Bulletin: This Week at Lourdes

FROM THE KEYBOARD OF FR. NICK Last week I wrote about solidarity...the universal brotherhood of humanity. Solidarity, social charity must go beyond justice to embrace forgiveness and reconciliation. The concept of solidarity...

FROM THE KEYBOARD OF FR. NICK I have been writing about the social teaching of the Catholic Church here. What we owe others is called “justice”. What we owe others as part of being in a society is societal justice. (Or social...

FROM THE KEYBOARD OF FR. NICK I have been on vacation the past week. Hopefully, everything and everyone survived. Vacation is a good topic to fit in with my theme for this summer of Catholic Social Teaching. The social teaching...

FROM THE KEYBOARD OF FR. NICK Last week, in exploring the social teaching of the church I explained how Scripture and Tradition and private property rights are “an extensions of human freedom… [a condition of] civil...

FROM THE KEYBOARD OF FR. NICK Inspired by Pope Leo’s choice of name, recalling the start of the Church’s social teaching by Pope Leo XIII, I am exploring the social teaching in this space this summer. Pope Leo XII’s...