Month: March 2007

Nine Days in April: A Free Conference Guided By Catholic Social Teaching

Seeking and Working for Social Justice and Peace as Guided by the Nine Themes of Catholic Social Teaching: An Easter Novena and Conference at Anna Maria College, 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton, Massachusetts.

April 10th through 21st, 2007

The Theology and Religious Studies Community at Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA invites you to a multi-day conference on the nine themes of Catholic Social Teaching. Each day of the conference is devoted to one of the nine themes. This spring conference purposely coincides with Anna Maria’s student musical, “Cotton Patch Gospel” by Harry Chapin which will be presented on the evenings of Thursday, April 12 and Friday, April 13 at 7 PM.

The Novena/Conference aims to increase understanding of and enthusiasm for the faithful pursuit of social justice and peace called for by Scriptural inspiration and admonition, Christian tradition, and the century-plus old promulgation of social encyclicals issued by recent Popes. The Conference will also attend to the documents of the Ecumenical Councils and select pastoral letters issued by Bishops’ conferences.

Fr Bernie Gilgun’s homily, March 2, 2007

This is a recording of a homily by Father Bernie Gilgun, from his weekly Mass at the Mustard Seed in Worcester, Massachusetts. You can download the mp3 (4.5MB) or see other formats. You can also subscribe (RSS) to the podcast.

Reading for March 2, 2007.

Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar,
and there recall that your brother
has anything against you,
leave your gift there at the altar,
go first and be reconciled with your brother,
and then come and offer your gift.

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Bob Waldrop, on the US Catholic Bishops:

These documents are the latest in a series of morally problematic statements on Iraq from the U.S. Bishops’ Conference. The bishops ignore their own personal responsibility for our nation’s disastrous war policy. They inflate their reputation as peacemakers and they call for even more war and violence in their crusade for a “responsible transition” in Iraq. See how clever they are with words? War is no longer peace, now it is “responsible transition”.

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