The Church after DOMA
I was recently asked to provide a guest post at “There is Power in the Blog,” associated with the Political Theology journal. I wanted to take some time to reflect on the cultural changes that yesterday’s...
Read MoreThirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – The Tensions of Discipleship
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2013 1 Kgs 19:16b,19-21; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-8,9-10,11; 2 Gal 5:1,13-18; Lk 9:51-62 What is the nature of a Christian’s moral obligation to her family? It’s a complex question to be sure,...
Read MoreA Tale of Two Choices….
In the kind of confluence that happens on Facebook sometimes, two friends posted articles about choice and abortion yesterday. The first was a blog post from the New York Times about “forced fatherhood”, written a...
Read MoreAnne Patrick Wins CTSA Award
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 MoreLate-Term Abortion Expansion Defeated in New York State…Thanks to Pro-Life Democrats
Our 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 MoreJourneying in Faith from Family Foundations
This 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 MoreThe Faith of Theologians: Introducing a New Series
At 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 MoreCalifornia’s AB-460: Same-Sex Relationships and Infertility
So 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 MoreThe HHS Controversy and the Principle of Cooperation at the US Bishops Meeting in San Diego
Last 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 MoreProphetic Conversations: A Review
Having 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...
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