Today’s feast would have created huge problems for Jesus’ earliest followers.
Scripture scholars and church historians often point out the conflicts the historical Jesus and his first disciples experienced when their Jewish reform movement came into contact with the Roman Empire.
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: GENDER, POWER, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
By Marie Keenan
Published by Oxford University Press, $62.50
Live theater is always fresh even when the story breaks your heart. "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" is no different.
It’s impossible to understand today’s first and third readings without an appreciation of the idea of biblical apocalyptic literature.
The Bible isn’t a book, it’s a library. Not only does it include books written by different authors at various times, but, like any library, it contains works composed in different genres. We need only walk into our local library and look at the names above the bookshelves to surface those genres: history, fiction, reference, biography, etc.
WHAT MONEY CAN’T BUY: THE MORAL LIMITS OF MARKETS
By Michael J. Sandel
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27
In 1996, Fabian Bruskewitz, then Lincoln's bishop, issued a blanket decree excommunicating anyone part of Call To Action Nebraska. Where are they now?
Diane Dougherty, 67, became a fleeting media sensation Oct. 20 with her ordination in the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests.
My Table is Spread: Religious freedom does not mean the freedom to think, a power, one presumes, even oppressive regimes cannot hold over citizens.
Engineers Without Borders is just one example of how engineers of all ages help make the world a better place.
While women's ordination is seemingly out of bounds, what is emerging is an open discussion about ordaining women to the permanent diaconate.
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