At the convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America earlier this month, the Society’s John Courtney Murray award was given to my Carleton teacher, moral theologian Anne Patrick, SNJM. When Anne told me she was to...
Read MoreOur own Meghan Clark has already clearly and brilliantly detailed the feminist problems with New York Governor Cuomo’s so-called Women’s Equity Act (WEA). The bill tried to pass late term abortion expansion by...
Read MoreThis post is part of the series on the Faith of Theologians. Read the introduction to the series here. To talk about one’s faith is more difficult than one would think. Faith, though deeply personal, is not at all private. I...
Read MoreAt this year’s meeting of the College Theology Society, among many other helpful sessions, there was an open forum in which theologians were placed into groups (I had not met anyone in my group before the session) and were asked...
Read MoreSo far it has not received much media attention, being drowned out by the various scandals swirling around the Obama administration, but in May the California Assembly passed a bill, AB-460, requiring insurance companies to...
Read MoreLast week the US Bishops met in San Diego for their annual spring assembly. On Monday June 10th, just prior to their formal meeting, the Committee on Doctrine organized an academic workshop on the principle of cooperation. In...
Read MoreHaving spent my first two years of teaching at Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN), I can personally attest to the way in which the College successfully fosters the voices and gifts of young women in an environment that is...
Read MoreI first wrote about Carie Charlesworth’s story here. Carie’s teaching contract at Holy Trinity Catholic School was not renewed for the 2013-2014 academic year because Carie is the victim of domestic abuse. I find this to be a...
Read MoreLectionary 96 Zec 12:10-11; 13:1 Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Gal 3:26-29 Lk 9:18-24 The prosperity gospel, popularized by preachers like Joel Osteen and Bruce Wilkinson, teaches that Christianity is the ticket to physical health and...
Read MoreThe field of bioethics is a little poorer this week as it mourns the death of Edmund Pellegrino, MD who died on June 13th at the age of 92. Dr. Pellegrino served as the president of the Catholic University of America from 1978...
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