…But if you think that crowd of award winners was criticized how much more the crowd that Jesus chose as his base: the lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, and Samaritans. His valentines, his palentines, even more so, his “egalentines” – equal in dignity.
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I have never watched a Super Bowl game in my life…Sports…often devolves into a blame-game.
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Jesus’ healing, ministry and love is particular, is personal, is passionate about the individual in front of him, the one lost sheep, the one adulterous woman, the one divorced Samaritan
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Road construction is violent loud, chaotic and expensive. Today’s word, this advent season, announces an even more chaotic construction project one of global, even cosmic proportions…
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…in these days such apocalyptic readings remind us that humanity has upturned God’s created order that in our violence and greed we have allowed the aboriginal chaos to return that in our racism and xenophobia
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How do we speak truth, especially to power while maintaining the Jesus demeanor and not resorting to rhetorical, or political or even physical violence?
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This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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…and so we eschew the cup and reach for the ax…and while we often attempt to wield it toward another – another individual, another tribe – we so often end up axing our own…
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…every and any church that colludes in secret keeping they … we are responsible.
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“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
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