“Glimpses of the Kingdom by inspiring writers from around the web.”
Curated by
Fr. Christian Mathis
The Expanded Kingdom is my way of sharing the gifts of writers who are seeking first the Kingdom of God. If this is your first visit, I invite you to visit the blog that inspired this ezine by simply clicking on the title of this post. Thanks for stopping by! 
Catholic organizations’ suit against birth-control mandate is a First Amendment issue. 
Sometimes a patent falsehood is repeated so often that it needs to be openly rebutted, in spite of its inanity. 
In The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon says that the main goal of the contraception mandate is not to protect women's health—it's to conscript religious organizations into a political agenda. 
With the dust settling on the uproar which followed the Vatican’s April intervention into the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), it’s possible to put this and other emerging trends into a longer-term perspective. 
Forty-three Catholic institutions filed 12 separate lawsuits against HHS Monday. 
… and come away with a chest of Blood. Artist Sebastian Errazuriz suggests that his supply of vino was … inadvertently blessed by the priest while turning wine into the blood of Christ ... 
Can we overcome the very American temptation to make God in our own image? |
Sampling the responses to a column by Maureen Dowd. 
I must admit that I could not resist this photo. And when I saw it, I promptly thought of the blogger Pithless Thoughts. May he see this picture, and use it and derive great merriment from it. 
In one of its hymns, our Church calls the unbelief of Thomas “good”. Understandably one would wonder – is there good and bad unbelief? There seems to be, because humans are not pu... 
At the request of Cardinal Agustin Bea, president of the Secretariat for Christian Unity, who also has as his area of responsibility relations with Judaism, the American Jewish Committee has already submitted two memoranda regarding the treatment... 
George Weigel writes on NRO: The battle for religious freedom between the Catholic Church in the United States and the Obama administration just entered the second quarter.The first quarter was bureaucratic and rhetorical. 
Why We’re Fighting (And Filing): Setting the Record Straight | CatholicVote.org -...
Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other groups sued the Obama administration Monday in eight states and the District of Columbia over a federal mandate that most employers provide workers free birth control as part of their health insurance. 
A reader writes: I understand your abundance of caution in discerning whether the… ... 
Esther Confronts Xerxesby Lindsey McCormack Remember our friend Jim LePage, whose Word series captured some of the most beautiful, compelling, bizarre, troubling, violent, and redemptive stories from the Bible in stunning poster-style images? 
A conference has broken the silence on Jean Daniélou, one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century. The mystery of his death. The hostility of his Jesuit confreres. 
‘We must be loyal Americans by being bold and courageous Catholics,’ he states, as the U.S.… ... |
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