Commentary

June 6, 2018

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

The beginning of a lifelong conversation

The following homily was delivered by Cardinal Cupich at the May 19 priests’ ordination Mass. Welcome to all of you. My special greeting goes to the parents, families and friends of the ordinandi. I know that some of you have traveled long distances. We are blessed to have each one of you here today.

June 20, 2018

By Father Donald Senior, CP

July 8: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Cost of discipleshipThe “Cost of Discipleship” is the title of a famous book written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young Lutheran pastor and theologian who lived during the Nazi era in Germany. A brilliant and winsome man, he had spent some time studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

June 6, 2018

By Monsignor Michael Boland

New Tolton Peace Center

On May 24, Catholic Charities was honored to have Cardinal Cupich bless our newest service location, the Father Augustus Tolton Peace Center and the beautiful peace garden in the community of Austin. Catholic Charities was thrilled to be offered this space, which was a generous gift from Austin Bank of Chicago and enables us to bring a host of new programs and the promise of hope to an area challenged by violence, poverty, homelessness and unemployment.

June 20, 2018

By Michelle Martin

That’s incredible

There’s something a little too ironic about going to a movie on hot June day to watch a family of cartoon superheroes battle to vanquish a new supervillain named “Screenslaver,” an evil genius who controls people — both normal and heroic — by hypnotizing them through the screens they watch.

June 20, 2018

By Bishop Robert Barron

A reflection on the Irish referendum

I will confess that as a person of Irish heritage on both sides of my family, I found the events in Ireland recently particularly dispiriting. Not only did the nation vote on May 25, by a two-to-one margin, for the legal prerogative to kill their children in the womb, but they also welcomed and celebrated the vote with a frankly sickening note of gleeful triumph.

June 18, 2018

By Father James F. Keenan, SJ

Romans 13 and unjust laws

On June 14, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions described “concerns raised by our church friends about separating families” as “not fair or logical.” He then cited Scripture to support his position:

April 25, 2018

By Don Wycliff

Writing the script of our lives

I recently attended a workshop on trauma and emotional resilience in children for people who work in the child-welfare system. The keynote speaker kept coming back to one theme: Each of us must write the script of his or her own life.

May 23, 2018

By Kerry Alys Robinson

Life and legacy of Tom Ullmann

Hundreds of people attended the funeral of my friend and neighbor of more than 20 years, Tom Ullmann. Rabbi Herb Brockman welcomed us, all brokenhearted, to Congregation Mishkan Israel by remarking on how fitting it was to remember Tom in the same sacred space in which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had once preached about justice.

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