The Poor Get Poorer
First, a heartwarming story out of Boston. Glen James, a homeless man in his 50s, was walking through a parking lot when he noticed a…
read moreSyria: How Can We Fix This?
Pope Francis caught even BuzzFeed’s attention over the weekend when expressing his views on possible foreign intervention in Syria via Twitter: War never again! Never…
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Why I’m Staying Catholic in the Face of the Clergy Abuse Scandal
As the director of campus ministry in a Catholic high school, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the clergy abuse scandal. Most all of…
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What Verses in the New Testament Are Aramaic?
Question: I know the New Testament was written in Greek. However I’ve been told that there are a few verses from Jesus in Aramaic. Are…
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Understanding and Celebrating the Feast of the Assumption
What the heck is the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven, you ask? The Assumption (August 15) refers to the Blessed…
read moreChristian Persecution in Today’s World
Rowan Williams, the erudite former Archbishop of Canterbury, lamented that some Christians in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other Western nations claim “persecution”…
read moreOn Race, A Divided Church
I was at a restaurant in the H Street corridor, a so-called up-and-coming neighborhood in northeast Washington, D.C., a couple weekends ago. Edison bulbs hung…
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