWould Daddy drop the A-Bomb? Moral choices in a time of perpetual war
It's been suggested that a generation has grown up in this country in continual war. The author was thinking of the most recent generation; I can make a case that even the Baby Boomers are that...
View ArticlePope Francis'"no" to death penalty and inhumane imprisonment
I have written before about the “the remarkable shift in Catholic teaching about the death penalty.” Now, courtesy of Vatican Radio, comes a major address by Pope Francis to members of the...
View ArticleRace in America and overdue justice, human and divine
The sad and tragic truth is that America was built on explicitly racist foundations from the very beginning.
View ArticleFrancis and his predecessors: Thoughts on the post-war papacy
I find myself largely admiring these (popes). Yes, I know the criticisms and agree with many of them – especially those about patriarchy and clericalism, about stacking the ranks of bishops with...
View ArticleWho gave grace a black eye? When churches are exclusive ...
Who gave grace-filled eyes a black eye? Who placed signs on front doors of churches, “Sinners need not apply,” or, "the Gospel is preached here, but not for any unclean person in our church?”
View ArticleMuslims and Christians – Some good news out of Africa
The work ... has less to do with doctrinal dialogue than with bringing Christians and Muslims together to work on problems of poverty and human rights (especially violence against women), political...
View ArticleAfter the Charleston church murders: Amazing, costly grace
Yet far more important, (Obama's) eulogy grew gradually into a Christian sermon at a worship service, calling the nation to difficult openness to God’s grace.
View ArticleWhat the myth of revenge tells us about terrorism, refugees and reverence
Confronted by the faces of terrorists, contributor John Kane calls us to resist the revenge and be inspired to reverence by the faces of refugees.
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