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Jul 2020
There is something inherently noble about honest work well done, but the process of industrialization and ‘technologization’ has emptied much work of its meaning. Assembly lines are famous for their dehumanizing character. In the United States the service industry has replaced manufacturing. Now we have the new assembly lines of Amazon Fulfillment Centers; we have customer service call centers and Costco greeters that require infinite patience and a paste-on smile as people must represent a vast impersonal organization that has little connection with any local community. Very often a person might be......
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June 26, 2020
The nobility of work
Last Sunday, I introduced the subject of work and economic organization. Work, rather than consumption should be central to economic organization; work is not just a matter of income and making a living; work, especially...
June 19, 2020
An Introduction to the Dignity of Work
There are three great marvels in the natural order of human life: children who have been well brought up; a woman who is happily married; a man who finds satisfaction in his work, without neglecting...
June 12, 2020
Social Justice: Divorce strikes at the intimacy of love
I have been writing about the harm done by divorce in terms of the two ends of marriage: procreation and education of children and the intimacy of love. Last week, I wrote about the...
June 05, 2020
Divorce harms children
Last Sunday I insisted on the need to set aside political correctness and the fear of offending so as to be clear about the evil of divorce. Unless we learn to speak clearly and objectively...
May 29, 2020
Social justice and divorce – Clarity and truth are needed, not political correctness.
Last Sunday, I introduced the subject of divorce as a sin against social justice. Divorce goes directly against the explicit teaching of Jesus Christ, rooted in the original creation of man, male and female....
May 15, 2020
Providence, pandemic, and an examination of conscience
Last Sunday, citing Romans 8:28-29, I wrote: “The whole reason why God created this world of time, from the most distant galaxy to the tiniest microbe, has been to lead men to share in the...
May 08, 2020
Temporal Punishment and The Goal of Divine Providence
A couple weeks ago I raised the question as to whether or not the pandemic was a “divine punishment”. Immediately I turned to St. Augustine’s “City of God” for insight into the way in which...
May 01, 2020
Divine providence in punishment of general catastropes
Last Sunday I wrote about how St Augustine teaches that temporal goods and evils are enjoyed or suffered by both the good and the wicked, lest anyone think that these goods are the ultimate reward...
December 07, 2018
Tradition and Advent
Last Sunday in my homily I spoke about tradition, both Sacred Tradition and all the many traditions in which it is clothed. I also reintroduced, for the season of Advent, the ancient tradition of celebrating...