Today, in an attempt to shore-up his support among Roman Catholics, Donald Trump visited the John Paul II National Shrine in Washington D.C. America magazine has it covered here. Here is Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory: I find it baffling and...
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CREATE!: Teaching Tolkien’s “Leaf By Niggle”
Yesterday in Created and Called for Community (CCC) we read and discussed J.R.R. Tolkien’s short story “Leaf by Niggle.” Here is a summary of the plot from Wikipedia: In this story, an artist, named Niggle, lives in a society that...
Some Quick Thoughts on Bernie's Trip to the Vatican
Is it a bad a political move for Bernie Sanders to leave New York in the lead-up to the state’s primary in order to give an address at a conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the...
Has Free-Market Catholic Social Teaching Run Its Course?
Anthony Annett of the Earth Institute at Columbia University seems to think so. In a recent blog post at dotCommonweal titled “The Fall of the House of Neuhaus,” Annett offers a brief history of the way Neuhaus and his friends...