Lord have mercy (Matthew 20:30)

Lord have mercy on Children in trauma, Lord have mercy on Parents in sorrowful loss, Lord have mercy on Officials who separate Children and parents, Lord have mercy on Those who justify evil deeds, Lord have mercy on us all. (Photo: Albrecht Dürer, “Praying Hands”...

Prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas

“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen...

Charlottesville, Virginia

As a Jew (married to a Virginian gentile), Born in Germany, 11 months before Hitler seized power, How do I respond to the familiar sounds of Fear, hatred, contempt, anger, violence, and death, Echoing in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia? Yesterday, was the...

What Is the Wittenberg 2017 Initiative?

  A Catholic lay leader with a Ph.D. in history gave a lecture on the medieval papacy. With a historian’s precision, she characterized the sins against which Martin Luther protested – lust for power, sexual immorality, greed. After finishing, she returned to her...