Catholics to deliver ashes to White House on Ash Wednesday

H/T to the Christian Radical blog, a Catholic Worker information service run by the CW community of Vancouver.

Washington, DC - On Ash Wednesday, February 6th Catholics for an End to the War in Iraq (CEWI), the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, TASSC and Jonah House will …

Bonhoeffer's birthday

Halden contributes a nice, succinct post in honor of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the 102nd anniversary of his birth, urging contemporary Christians to remain within the discomfort of the contradictions of his life and writings:

Bonhoeffer's life, like his theology makes it …

More info on upcoming Cavanaugh book

William T. Cavanaugh's new book, Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire, has an estimated ship date of March 29, 2008. Here is the description from the Eerdman's website:

Should Christians be for or against the free market? For or against globalization? How …

Bishop battles blowhard basketball coach at Jesuit university

A Catholic blogs have been discussing this story about the head basketball coach at St Louis University, a Jesuit school, who publicly stated that he is a pro-choice Catholic who supports Hilary Clinton's campaign.

I find this whole incident truly baffling.

First, I …

Ekklesia Project summer gathering - July 7-9

A few details for the Ekklesia Project summer gathering have been announced. I've missed the last two and I am going to make every effort to be at this one:

Crossing the Divide: Race, Racism and the Body of Christ

EP Summer Gathering , July 7-9, DePaul University, …

Recent essay on Boff's ecclesiology

I was asked if I could post a copy of a recent paper I wrote on Leonardo Boff and communion ecclesiology, and I have indeed done so. Here it is (PDF) if you are interested.

Weird

I'm not saying this with the intention of coming off like "look at me I'm so disengaged from the 2008 presidential election" or anything (I am following it somewhat), but it occurred to me tonight that I really can't say I have any idea what these dudes Huckabee and …

No Salvation Outside the Poor

I just got my hands on Jon Sobrino's new collection of essays No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays. I have only read the first chapter, but so far the book is fantastic and appears to be a great place to start reading Sobrino.

Here is the …

CatholicAnarchy.org backing NO ONE in the U.S. presidential election.

Yep. Nothing more to say about it.

Imagine it in Toronto

Something tells me there are at least a few places in Toronto that would remove some stars from her eyes (although I haven't seen them yet), and the part about shoveled sidewalks is a flat out lie (!), but there is a lot of truth in this Common Dreams piece on my …

featured xmas musics

remember! you have 2 christy-mas recorkds that you can download from the past right in through your escato-futuro-logical-ality-ment.

remember that 2 years ago this time ago i hav'd released this record called:

HAPPY XMAS, X IS HERE

and it was in lowercases tho, and …

New Cavanaugh interview and book

The Other Journal just posted a great, lengthy interview with William Cavanaugh. The interview in itself is great, but the best part is the very end where he mentions his new book called Being Consumed which is being published by Eerdmans in 2008.

All I want for Christmas

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please...

SHUT UP ABOUT THE GOLDEN COMPASS.

You are all a bunch of crybabies. Shut up. You had your day with The Passion of the Christ and prayed that the film would "touch millions of people." Let the atheists have …

Eugene McCarraher on capitalism, abortion, and the "culture of death"

The Other Journal, an online journal of theology and culture, recently posted an interview with one of my favorite Catholic thinkers, Eugene McCarraher. McCarraher is associate professor of humanities and history at Villanova University and a frequent contributor to …

Military archdiocese gets new warrior shepherd

When the news broke that Archbishop Edwin O'Brien was being moved from his position as head of the Archdiocese of United States Military Services to serve the Archdiocese of Baltimore, I was secretly hoping that the Church would use the opportunity to quietly get itself …

North American Churchwomen, December 2

Tim's El Salvador Blog remembers the four North American churchwomen -- Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and Cleveland Lay Mission Team Member Jean Donovan -- who were martyred on December 2, 1980.

Dorothy Day on the sacrifices of soldiering

War is deviltry. It calls for sacrifices indeed, but not at the altar of love. "Greater love hath no man than this." A great blasphemy this, to use Christ's words in connection with men going to war. They go because they are drafted, because they are afraid of what …

War discussions

Two interesting discussions going on at Vox Nova, the Catholic group blog to which I contribute. The first is in response to a Dorothy Day quote that I posted (also posted here a couple days ago). The second is a discussion about patriotism in the Mass, a topic that I …

Not only deadlier but smarter too

I have not been blogging much lately, and I apologize for that to those who like to read this blog. The end of summer was quite busy as I was trying to get a couple papers finished before the beginning of the new semester. The semester so far has been pretty busy but …

Appalachian pastorals re-released

From a recent piece by Fr. John Rausch published in the Glenmary Challenge:

In the fall when leaves from oak and maple scream vivid colors of yellow and red and the understory of the forest blends its scarlets and browns, the Catholic Committee of Appalachia (CCA) …