Christian Teachings

Pope Leo XIV’s critique of the Iran war exposes its moral bankruptcy, the risks to our alliances and the hollow core of the new right’s Christian nationalism.

First Sunday of Advent (Novus Ordo, Year A) …before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage…
I Sunday of Advent (Tridentine Latin Mass) To You I lift up my soul: in You, O my God, I trust; let me not be put to shame;

If Christianity is ever to have any credibility in the future, we are going to need many more gentle, persuasive and strong leaders to show a different way of being Christian than the shrill, cruel and politicized theocrats who dominate the news every day.

It’s a Sunday evening at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and the pews are full. Redeemer is a conservative Evangelical Christian congregation, but the parishioners don’t fit the easy Bible Belt stereotypes.

The newly elected President Dwight Eisenhower gave his first public address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 16, 1953. You may listen here.