For the Fifth Sunday and Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ash Wednesday, and the First Sunday and Second Sunday of Lent Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 4, 2024 Readings: Jb 7:1–4, 6–7 • Ps 147:1–2, 3–4, 5–6 • 1 Cor 9:16–19, 22–23 … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2024
Immigration and Solidarity
January 26, 2024 by Bishop Robert Brennan
Over the past year-and-a-half, over 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers have arrived in New York City. Like many municipalities around the United States, especially those close to the southern border, our city has struggled to provide … [Read more...]
The Moral Uncertainty of “Brain Death”
January 26, 2024 by Dr. Joseph M. Eble
1968 was a year of upheaval, perhaps best remembered by Americans for the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, and by Catholics for the promulgation of Humanae vitae. But the unobtrusive coining of a new definition … [Read more...]
Same Sex Attraction in Catholic Women who Desire to Live Chastely
January 26, 2024 by Fr. James McTavish
Abstract A growing number of Catholic women with same sex attraction (SSA) are interested to know the Catholic Church teaching on this issue. Thus far there are no specific Magisterial documents solely dedicated to women with same sex … [Read more...]
Cherishing and Respecting One’s Fertility
January 26, 2024 by Richard P. Maggi, Esq.
Discussions about ending marital fertility by vasectomy or tubal ligation, even among Catholics, can often be nonchalant as if this procedure is no big deal with no moral implications. Such an attitude is likely the product of a culture … [Read more...]
Revelation as Dialogical
Dei Verbum as a Hermeneutic for Praying with Theology
January 26, 2024 by Msgr. Walter Oxley
Understanding Divine Revelation in its first instance as the desire of the Father to communicate himself in love to human persons serves as an opportunity for more deeply integrating one’s intellectual life with one’s spiritual life. The mov … [Read more...]
Questions Answered – February 2024
January 26, 2024 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
Intentions in Jesus’ Moral Teaching Question: A Christian teacher states that the Sermon on the Mount contradicts the classic division of sin into mortal and venial. It does this by giving greater and greater punishment for lesser and l … [Read more...]
Book Reviews – February 2024
January 26, 2024 by Book Reviews
The Bible and Baptism: The Foundations of Salvation. By Isaac Augustine Morales, O.P. Reviewed by Randall Woodard. (skip to review) The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical … [Read more...]
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