Daily Archives: 14 March 2006

Gaudium et Spes 26

Gaudium et Spes 26, and I’ll warn you if you’re not ready, the Church includes a “bill of rights and duties.” Every day human interdependence grows more tightly drawn and spreads by degrees over the whole world. As a result … Continue reading

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One Approach to Abortion

After some nice quiet library time last night and two meals with my family in the past twenty hours, let me see if I can come up with something coherent on the approach to abortion. Tony makes some suggestions on … Continue reading

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A Body of Broken Bones

This is how Thomas Merton describes the “unceasing divisions” among people in Seeds of Contemplation. If you have the book, chapter five is worth contemplating. I found it a startling take on the notion of dialogue we’ve seen recently in … Continue reading

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