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1 month ago | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Alejandra Oliva |Terence Sweeney |Brett Hoover |Nuria López Torres |Núria Torres
Article Visibly Invisible The Trump administration hopes not only to deport migrants, but also to make them feel so unsafe they no longer participate actively in our communities. The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’ A special episode about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations. Article Will the Bishops Stand Up to Trump?
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
ewtn.co.uk | Terence Sweeney
COMMENTARY: For the great thinkers of the Catholic tradition, ‘to be human is to exist with the sense of an absence to be filled.’, January 7, 2025 – National Catholic RegisterWhen I was young, I struggled with math mostly because I couldn’t see the deeper purpose of it. It just seemed like hard work toward no end. It took years to understand all the ways my mind was formed by the study of mathematics.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
ncregister.com | Terence Sweeney
COMMENTARY: For the great thinkers of the Catholic tradition, ‘to be human is to exist with the sense of an absence to be filled.’ If chastity is merely about what we cannot do — whether as celibates or those called to the married state — then it is not a real virtue. Virtue is a fulfillment of our capacities, a perfection of who and what we are.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
churchlifejournal.nd.edu | Terence Sweeney |John Cavadini
Augustine’s Confessions lends itself to a rich variety of readings and understandings. There is a lot that can be said about it, a sensus plenum of meanings. I want to propose one way to read the text that sheds light on what Augustine is learning over the course of his conversions and what he is teaching us. In the narrative arc of the book, Augustine depicts his failures to love someone besides himself and how he learned to love someone besides himself.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
ncregister.com | Terence Sweeney
COMMENTARY: A hollow adherence to rules weakens faith, but when Church teachings are properly understood, they free us to live in a ‘law of love.’ Detail of mosaic showing the Sacred Heart, the Blessed Mother and St. Francis de Sales in the Chapel of St. Claude de la Colombière in Paray-le-Monial, France (photo: Elena Dijour/Shutterstock) Commentaries November 5, 2024 I used to be baffled when people would say they abandoned Catholicism because they think the Church is too legalistic. How...
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
ewtn.co.uk | Terence Sweeney
COMMENTARY: A hollow adherence to rules weakens faith, but when Church teachings are properly understood, they free us to live in a ‘law of love.’, November 5, 2024 – National Catholic RegisterI used to be baffled when people would say they abandoned Catholicism because they think the Church is too legalistic. How could they think this when so many doctrines and morals seem to be treated as optional items in the ecclesial cafeteria?
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
americamagazine.org | Terence Sweeney
Pro-life activists pray with rosaries as clients arrive at the Bread and Roses Woman's Health Center, a clinic that provides abortions in Clearwater, Fla., Feb. 11, 2023. Pro-life advocates across Florida are leading a campaign urging a "no" vote on Amendment 4, which will be on the Nov. 5, 2024, and would enshrine a right to abortion essentially throughout pregnancy in the state constitution.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
americamagazine.org | Terence Sweeney
It’s a holy day of obligation again. I set my alarm clock early and wolf down breakfast. Of course, I can’t receive Communion, because I had to eat breakfast in the 15 minutes before Mass. Normally, I would help the toddlers transition from sleep to breakfast table, but I will head straight to work after Mass, so no chance for time with my children in the morning. I will not really see them in the evening either, as my wife will have to take the kids to Mass then.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
plough.com | Terence Sweeney
Fran died this week. She garnered no headlines in national publications nor in her hometown’s newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer. But I still think her death matters, or more to the point, her life matters. Any community requires people who are pillars, who uphold us by doing the work of that makes a bunch of individuals an us. Fran was such a pillar both at in our parish and in our neighborhood. Pillars are people whom we rely on, often without knowing.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Terence Sweeney
In 2022, when I signed up for a COVID-19 booster at CVS, I encountered a strange question on the online form: I was asked what sex I was assigned at birth. There was a question mark icon I could select to learn more. Clicking on it, I found the following verbiage:How do we use sex assigned at birth information? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requires us to collect this demographic information for COVID-19 vaccinations.
