Author: Jim Naughton

pontificalmass.org announces change in celebrant

The decision to cancel the cardinal’s participation came after a number of local priests said they would not attend the service. On Tuesday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called on Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl to stop the cardinal from celebrating the Mass, saying it would send the wrong message.

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Are we judges or lawyers?

Paul Bloom in Nature says while modern psychology may be have it right that a moral sense is biological, it cannot explain how morals evolve:

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Remake us

Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you:

you are gentle with us like a mother with her children.

In your love and tenderness, remake us.

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Covenant-making, divine and human

God’s covenant with his people provides the context within which we make covenant commitments one to another. A biblical perspective on human covenant recognizes the way in which, in our small corner, we seek to mirror and reflect the greatest covenant of all. If we love because Christ first loved us, so we can live in covenant because God in Christ first lives in covenant with us.

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Have breakfast

I do not know why so many of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances have something to do with food, but they do. It happens twice in Luke—first on the road to Emmaus, where Jesus is made known to two of his disciples in the breaking of the bread, and then later, when he appears to them all and eats a piece of broiled fish in their presence.

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