I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
We can’t go from zero to sixty in a day or even a week when it comes to shifting our food-habit gears. We have to take baby steps, starting with an increasing awareness of our habits and a willingness to chip away at the ones that aren’t doing us...
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever "Christian" today happen to believe and p...
The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small grou...
To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we are to think about ...
In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee that the accused received a fair trial and the right of defence. This was the foundation of the Inquisition, and it was a ...
A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, "Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the fountain of truth. Some comm...
Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture” of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus o...
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself.
You give frequent flyer miles with that guilt trip?
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear,Sin and Doubt
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
