Subscribe to News updatesThe following is a guest post by Holly Taylor Coolman, Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College and mother to three. Last week, the Huffington Post offered readers an essay similar to several publications in recent years, in which mothers and fathers describe with candor the frustrations of parenting. For this father, writing anonymously, the situation looms in the near future: his wife Read more
Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. Neither party perfectly represents Catholic beliefs. Or, if you prefer, the Catholic Church fails to represent either party’s beliefs. So, if you are seriously involved in Read more
Just wanted to alert our readers that I have written a response to America Magazine’s new article “Just Economics” by Dr. Stacie Beck. In which I conclude: If Beck is right, then the entire project of Catholic social thought is faulty. Her argument begins with a particular set of economic assumptions as foundational and not with the understanding of the human person. Read more
The New Evangelization might just look like this: 7 priests on barstools at a Dave and Buster’s in Providence, Rhode Island, talking with a (sold out) crowd of 150 young adults about the faith we share. The event called “Grill the Priests” was sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry of the Diocese of Providence (and perhaps others). Attendees were encouraged to bring Read more
On April 23 at a university public debate in Belgium entitled “Blasphemy: Offense or Freedom of Self-Expression,” four topless protesters from the FEMEN movement attacked Archbishop Andre Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels for his alleged homophobia. Not only did the women disrupt the event, but they also soaked the archbishop with water. In a Facebook message, FEMEN members demanded the dismissal of the archbishop Read more
I’ve been on the search for a school for my soon-to-be-school age kids in recent weeks. Kindergarten, I have come to find out (as have many parents before me), is not at all like what I did when I was five. There are no half-day classes filled with painting and planting seeds to see what comes up and coloring pictures about fall Read more
Guest Post by Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics at Fordham University. Satire has been a salve for many Americans in the past week. Witness The Onion’s rapidly re-tweeted article,“Jesus, This Week,” which suggested that “Maybe next time we have a week, they can try not to pack it completely to the fucking brim with explosions, mutilations, death, Read more
It has been quite a week in Boston: explosions, deaths, maimings, and other injuries at the marathon; acts of heroism and pulling together in the mayhem that followed; an interfaith service that included a visit from President Obama; a crowdsourced manhunt; a bizarre night of robberies, killings, and shootouts; an even stranger day of a city on lockdown and a door-to-door manhunt Read more
Is there a way to give an account of phone gluttony? I have long thought we Catholics don’t pay nearly enough time to thinking through the moral importance of technology use, despite the clear injunctions in Pope John Paul II’s encyclicals warning of the dangers of “superdevelopment,” and the rapid multiplication of “needs” in wealthy societies. Technologies very powerfully shape both habits Read more
Strange times for marriage, huh? Two cases regarding the legal recognition of gay marriage are before the Supreme Court. Princeton alumna Susan Patton told women at Princeton to spend their time finding a mate. While some were outraged, most saw it as a candid (perhaps too candid) admission that marriage is about securing economic status and marriage to an ivy leaguer furthers Read more
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Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
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Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
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