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Hours before the Crucifixion
It’s Good Friday morning so our thoughts move toward our Lord’s anguish as he mentally prepares for Golgotha. We know what He will face externally: the scourging, the insults, the rejection by His...
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Major Announcement from Truth and Charity
We here at Truth & Charity (I am presuming to speak for all of us!) are incredibly thankful to all of our wonderful readers. We’ve seen big spikes in our page views recently, and believe that now...
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Hope for the future
I realize I’m an old fuddy-duddy stuck in a still-young-but-too-old-for-the-young-adults-group body, and that I probably have a reflex toward being pessimistic when perusing the news (which happens...
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“The salvific meaning of suffering”
Our family experienced a significant loss on Divine Mercy Sunday, so we ask that you pray for us. The situation made me reflect on the Church’s teaching on suffering, highlighted recently by Blessed...
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“We don’t spend as much as we should…”
The intarwebs are all atwitter about comments made by Professor Melissa Harris-Perry of Tulane University for MSNBC, in which she helpfully explains that your kids ain’t yours (at least, not completely...
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The reality of “just” wages after the Great Recession
I’ve dealt with this issue more at CatholicVote (e.g., here and here), but wanted to mention something about the morality of just wages and labor in general in Catholic Social Teaching here at T&C,...
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Happy Creation Day!
I’ll admit to being a little apathetic about Earth Day (if you are apathetic, shouldn’t that mean that you are not pathetic?). In a post-Christian world, the vacuum left by refusing to worship God is...
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There is no great stagnation
(Warning: Friday fun day non-serious post) We’re constantly told that the end is nigh, that society will soon be collapsing, or at least that the near future is going to be worse than the recent past....
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The Theology of Bigness
Wailua falls, pic by StJenna I had the opportunity in the past month to visit a few places that emphasized to me the importance of scale. A business trip took me to Maui, and a few weeks later while...
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Better living through charts
Well, maybe just one chart; I don’t want you to pull a muscle on a Friday morning. I saw a link through the Acton PowerBlog that referenced a post by James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise...
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Making Mass more Dense
Gabey Guy can’t be bothered with all the “sit/stand/kneel” stuff. These cankles are made for walking! You can probably toss this in the bulging “How do I get more out of Mass?” file, but, hey, I’ve...
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Mr. Biden, tear down this wall!
My co-blogger at CatholicVote, Stephen Kokx, links to an AP story about Veep Biden who apparently has little concern for blurring the line between church and state. From the AP story: Vice President...
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Entrepreneurs pray more than non-entrepreneurs
Pic by stevendepolo So says a study presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture: In a separate study of U.S. entrepreneurs, researchers at Baylor...
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“Some Economists are Idiots;” no argument from this one
Andrew pointed me to this article lamenting the use of anonymous-but-still-to-be-trusted “some economists” in a New York Times article on taxation of oil companies: Large oil companies typically pay...
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Disobeying Jesus
I was struck recently by accounts in the Gospels where people explicitly disobey Jesus five seconds after He tells them something: Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according...
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Die Toleranz
If there was a noticeable decrease in your reading of boring material the last few weeks, it’s probably because I was chaperoning a study abroad trip with my students at a small university town in...
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A Catholic interpretation of “young atheist” motivations
You may have seen last week’s article in The Atlantic entitled “Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity.” In it, college-aged atheists are interviewed about their reasons for...
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Pope Francis on our Father, and the Our Father
Vatican Radio has a summary and quotes from Pope Francis’ homily at Mass Thursday, which focused on praying the Our Father: To whom do I pray? To the Almighty God? He is too far off. Ah, I can’t hear...
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God and Caesar have different rules
God told us to “repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” Caesar, on the other hand, is increasingly unsatisfied with having what belongs only to him; he wants it all. I...
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Contraceptivism
CNA has a story about overpopulation, and one economist who is skeptical of its dangers, on what I guess was yesterday’s “World Population Day.” The economist, Nicholas Eberstadt, had this line: “To...
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