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Our work for justice must flow naturally out of our being in love with those for whom there is no justice. Otherwise our activism is nothing more than a “sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”
In a memo from a fellow Yankees fan, Manhattanites were reminded that the 300-year-old parish is, in fact, still there.
Varley joins Goldman Sachs International adviser Brian Griffiths and Lazard International Chairman Ken Costa as London bankers who’ve gone into London churches in recent weeks and invoked Christianity to defend a banking system that critics say has created wealth and inequality in the U.K.
Pew Internet finds that contrary to what it might look like, all those hours on our laptops and cell phones are bolstering our social lives.
You know how some cowardly muggers target little old ladies because they’re usually slow, frail and unlikely to fight back? Well, the exact same dynamic, though in intellectual rather than bag-grabbing terms, can be seen in the radical-atheist assaults on Mother Teresa.
Not sure what’s causing the glitch, but our Café notes stopped posting on Wednesday to both Twitter and Facebook. The problem appears to be with the backend we use to pipe things to Twitterfeed and Facebook, so we’ll be beating that with a virtual hammer until it cooperates again. The end result is that it’s been relatively quiet this week–but not totally so.
As a priest and an outspoken member of Executive Council, Winnie Varghese wonders if the “listening process” has begun to bear fruit on the other side of the globe.
We have been entrusted with the administration and use of temporal wealth for the common good, not with the everlasting ownership of private property. If you accept the fact that ownership on earth is only for a time,