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He Lifts Up the Lowly (Pent. 16, Year B)

Sometimes an ethical injunction that may seem obvious has been passed down precisely because it was once far from obvious.

IVF And the Poorest of the Poor

Much public outrage followed the decision in February by Alabama’s Supreme Court to recognize cryogenically frozen embryos as people. Hundreds of thousands of these...

Getting Saved

Is our gospel really the good news of Jesus?

Lent and the Glory of the Lord

The idea that a mortal being could give itself as the immortal Word is a contradiction that would seem necessarily to burst open and destroy human existence.

Alms from the church

On Dec. 31, St. Dunstan's Church in Houston will give the proceeds of a special capital campaign to celebrate the Jubilee year of its founding.

Lent, Kiva, Chrysostom, and me: Microcredit and the Great Fast

If you are not concretely doing things to help the poor, you are avoiding an unavoidable part of the Christian life.

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