This Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, following immediately in the wake of the great feast of Pentecost which we celebrated last week. We now find ourselves at an endpoint of sorts in the liturgical year, which follows the structure of the New Testament narrative, first commemorating the incarnation and life of Christ before turning to the Paschal Read more
Human Acts (Part Three, Chapter One, Section One, Article Four) Human actions are crucial for any moral theology because it is through a human being’s free actions (and free actions = human actions, properly understood) that human beings are moral beings. As St. Thomas says in the prologue to the second part of his Summa Theologiae, theology’s primary interest in a human Read more
The origins of Memorial Day date to the years immediately following the American Civil War when Americans honored the war dead of the North and the South by placing flowers on their tombstones. (The original name of the holiday was Decoration Day.) Despite the fact that the northern and southern states commemorated their war dead on separate days until World War I, Read more
When President Obama made public his support for same sex marriage, he spoke of conversations with his daughters and about interactions with staff members and friends who are in same sex relationships. Like the President, many Catholics (who support same sex marriage in growing numbers), are finding that their experience leads them to affirm the goodness of same sex unions and to Read more
(A guest post from Kelly Johnson, associate professor in the theology department at University of Dayton. Kelly would like to thank Todd Whitmore, Jana Bennett, and David Cloutier for helpful conversations on the topic.) In recent elections, the Catholic vote has closely mirrored the nation’s vote. That is to say, Catholic voting as an aggregate has not had a significant effect on Read more
(As I wrote this post, I imagined as my interlocutor the many people who have said to me, online or in person, things like, “Boy, you Catholics are on a roll with the pelvic issues. Time to move on.”) You think it’s all about sex… that the freedom to have sex when we want, with whom we want, and as often as Read more
According to a Gallup Poll released on Wednesday, a strikingly low number of Americans–now down to only 41%–describe themselves as pro-choice. To put it in perspective, this number was at 56% in 1996. Frustratingly for those who wish to talk about the issues of “abortion and same sex marriage” as if they are a monolith, support for abortion choice is energetically moving Read more
The debate the Catholic Church in particular and our society in general should be having concerning whether two persons in love with one another and who possess a homosexual orientation should marry was, for a brief, shining moment had in the pages of America Magazine eight years ago. (I reject the phrase “homosexual person” or “gay person” in favor of my admittedly inelegant description because those two Read more
Courtesy of Meghan Clark – Thanks, Meg! Acts 2: 1-11 Ps 104:1, 24,29-30,31,34 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25 Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 My notion of Pentecost was forever changed eight years ago when I meandered my way through the Collection of Modern Religious Art in the Vatican Museum in Rome. As I entered one large room, I Read more
David Cloutier’s post on the legalization of civil marriage for same sex couples rightly raises the question of whether opposition to civil marriage for same sex couples can be grounded by reasons that are both intelligible and accessible to people who do not share Christian theological beliefs. The paucity of such arguments in the public square, and my own experience (similar to Read more
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
