Category Archives: Catholic

The Church Is Not a Corporation

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

The Archbishop of Denver has a good article in First Things concerning lawsuits against the Church in the context of what the Church is and is not. Excerpt: Every bishop in the United States has a filial love for the … Continue reading →

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Man and Woman He Created Them: The Church and Same Sex Unions

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

It is only recently that the Church’s teaching on homosexuality has been difficult for many people, especially teens and young adults to accept. The fact that proponents of same sex marriage are framing the argument in terms of civil rights … Continue reading →

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In the World Not Of the World.

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

I was recently asked, in a workshop that I was giving, “why doesn’t the Church come into the modern world?  This question followed a discussion of the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and the exclusion of women from the Priesthood. The … Continue reading →

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Cast Down Your Bucket: A Theology of Staying

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

Booker T Washington was a former slave who rose to prominence after the Civil War. In 1895 he gave a speech known as the “Atlanta Compromise Speech”. It is considered one of the most important speeches in American history. The … Continue reading →

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Orthodoxy Attracts Vocations

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

Mark Shea points out that …people are more likely to embrace a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience in a community that actually believes in these things than in communities that treat such things as outdated nonsense.

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Written on Every Human Heart

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

Knowledge of God is written on every human heart. The Church teaches that we can know something about God through human reason alone. St. Paul, pointed out that even though the Gentiles were not taught the law that  “what the … Continue reading →

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Abortion insanity

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

Unbelievable.  Matthew Archbold, over at his National Catholic Register blog reports: Planned Parenthood clinics across Iowa are fine tuning an advanced and novel way to abort babies – by remote control. According to reports, about 1,500 women have already used … Continue reading →

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Brave New Word: Children as Products

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

In a world that no longer values all human life, children become commodities and not gifts: Sex to make babies may become redundant as IVF becomes the norm (via Mirror of Justice). Update: link corrected The foundational principle of Catholic … Continue reading →

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Reflection by Deacon Larry Kehoe

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

My husband loves the Gospel of John especially John 17.  It bothers him that it is bumped from the Lectionary, in all but six diocese in the United States, because the Ascension is celebrated on Sunday instead of Thursday.  He … Continue reading →

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Tis The Season….

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Susan Kehoe

For graduations and the celebration of Confirmation.There is an old ministry joke about the Methodist, Lutheran and Catholic clergy who had a common problem with bats in their Churches.  The Methodist and Lutheran minister tried everything, but they could not … Continue reading →

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