Jose Rueda is a graduate from the Angelicum in Rome and Texas Tech University, and a seminarian in Denver who spent a month this winter as a Catholic Worker in Houston. He grew up in Spain and Mexico, lived in Ireland, and speaks English with a charming Irish accent. My first contact with the life… continue reading
Catholic Writers Recruited to Support Bush War on Iraq: Michael Novak Hired to Undermine Pope John Paul II’s Position
February 1, 2003 by
President Bush’s Ambassador to the Holy See has asked Michael Novak to develop even further his theological theory of justification for preventive war to support Bush. Novak will present his ideas in February at a conference on the just war organized by the Ambadssador. In the past several months Novak, along with fellow neo-conservative writers… continue reading
Who Gets Organ Transplants? Undocumented Give More than They Receive
February 1, 2003 by
Dr. McColloster is a volunteer physician at Casa Juan Diego. G. was dropped off at Casa Juan Diego in July. She had been living under an overpass with her boyfriend but was unable to tolerate the Houston heat. Her eyes were brightly jaundiced and her abdomen was swollen like a woman one week overdue. She… continue reading
Ananias and Sapphira, an Original Sin in the Church: the Eschatological Dimension of Money
December 1, 2002 by
Not long ago a couple rushed into Casa Juan Diego, very agitated, asking to speak to us privately. They had just been reading the story of Ananias and Sapphira in the Acts of the Apostles, in which those who did not share their goods were struck dead. The couple, friends of the Houston Catholic Worker,… continue reading
The Incarnation at Casa Juan Diego: The Mystery of the Birth of Jesus
December 1, 2002 by
Catherine, a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, was formerly a Catholic Worker at Andre House in Phoenix. The Incarnation, God fully immersing Himself in the midst of our messy, messy lives, is a constant source of wonder for me. How marvelous that our God knows… continue reading
American Catholics and the Death Penalty
October 1, 2002 by
The following is based on Jim Megivern’s presentation on April 20, 2002, at a program on Catholicism and the Death Penalty at the University of Dallas, part of a seminar on Religion and Public Life. The editors also participated in that seminar. Liberal use of death as the penalty for a wide variety of crimes… continue reading
Michael Novak, Enron Man: Wealth Creation for the Few
October 1, 2002 by
We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw an article just written by Peggy Noonan in TheCatholic World Report. At first it seemed right on-decrying the greed and terrible practices of CEO’s of the last decade which are giving capitalism such a bad name. It turned out, however, to be simply a defense of the… continue reading
Why Saint Juan Diego, a Saint For Nobodies, Means so Much To the Houston Catholic Worker
September 1, 2002 by
Casa Juan Diego has been filled with joy over the canonization of Saint Juan Diego. The welcome of Mexico for the Holy Father on the occasion of his canonization reverberated in Houston, even in the news media, where several television stations celebrated the Pope’s visit and tied it together with what they called one of… continue reading
Easy Essay: The Wisdom of Dostoevsky: The Monastic Way is very Different (Light from the East)
August 1, 2002 by
Distorted Truth Look at the worldly and all who set themselves up above the temple of God. Has not God’s image and His truth been distorted in them? Nothing in Science They have science; but in science there is nothing but what is the object of sense. The spiritual world, the highest part of man’s being is rejected altogether, dismissed with a… continue reading
