Here's an interesting piece of coverage from CNN.com. If we're not careful, we'll make the news...
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Criticism of Churches Feeding the Homeless
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Rome & Canterbury in Recent Economic News
Coincidentally, both His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Rowan Williams made speeches last Monday (November 16, 2009) regarding economics and public policy. The former addressed the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization during the World Summit on Food Security and the latter spoke to the Trades Union Congress at their economics conference in London. After reading the text of the Pope's speech here and the Archbishop of Canterbury's keynote address here, I wonder what we, the de pauperum collective, think of the two speeches, their similarities and divergences, and the theology/theologies of economics they reflect. Any and all insights, comments, and rightfully chastened critiques are welcome. At the very least, in these dark and troubling days of savage global capitalism the path(s) that these two leading lights of today's Church catholic are trying to illumine would seem to require our sober and prayerful attention. Happy reading!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Learning From Our Sisters
PBS recently ran a story on monasticism, taking the communal life and practices of the (Benedictine) sisters of Mount St. Scholastica as the centerpiece. Given our collective interests and concerns here at de pauperum, I thought it might be helpful to pass the article on, sisters such as these clearly serving both as examples and as reminders of the kind of cruciform holiness for which we stutteringly strive in our extra-monastic context. Thank God for the witness of religious. For the link to the original story, click here.
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