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Recalling the life of a Catholic exemplar
Remembering Senator Ted Kennedy one year after his passing, it is clear how much he is missed in an increasingly combative environment in Washington--and how much his Catholic ideals came to represent the progressive vision for a better America. The passage of healthcare reform represented a validation of his lifelong efforts to respond to the health-related trials he and his family endured. more » |
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Scrutinizing Glenn Beck's credentials as a theologian
The religious revival-style rally on the Washington Mall was framed as an effort to restore Christian values in American public life. But Glenn Beck's effort to impugn President Obama's Christianity has a few pitfalls of its own. more » |
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Katrina and the call to compassion in an emergency
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm five years ago, it unleashed a series of events that took nearly 2,000 lives, destroyed an American city and devastated an entire region. An assessment of where things stand today shows that the city is far better prepared to evacuate its citizens, but New Orleans' levee system is not yet fully prepared to protect the city from a big storm, and the natural defenses of coastal Louisiana are weaker than ever before. more » |
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Please Read: US Catholic
Bishops' "Faithful Citizenship"
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"He gave us strength in time of trouble, wisdom in time of uncertainty, and sharing in time of happiness. He will always be by our side...[May he] be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."Sen Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
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Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.
"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
"On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics."
Inaugural Address, President Obama
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