About 25 years ago, during the weekly Friday evening Mass in the living room of the Bishop Dingman House of the Des Moines Catholic Worker, a man entered from the street and joined us. Visitors were not uncommon and were always welcome among our hodgepodge of worshippers that included poor folks, children, grandparents, widows, people […] The post In ‘Dilexi Te,’ Pope Leo connects liturgy with the work of justice appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Across the plateaus, south of the county seat, a monster power shovel the height of a 20-story building loomed on the horizon. Its name was the Silver Spade, and it was one of several giant shovels used for strip mining in my region in the latter half of the 20th century. As a kid I […] The post Do we love machines more than one another? appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
“Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s,” Jesus famously said in Mark’s gospel. But how this relates to the relationship between religion and politics is a topic Christians have debated for centuries. In 426, in City of God, Augustine argued that Christians should focus on eternal […] The post The danger of blurring the line between church and state appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic