Radical Catholics: Remembering The Catonsville Nine
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We've got a poverty problem in this country, paired with leaders who won't even say the word "poverty," let alone solve the problem. We have a political class that is so far removed from the hardships of a normal life that they can't even connect with the middle class, let alone the poor. In Washington, the pervasive dominance of money in politics has made it nearly impossible for the stories and hardships of the poor to make headway into the national conversations. The poor don't have lobbyists or super PACs, and they certainly don't have a real commitment in the party platforms at the conventions this season. So people of faith and conscience will keep beating the drum about poverty and asking each candidate, every candidate, what their policies will do to the least of these.
We can strengthen our efforts to end poverty at home by taking some tips from leaders in the developing world.
"He shouldn't wrap himself in Catholic teaching because he is not using that [teaching] in what I would say is a balanced way," Father Stephen Umhoefer said.
My sojourn to the festival in the desert verified something: This is the most widespread example that America has at consciously creating a modern mythology.
I'm a religious person with a lifelong passion for civil rights, so this is of great interest to me. So much so, that I believe we all need to determine whether our religious liberties are indeed at risk.
If a candidate were proclaimed an ambassador of the Roman Catholic church or of the South or of the Ivy League educated, wouldn't we insist upon knowing exactly what this meant before we sent the man to the White House?
More than 80 percent of all acid attacks are committed against women. Men are the common denominator -- not Islam. No sizable race, religion, country or custom is immune from this vile crime.
Apparently, leading a civilian diplomacy delegation to Iran and supporting the work of Jewish Voice for Peace is enough to make a person a pariah. The RJC is taking advantage of the Jewish divide on Israel to bring more people to Romney.
Amid the usual business of hosting a large-scale event, some strange things are afoot in the North Carolina. Long ago the prophet Isaiah had a vision of strange things happening when God's blessing and reign breaks forth and is fully realized.
Mitt Romney's latest TV ad, featuring Blessed John Paul II and Lech Wałęsa, got one thing right. The former pope and son of Poland did say "Be not afraid" in 1979. Beyond that, however, the ad distorts reality in a number of ways
Politicians and pundits of all persuasions should get it into their heads that making analogies to the Holocaust or Nazi Germany in the context of 21st century U.S. politics is not just unseemly but borders on, if not crosses over into, the obscene.
Despite inheriting a wrecked economy, President Obama has indeed moved our nation in the right direction in ways that advance the common good. We need Barack Obama to continue the hard work of repairing our nation.
Although it's hard to fathom that any churchman would still be so confused about the criminality of adult priests committing sex acts with juveniles, we should be grateful that Groeschel gives us the chance to review the Church's problem with sex and power.
Much in the way we have gotten used to taking pills to solve our emotional issues as a country, we believe that all our problems can be solved with an external act. But shootings are exposing something. Something that America needs to see if it plans to thrive again as a nation.
Fighting back the hot, angry tears threatening to spill from my own eyes, I looked into the eyes of the people who were celebrating my pain. There was no sympathy, no concern, no remorse in the face of the sorrow they were witnessing.
Mormons believe that they are a modern Israel led by modern prophets, and they see the voice of those prophets as having special authority. Repudiating such prophetic voices feels disloyal, like rejecting the Bible, which is, after all, a collection of prophetic voices from the past.
Mr. Romney is trying to ingratiate himself with the religious right without getting his hands dirty by acknowledging too close a relationship with those who shamelessly have used conservative Christianity for outright partisan political purposes.
King David danced in our midst, and so (so to speak) does God! We now stand in the Courtyard with our divine Majesty, savoring this greater intimacy. But there remains some distance.
Our world is full of enemies, and we tend to fight them, not meet them. What Occupy hasn't seen is how we can work to become so united as a people.
Dr. Faheem Younus, 2012. 5.09
