Christian in the spirit of Francis and Clare of Assisi Servant priest in the Catholic community Sociologist at Quincy University

Table of Contents

I am re-arranging these materials to organize them into some kind of topical order. The materials include entries I have posted on my blog.

A blog allows people to comment. However, I get very few comments. In the meantime, the number of my entries on the blog has gotten larger and it seemed useful to organize them. The blog format I am using does not allow me to organize them. On this website I can present the blog entries in a more organized form.

1. Autobiographical items
My story (revised)
Being 74 years old (Jan 2010)
Aging Sixties Radical (Aug 2010)

2. Theory, mostly sociological

a. Definitions leading toward theory
Values (Jan 2010)
Games (Jan 2010)
Atoms (Mar 2010)
Stories (July 2010)

b. Reflections on capitalism
Strictness as Competitiveness (1998)
Love and power (1999)
Soul Catholicism (2000)
Soul-friendly capitalism (Feb. 2004)
Capitalism’s cancer (Jan 2010)
Bigness (June 2010)

3. Church issues (Catholic)
Benedict XVI and Galileo (May 2005)
The Church and Today’s Cultures (Nov 2006)
A not often considered reason for the shortage of priestly vocations (Dec 2007)
Reform of the reform (Jan 2010)
Virtuosos (Apr 2010)
Pope Benedict meets Barack Obama (Jan 2011)

a. The sociologist dabbles at theology
The God of the Philosophers (July 2008)
On hell (Aug 2008)
Original sin (Jan 2010)
The devil (Feb 2010)
Freedom (Mar 2010)
Don’t say it (Apr 2010)
Given enough time . . . (Aug 2010)


b. Right to Life
How best defend life? (Sept 2004)
On abortion as an issue of natural law (Dec 2007)
Reasons why I cannot become involved in the prolife movement (2007)

4. Other issues of the day
The swim-meet (Feb 2010)
Mr. Stupak’s gift (Mar 2010)
Prisons (Mar 2010)
Paying for therapy (Apr 2010)
Plagiarism (Aug 2010)
Politics (Oct 2010)
The Sisters of St. Mary’s (Dec 2010)

5. Personal spirituality
Reflections on the Vowed Life (July 2004)
Why I will not "say Mass" in Latin (Dec 2007)
The Rosary (Jan 2010)
A Way to read the Bible (April 2010)
The Actual Scripture List

6. Homilies
Thoughts on the Trinity (Trinity Sunday, 2009)
An Easter homily (Apr 2010)
Violence (May 2010)
An unfinished universe (July 2010)

My blog: http://ivyrosary.blogspot.com

Contact me at: friarzimm@gmail.com

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