NYTimes.com: Teenagers, Medication and Suicide
Very important article in the New York Times by the psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman. It concerns the issue of teenagers struggling with mental health issues and suicide. Find the article ...
Tom Doyle addresses priest sex abuse survivors
Dominican priest Father Tom Doyle, who has worked with survivors of priest sexual abuse for some 30 years, made a powerful address recently concerning his work and the tragedies he’s ...
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” Jn: 6:35 No one can ever accuse the Bible ...
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” Jn 6:13 I was reading recently about an artist who told a story about herself as a young ...
Why Was Jesus Crucified
(The following is based on the latest scripture scholarship, particularly as it relates to first century Palestine. My primary source is Jesus: An Historical Approximation, by Jose A. Pagola, a ...
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“ … his heart was moved with pity for them” Mk. 6:34 The word translated as “pity” or “compassion” in the scriptural quote above is actually a very weak rendering ...