We start off this penitential season, appropriately enough, with a meditation by Fr Stephen Hearn about Jesus’s injunction in Matthew 5 to be perfect.
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Why should Christians care about tax?
We often hear that we should pay our taxes because Jesus told us to. Give to God that which is God, and to Caesar that which is Caesar’s. Say your prayers and pay your taxes. Such a theology of taxation and loyalty to government has been used by some states to encourage Christians to quiet compliance.
Why should Christians care about nonviolent direct (climate) action?
For too long, being green and caring about the environment has been seen as a special interest group in the church—for the cyclists, allotment holders, and mother earth types. Lip service has been paid to the fact that God is creator, “all things come from thee, and of thy own have we given thee”, and that we and all that we see, touch, hear, smell and taste is created or God-breathed. And yet we are part of creation—trees clap their hands (Isaiah 55:12); God is intrinsically involved in the natural world; and promises never again to “curse the ground” and destroy “every living creature” after the flood.
Catholic Social Teaching: Five Books
Catholic Social Teaching has been described as the Roman Catholic Church’s best kept secret. It is a rich body of thought, the fruit of the Roman Catholic Church carefully applying the demands of the Gospel in the midst of ever-changing social and political contexts. It finds its origins in Europe at the end of the 19th Century and continues to be worked out today, with recent interventions by Pope Francis developing this body of teaching and reflection on how the Gospel is to be preached in an increasingly globalised world. […]
Book review: Reimagining Britain (Justin Welby)
Simon Cuff reviews Justin Welby’s Reimagining Britain (Bloomsbury, 2018).