Mary’s titles, Mother of the Living and the New Eve remind us of Christ's mission to make all things new. Last week's news brought us graphic images of how much our earth needs renewal, beginning with the massive destruction of floods in Germany and in China. Closer to home, Sunday's news told of nearly 300 [...]
Last week Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that the DACA. Created in 2012, DACA granted some undocumented immigrants who had been brought to the United States temporary protection from deportation and legal permission to seek employment and higher education. As noted previously in this blog, a large percentage of our essential workers in health care, education [...]
Through Mary, we have been birthed into the freedom that is Christ’s gift. Last week as we celebrated Independence Day, we experienced national concerns similar to those identified by Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist and escaped slave when on July 5, 1852, he spoke to the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, N.Y of what July [...]
Like Mary, we are called to consider our personal, national and even global experiences in light of God's call to loving service. The first anniversary of George Floyd's death, Memorial Day, and the centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, give us ample cause for prayer and reflection A number of states have instituted changes in [...]
Nearly five months after the January 6th breach of the Capitol, the scene remains vivid in our minds. On the day Vice President Pence was to oversee the certification of the November 2020 election, Capitol police rushed him and members of Congress out of the meeting room and into more secure locations as the crowd [...]
Last week’s ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, the largest United States fuel pipeline, demonstrated the need to restore public trust, to strengthen public/private joint endeavors and to evaluate and strengthen cybersecurity. Lasting about five days, the shutdown caused severe gas shortages along the Eastern coast. President Biden lifted regulations in order to allow trucks [...]
Seat of Wisdom and Mother of Mercy-- titles of the Blessed Mother-- remind us that reason and mercy are complimentary qualities that should inform the decisions we make as individuals and as a society. Wisdom, reason, and compassion must play a role in our efforts to reform the many parts of the justice system as [...]
As we move through Easter season. we can't help but think of the amazement and overwhelming joy Mary must have felt on Easter. As Simeon had prophesied, Mary experienced some extraordinary sorrows as Mother of the Redeemer, but she must also have experienced the day to day concerns we all experience in our care for [...]
Michelangelo’s Pieta, one of the artist’s most familiar and moving works, depicts Mary holding the broken body of Christ. Although we are still pilgriming through Lent, that image is particularly apt as we remember the anniversary of the pandemic declaration and the loss we have endured. As Mother of the Church, Mary continues to hold [...]
After a lengthy, argumentative process, the stimulus bill was passed by the Senate, then sent to the House for final approval and signed by President Biden. The pandemic aid plan is necessarily broad and multifaceted, aiming to restore economic, social, and physical health to individuals, businesses, communities, and the nation. The passage of the bill [...]
