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Pope Francis revealed in interview how European cardinals badgered him with questions during a lunch between voting sessions

I realize that the “love and justice” part of reading the Bible with a bias toward love and justice might sound a little vague. So I want to offer another I want to offer another angle on "love and justice," with a few more specifics. The angle: aligning our biases with God’s. 

The preferential option for the poor', that teaching concerning our obligation to show a love of preference to the poor, never left! It is found in the 25th chapter of Matthews Gospel, reflected upon ...

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From Father Andrew Greeley in 1989: The R.C.I.A. has converted the sacramental experience into an obstacle course, a series of barriers to be surmounted, a list of tests to be passed.

The Church must speak up to be relevant, but those who seek to ‘speak for the church’ must be brave. They risk exposing themselves to claims of bias unless they stick to a very narrow agenda and speak in extremely measured terms. Yet if they are too bland they risk being irrelevant to the sharp end of political debate and their intervention becomes little more than a symbolic ritual. By John Warhurst

Introduction The theme for the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2021 is “Information as a public good” per UNESCO, and the day was observed in Nigeria as elsewhere according to tradition. It is a day to Promote the Freedom of the Press, to Fight Against Oppressive or Tyrannical Governments that seek to curtail this fundamental right, and also a day to honour our fallen heroes – innocent journalists like Dele Giwa, Bagauda Kaltho and Chinedu Offoaro who lost their lives at the hands of brut...

(Part II) An antidote (not the only one) to the rise of consumerism is Catholic Social Doctrine.  From the beginning of the modern Catholic social thought in the pathbreaking encyclical of Pope Leo XIII entitled Rerum Novarum (A New Order) in 1892, popes have cautioned that growing consumerism has been a threat to Human Dignity, Solidarity,  the Preferential Option for the Poor, the Common God, and, more recently, Care for Creation.  The emphasis on accumulating more and more wealth and cons...