By Edward W Schmidt S J in 'America, The Jesuit Review' Theology has many sources: Sacred Scripture, of course, and church decrees; documents from popes and councils, and the writings of saints; reflections on experience and insights into things beyond. The epic poet Homer was called a theologian because he sang of gods and their…
Author: Fr. Michael Campion
Homily, 14th Sunday of the Year C 2019
The former owner of the Leeds United Football Club, Massimo Cellini, gave an interview published in THE TIMES yesterday about a football manger, Gary Monk, and his agent that the newspaper has been investigating. In the interview Cellini revealed the reason he refused to sign a player the manager wanted. Wages too high? Too old?…
Women and the Diaconate
By Sharon Tighe-Mooney in an article for The Association of Catholic Priests (Ireland) website The Vatican commission studying the issue of women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church has been unable to find consensus on the questions they were given to investigate. On his return from Bulgaria and North Macedonia on 7 May last,…
How much corruption can we tolerate in the church before we leave?
By Donald Cozzens in The National Catholic Reporter (USA), 18 June 2019 After reading James Carroll's lengthy lament in The Atlantic on the corruption in the Catholic Church and its priestly caste, I remembered reading an article in America magazine by the late Jesuit theologian Walter Burghardt. "In the course of half a century," the weathered scholar…
Homily, SS Peter and Paul 2019
The opening of today’s Second Reading from St Paul (2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18) reminds me of an incident that occurred recently involving one of the two people contesting the leadership of the Conservative Party and who is the favourite to be the next British Prime Minister. It was widely reported that police were called to…
Facts aren’t sacred in this age of uncertainty
From Ed Conway in THE TIMES, 28 June 2019 When the facts change I change my mind.” So, famously, said John Maynard Keynes. Except he didn’t. As any fact checker worth their salt will tell you, there is no record of the great economist using that phrase. Yet it lives on, alongside a host of…
Mitigate global warming, spare further injustice to poor, pope says
From THE TABLET, 14 June 2019 Faced with a climate emergency, the world must act immediately to mitigate global warming and avoid committing "a brutal act of injustice" on the poor and future generations, Pope Francis told a group of energy and oil executives and global investors. "Time is running out! Deliberations must go beyond…
Homily, Trinity Sunday (C) 2019
With the season of Easter now over, this Sunday and next Sunday are two special days in the Church that celebrate central mysteries of our faith. Next Sunday - Corpus Christi - we will celebrate Christ offering his divine life to us in the Eucharist. Today – Trinity Sunday – we celebrate what we believe…
If you love someone, let them go
From Melanie Reid in THE TIMES, 8 June 2019 When I die,” I say to my husband, “will you please give it a couple of weeks before you find someone else?” It started as a private joke, one of those quips that carries a heft of truth, and now sometimes I say it publicly. It’s…
Homily, Pentecost Sunday 2019
Many of you, I suspect, will have an item or two in a kitchen cupboard at home that you have never used or very seldom do. You may have received it as a gift; or you may have bought it yourself, thinking at the time you’d have a good use for it. But it’s lain…
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