October 29, 2020
“Few of the documents,” writes the historian John O’Malley, “bumped along such a rough road as Nostra Aetate.”[1] It’s a remarkable story—tense and dramatic—the story behind this very brief Declaration of the Second Vatican Council. It all began in September 1960 when Saint Pope John XXIII asked Augustin Cardinal Bea, a German Jesuit biblical scholar and […]
October 25, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. It was the prophet Jeremiah that was doomed to preach the doom of the kingdom of Judah, a calling to which he was faithful all his bitter life. Preaching to a people too proud of their heritage, too presumptuous and assured of the blessing of God upon them, they […]
October 22, 2020
“But to live a just and holy life,” St. Augustine writes, is “to love things, that is to say, in the right order.”
October 18, 2020
Click here to listen to this homily. The idea that we should care for the sick and the suffering is, of course, relatively new in the history of humanity.
October 15, 2020
They were trying to trick Jesus, get him in trouble with the Romans. That’s what’s behind Jesus’ comments on taxes, on rendering unto Caesar what’s his. Before we exploit his words for some preconceived economics or politics, we should understand context, what he may have really meant.
October 9, 2020
“My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?” (Matt. 22:12) Such is the parable’s critical question, the critical question for those to whom Jesus first spoke, the critical question for us.