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On Sunday, Jan. 25, the day after Alex Pretti was killed by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, spoke against continued funding for ICE, encouraging people to call their legislators and “ask them for the love of God and the love of human beings, which can’t be separated, [to] vote against renewing funding for such a lawless organization.”
Monday, January 26, 2026
Authors Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi highlight that the Bible includes stories from many voices across different times and cultures:
When considering the Bible, it’s important to keep in mind that it is a multivocal text. To be multivocal simply means that something is composed of many different voices or perspectives. The books that make up the Bible, and the texts that were edited together to make up the books of the Bible, were written in different times, in different places, by different people, in different genres, with different theologies. These differences are easy to recognize when you know to look for them. The voice of a tenth-century BCE court history, for instance, is different from the voice of a sixth-century BCE piece of wisdom literature, which is also different from the voice of a late first-century CE gospel. Just as a quilt is made of many different sections, or an anthology is made of many different essays, the Bible is a collection of independent things. [1]
Ireland may be the only country in the world to have a former president who has a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Mary McAleese—the social activist, lawyer and journalist who served as the president of Ireland from 1997 to 2011—pursued and received her doctorate in her (very active) retirement.
She completed her studies in 2018 but had already published a well-received treatment of the role of collegiality and power-sharing within the church in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. Her most recent book arises from her doctoral research and considers the implications of canon law for children. And it was this topic that she addressed earlier this month in a prominent weekend op-ed in Ireland’s paper of record, the Irish Times. Inciting considerable comment, she argues that baptizing babies “restricts” their human rights.
Those who have “drifted” but still value the teachings that shaped us need to start being the body of Christ we wish to see.
